DC US History Chapters 29-33

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

6,000,000

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

Children were not allowed until after 1963.

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.

In the election of 1952,

Eisenhower won five states in the outer South.

Following the Allied victory in Sicily,

Italy joined the Allies.

The author of Catcher in the Rye was

J. D. Salinger.

Dwight D. Eisenhower grew up in

Kansas.

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

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

V-E Day

celebrated the defeat of Germany.

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.

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

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

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 finally agreed to strike first

in North Africa.

The cost of World War II

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.

Automobile production in the 1950s

increased.

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

increasing federal expenditures for health care and low-income housing.

The new strategy used in the Pacific in 1943 was to

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

All of 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 II,

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.

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.

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.

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

the Far West.

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.

Joseph McCarthy

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

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.

The person usually credited with formulating the policy of containment was

George F. Kennan.

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

Greece and Turkey.

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

Japan

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

Mao Tse-tung.

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

Ralph Ellison.

In the presidential election of 1944,

Thomas Dewey was the Republican candidate.

The "W" in WAC stands for

Women's

The Baby Boom

a. peaked in 1957 b. was a large part of a 30 percent growth in American population between 1946 and 1964 c. paralleled a similar boom in consumer demand d. IS CORRECTLY REPRESENTED BY ALL OF THE ABOVE STATEMENTS

Harry Truman

a. replaced much of Roosevelt's cabinet soon after becoming president b. was seen at first simply as a "caretaker" president c. had been involved in the clothing business, among other things, before entering politics d. IS CORRECTLY REPRESENTED BY ALL THE ABOVE STATEMENTS

Native Americans supported the war by

a. serving in the armed forces b. working in defense-related industries c. becoming "code talkers" d. ALL OF THE ABOVE

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.

The French Vichy government

collaborated with the Germans.

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

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

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

psychological security and happiness.

According to Reinhold Neibuhr,

the popular religion of the 1950s 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 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 blockade of West Berlin, Truman

used a massive airlift to supply the city.

The "outer-directed" personality

valued popularity more than independence.

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.

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

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

The United States entered the Korean War

without a declaration of war by Congress.

All of the following were Beats except

George Meany.

The Beats

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

The "corporate character" of American life, as described in the chapter,

was an increasingly regimented conformity.

William Burroughs wrote

Naked Lunch.

The Japanese surrender

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

The Taft-Hartley Act

was generally a setback for labor.

Black participation in the armed forces

was mainly in segregated units.

Price controls

were phased out shortly after the war ended.

The Crack in the Picture Window

argued that suburbanites were living in a "homogeneous, 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.

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

prohibiting racial discrimination in defense work.

The domestic program Harry Truman sent to Congress in September 1945

proposed to continue and enlarge the New Deal.

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

racial discrimination in the hiring of federal employees was banned.

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

reductions in business investments.

East Germany was controlled after World War II by

the Soviet Union.

When the advancing Soviet front reached Poland in 1944,

the Soviets installed a puppet government.

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.

Willy Loman

was a character in Death of a Salesman.

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

Edward Hopper.

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

Jackson Pollock.

The term "brinkmanship" is associated with

John Foster Dulles.

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 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

Joseph McCarthy

accused George C. Marshall of disloyalty.