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The Lonely Crowd was written by

David Riesman

In the election of 1948

Democrats won majorities in both houses of Congress in addition to winning the White House

The term brinkmanship is associated with

John Foster Dulles

William Burroughs wrote

Naked Lunch

Joseph McCarthy

accused George C Marshall of disloyalty

The Japanese surrender

allowed the emperor to keep his throne under the authority of an Allied supreme commander

The Crack in the Picture Window

argued that suburbanites were living in a homogeneous postwar hell

Truman removed General Douglas MacArthur

because he openly criticized the president for not wanting to fight Red China

By the end of the Truman years, the United States had

become committed to a major and permanent national military establishment

The war in Korea

began in 1950 when North Korean forces invaded South Korea

According to Life magazine the proper role for women in the 1950s was

being a good mother and wife

the bracero program

brought some 200,000 Mexican farm workers into the western United States

V-E Day

celebrated the defeat of Germany

The French Vichy government

collaborated with the Germans

Eisenhower's domestic conservatism included all the following except

cutting support for the Interstate Highways

The purpose of the War production board was to

direct industrial conversion to war production

During the 1950s

economic safeguards from the New Deal assured most Americans

Following the election of 1948, Truman was able to push through congress

farm price supports, a public housing program and more money for the TVA and rural electrification

the Yalta Conference

gave the Soviet Union control of eastern Germany

In order to end the deadlock in the Korean peace talks, Eisenhower

hinted that the US might use atomic weapons

War relocation Camps

housed over 100,000 Japanese Americans during the war

President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill finally agreed to strike first

in North America

The cost of World War II

included some 50 million military and civilian dead

Automobile production in the 1950s

increased

The single biggest source of government financing for America's war effort was

increased federal taxes

The new strategy used in the Pacific in 1943 was to

isolate the Japanese strongholds, leaving them to die on the vine

All the following factors promoted the growth of suburbs except

laws forbidding residential segregation by races

President Roosevelt died

less than a month before the surrender of Germany

The Warren Court

limited several internal security measures

To ensure that the Soviet Union would join the war against Japan, Roosevelt in 1945

made certain agreements concerning Soviet territorial demands

Between 1945-1960 the Gross National Product

nearly doubled

In the first two months of American involvement in WWII

news from the Pacific was "all bad" according to President Roosevelt

In response to a proposed march on Washington in 1941, President Roosevelt issued an executive order

prohibiting racial discrimination in defense work

The domestic program that Harry Truman sent to Congress in September 1945

proposed to continue and enlarge the New Deal

The emphasis of the religious revival of the 1950s was on

psychological security and happiness

America's racial relations were transformed during the 1940s because

racial discrimination in the hiring of federal employees was banned

When Jewish leaders proclaimed the independent state of Israel in 1948 the United States

recognized the new state immediately

Native Americans supported the war by

serving in the armed forces; working in defense-related industries; becoming code talkers

Which of the following did not increase in the postwar years

substandard housing

Truman clashed with congressional Republicans over

tax cuts

Operation "Overlord" was

the D-Day invasion at Normandy

By 1950

the army had less than 10 percent of the number of men it had had at its peak in World War II.

Which of the following was not a major stimulant to the post-1945 economy

the movement of women into the workforce

The National Security Act was passed as a response to

the success of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor

When railroad workers staged a strike shortly after the end of the war, President Truman

threatened to draft strikers into the armed forces

The average American real income in 1955, compared to that of just before the crash of 1929 was

twice as much

In response to a Soviet blockage of West Berlin, Truman

used a massive airlift to supply the city

The Battle of Okinawa

was most significant for wearing down the remaining Japanese defenses

John Foster Dulles argued that the policy of containment

was needlessly defensive

The North Atlantic Treaty

was originally signed by twelve nations

The battle of Leyte Gulf

was the largest naval engagement in history

The development of the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima

was the responsibility of the Manhattan Project

The Battle of Midway

was the turning point of the war in the Pacific

The Robe and Exodus

were best-sellers in the 1950s

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

were executed for supposedly giving the Soviets the secret to the atomic bomb

The Beats

were like the abstract expressionists, motivated by a desire to liberate self-expression

Price controls

were phased out shortly after the war ended

The united states entered the Korean war

without a declaration of war by congress

By the end of WWII how many women had entered the work force

6,000,000

In the China tangle, the united states sent 2 billion in aid to fight

Mao Tse-tung

Which book argued that sustained economic growth would not in itself solve America's chronic social problems

The Affluent Society

Which of the following decreased in postwar years

The portion of income that Americans saved rather than spent

Which of the following statements about the postwar years is not true

The so-called Sunbelt became the most densely populated area

In the presidential election of 1944

Thomas Dewey was the Republican candidate

James F Byrnes

Was Truman's first secretary of state

The W in WAC stands for

Women's

The twenty-second amendment, the first ratified after WWII

limited presidents to two terms

Following their quick sweep across France, the Allies

lost momentum in the fall of 1944

The outer-directed personality

valued popularity more than independence

Willy Loman

was a character in Death of a Salesman

The corporate character of American life as described in this chapter

was an increasingly regimented conformity

Joseph McCarthy

was condemned by the Senate for contempt of that body

The Marshall Plan

was directed not against country or doctrine, but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos

The Taft-Hartley Act

was generally a setback for labor

Which of the following statements about the original Levittown is not true

Children were not allowed until after 1963

The baby boom

peaked in 1957; was a large part of a 30% growth in American population between 1946-1964; paralleled a similar boom in consumer demand

The national security council in 1950 recommended

rebuilding America's conventional military forces

Among the factors that cushioned the economic impact of demobilization after World War II were all the following except

reductions in business investments

Harry Truman

replaced much of Roosevelt's cabinet soon after becoming president; was seen at first simply as a caretaker president' had been involved in the clothing business, among other things, before entering politics

The area that experienced the fastest rate of urban growth during the war years was

the Far west

East Germany was controlled after WWII by

the Soviet Union

When the advancing Soviet front reached Poland in 1944

the Soviets installed a puppet government

Black participation in the armed forces

was mainly in segregated units

The McCarran Internal Security Act of 1950

was passed over Truman's veto

The American painter whose work showed isolated melancholy and anonymous individuals was

Edward Hopper

In the election of 1952

Eisenhower won 5 states in the outer south

The person usually credited with forming the policy of containment was

George F Kennan

All of the following were Bears except

George Meany

In its first application of the Truman Doctrine, Congress approved economic aid to

Greece and Turkey

Following the Allied victory in Sicily,

Italy joined the Allies

The author of Catcher in the Rye was

J.D. Salinger

Invisible Man the novel that developed the theme of loneliness from the black perspective was written by

Ralph Ellison

The fastest-growing new periodical in the 1950s was

TV Guide

The meeting of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin to plan an invasion of France and a simulataneous Soviet offensive took place in

Teheran

According to Reinhold Neibuhr

The popular religion of the 1950s was inadequate to cure the ills of society

A major proponent of the technique of action painting was

Jackson Pollock

Which of the following was not a permanent member of the Security Council of the United Nations

Japan

Dwight D Eisenhower grew up in

Kansas

According to David Riesman, Dr. Spock's book on childcare

encouraged parents to develop the gregarious talents of their children

Eisenhower's administration extended the reach of the New Deal through all the following except

increasing federal expenditures for health care and low-income housing