CH. 29-30
In The Crack in the Picture Window, John Keats described suburban life as
"Homogeneous, postwar Hell"
Houses in Levittown in the early 1950s all sold for just under
$6,900
The United States experienced a shock in 1949 when Communists took over
China
Adlai E. Stevenson was
Eisenhower's opponent for president in both 1952 and 1956
Since the nineteenth century, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia had been ruled by
France
All of the following were established by the National Security Act of 1947 EXCEPT
The Department of Homeland Security
The 1948 election is probably best remembered for
Truman's upset victory
Dulles's policy of "brinksmanship" involved
averting war through the threat of nuclear force
With the end of World War II, Korea
became divided into northern and southern halves
In regard to Israel's founding in 1948, the United States
became the first country to recognize the Jewish state
President Truman vetoed the McCarran Internal Security Act
because he felt it promoted thought control
While college enrollments soared in the postwar period
black veterans encountered barriers to entrance
Elvis Presley's recordings
blended a variety of musical styles
The postwar economic boom was fueled mainly by
cold war-related military spending
Truman fired MacArthur
for insubordination
With the end of World War II, women workers were encouraged to
give up their jobs to returning veterans
All of the following are true of Harry Truman EXCEPT that he
had an Ivy League education
In the 1948 campaign, the Dixiecrats did all of the following EXCEPT
influence Truman to slow down on Civil Rights
Truman's response to the Soviet blockade of West Berlin in 1948 was to
launch a massive airlift of supplies into West Berlin
The GI Bill did all of the following EXCEPT
pay veterans large bonuses to remain in the military
In the Truman years, the United States abandoned a longtime tradition with its involvement in
peacetime alliances
The Baby Boom
started in 1946
Most blacks who moved to Chicago were fleeing terrible poverty in
the rural south
By and large, Truman's Fair Deal proposals
were thwarted by a conservative coalition in Congress
Newsweek magazine discouraged women from even attending college when it proclaimed that
"books and babies don't mix"
The secretary of state who devised the plan of massive economic recovery aid to Europe was
George Marshall
Which of the following is NOT true of the GI Bill?
It's huge cost did not justify it's benefits
All of the following were original NATO members EXCEPT
Japan
Suburban growth was spurred by all of the following EXCEPT
New construction of mass public transportation
Blacks who moved to northern cities found
New problems and forms of exploitation
A very important reason for passage of the GI Bill was to
Prevent the return of the Depression
The African American writer who explored the theme of social alienation in Invisible Man was
Ralph Ellison
The person who benefited most from the outcome of the Hiss-Chambers case was
Richard Nixon
In 1954, all of the following were major TV shows EXCEPT
The Price Is Right
In 1948, President Truman desegregated
The military
One sign of the times came in 1954 when Congress added the words "under God" to
The pledge of the Allegiance
The second-place finisher in the 1948 election was
Thomas Dewey
UN forces reaching the Yalu River brought about
a massive Chinese intervention
Life magazine's ideal woman of the mid-1950s was
a white suburban housewife
During the 1948 presidential campaign, Truman endorsed all of the following EXCEPT
abolishing social security
Jackson Pollock pioneered the style of painting known as
abstract expressionism
One of Truman's great strengths as he assumed the presidency was his
decisive character
Alan Freed was a notable
disc jockey
On the domestic front, President Truman soon made clear his intention to
enlarge the New Deal
Many critics of American life in the 1950s believed that middle-class society suffered from
excessive conformity
Senator McCarthy was very effective in
exploiting public fears
The youthful rebels known as the Beats
favored road trips, buddhism, and jazz
A major economic problem President Truman faced immediately after the war was
high rates of inflation
The Soviet acquisition of the atomic bomb in 1949 inspired Truman to
order the development of a hydrogen bomb
In The Affluent Society, John Kenneth Galbraith pointed out the
persistence of poverty
The Yalta pledges of democratic elections in Eastern Europe
proved to be meaningless
One major reason that World War II inspired postwar changes in race relations was the
racist nature of the enemies of the United States
In regard to the Rosenbergs, who had been convicted of atomic espionage, President Eisenhower
refused to halt their executions
In regard to New Deal programs, Eisenhower
retained most and even expanded some of them
The music Alan Freed labeled rock and roll was actually
rhythm and blues
When confronted with strikes in the coal and railroad industries in 1946, President Truman's response was to
temporarily seize those industries
When North Korea attacked South Korea, Truman concluded
that Stalin and the Soviets were behind it
In 1947, President Truman took actions to banish Communists from
the federal government
By the mid-1950s, most workers
were white collar
During the 1950s, the income gap between whites and blacks
widened
