AMH 2020: Quiz #12: Chapter 30
Newsweek magazine discouraged women from even attending college when it proclaimed that:
"books and babies don't mix"
Since the nineteenth century, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia had been ruled by:
France
Which of the following is NOT true of the GI Bill?
Its huge cost did not justify its benefits
While college enrollments soared in the postwar period:
black veterans encountered barriers to entrance
Elvis Presley's recordings:
blended a variety of musical styles
One of rock and roll's most important contributions was to:
bridge class and racial divisions
The postwar economic boom was fueled mainly by:
cold war-related military spending
By the mid-1950s, an increasing number of workers:
did mental rather than physical labor
Life magazine's ideal woman in the mid-1950s was:
having babies
Two decades after 1940:
life expectancy for nonwhites rose ten years, and black wage earnings increased fourfold
A very important reason for passage of the GI Bill was to:
prevent the return to the Depression
In regard to New Deal programs, Eisenhower:
retained most and even expanded some of them
The artist Jackson Pollock became notorious for:
spattering paint onto canvases on the floor
The baby boom:
started in 1946
In the Brown decision, the Supreme Court:
struck down "separate but equal" in public education
Senator Joseph McCarthy's power began to unravel when he made reckless charges about Communist influence in:
the U. S. Army
The most enduring novels of the postwar period featured:
the individual's struggle for survival amid the smothering forces of mass society
By the 1950s, suburban life was marked by an increasing:
uniformity
The nation's suburban population by 1970 was overwhelmingly:
white