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By the end of World War 2, how many women had entered the work force?

6,000,000

The Lonely Crowd was written by

David Riesman

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

Edward Hopper

In the election of 1952,

Eisenhower won five states in the outer South

The person usually credited with formulating the policy of containment was

George F. Kennan

All the following were Beats except

George Meany

Following the Allied victory in Sicily,

Italy joined the Allies.

The author of Catcher in the Rye was

J.D. Salinger

In the "China tangle," the United States sent $2 billion in aid to fight

Mao Tse-tung

William Burroughs wrote

Naked Lunch

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

Ralph Ellison

Which of the following statements about the postwar years in not true?

The so-called Sunbelt became the most densely populated area.

In the presidential election of 1944,

Thomas Dewey was the Republican candidate.

The "W" in WAC stands for

Women's

The War in Korea

began in 1950, when North Korean forces invaded South Korea.

According to Life magazine, the proper role for women the 1950's 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.

Automobile production in the 1950's

increased

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

Harry Truman

is correctly represented by all the above statements.

The baby boom

is correctly represented by all the above statements.

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 Twenty-second Amendment, the first ratified after World War 2,

limited presidents to two terms

The Warren Court

limited several internal security measures

Following their quick sweep across France, the Allies

lost momentum in the fall of 1944

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

made certain secret agreements concerning Soviet territorial demands.

Between 1945 and 1960, the Gross National Product (GNP)

nearly doubled

In the first two months of American involvement in World War 2,

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

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 revivals of the 1950's was on

psychological security and happiness.

According to Reinhold Neibuhr,

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

Which of the following decreased in the postwar years?

the portion of income that Americans saved (rather than spent)

When railroad workers stages 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 blockade of West Berlin, Truman

used a massive airlift to supply the city.

The "outer-directed" personality

valued popularity more than independence

Joseph McCarthy

was "condemned" by the Senate for contempt of that body

Black participation in the armed forces

was mainly in segregated units.

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 McCarran Internal Security Act of 1950

was passed over Truman's veto.

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 1950's

The United States entered the Korean War

without a declaration of war by Congress

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

Japan

The term "brinksmanship" is associated with

John Foster Dulles

Dwight D. Eisenhower grew up in

Kansas

The fastest-growing new periodical in the 1950's was

TV Guide

Joseph McCarthy

accused George C. Marshall of disloyalty.

The French Vichy government

collaborated with the Germans.

Eisenhower's "domestic conservatism" inculded 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 1950's,

economic safe guards from the New Deal assured most Americans

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

encouraged parents to develop the "gregarious" talents of their children

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

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.

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

Children were not allowed until after 1963.

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

Greece and Turkey

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

Teheran.

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

The Affluent Society

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

The movement of women into the workforce

The Crack in the Picture Window

argued that suburbanites were living in a "homogenous, postwar Hell"

Truman removed General Douglas MacArthur

because MacArthur 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.

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

hinted that the United States 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 Africa.

Price controls

were phased out shortly after the war ended

Which of the following did not increase in the postwar years?

substandard housings

Truman clashed with congressional Republicans over

tax cuts

Operation "Overlord" was

the D-Day invasion at Normandy.

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

the Far West.

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

In the election of 1948,

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

The Taft-Hartley Act

was generally a setback for labor

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

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

The Japanese surrender

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

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

prohibiting racial discrimination in defense work.

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

racial discrimination in the hiring of federal employees was banned.

The National Security Council in 1950 recommended

rebuilding America's conventional military forces.

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

recognized the new state immediately.

Among the factors that cushioned the economic impact of demobilization after World War 2 were all the following except

reductions in business investments.

East Germany was controlled after World War 2 by

the Soviet Union

When the advancing Soviet front reached Poland in 1944,

the Soviets installed a puppet government.

By 1950,

the army had less than 10 percent of the number of men it had had at its peak in World War 2

The National Security Act was passed as a response to

the success of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor

The Marshall Plan

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

James F. Byrnes

was Truman's first secretary of state

The Beats

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

A major proponent of the technique of "action painting"-- the artist trying to "literally be in the painting"-- was

Jackson Pollock

Native Americans Supported the War by

all of the above.

The cost of World War 2,

included some 50 million military and civilian dead.

Of the following, the single biggest source of government financing for America's war effort was

increased federal taxes.