history ch 24

As late as the 1990s, nearly 90 percent of suburban whites lived in communities with non-white populations of less than

1 percent

A leading voice of the Beats was

Allen Ginsberg

What was the landmark United States Supreme Court case decided on May 17, 1954, in which the Warren Court unanimously asserted that segregation in public education violated the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment?

Brown v. Board of Education

In the aftermath of Rosa Parks's arrest for refusing to give her bus seat to a white rider, a yearlong bus boycott took place in what city?

Montgomery, Alabama

The so called "kitchen debate" between Nixon and Khrushchev occurred in

Moscow, Russia

As families escaped their everyday lives for the "open road," this businessman franchised his business into approximately 700 McDonald's fast food stands built by 1964

Ray Kroc

Which was not part of the new "social contract" between organized labor and management in leading industries during the 1950s?

Unions sponsored "wildcat" strikes in an effort to discipline management

Which of the following was not a prominent feature of suburban married life during the 1950s?

a growing tendency of husbands and wives to share the roles of breadwinner and homemaker

Which of the following was not a significant trend in 1950s America?

a surge of student radicalism on college campuses

New York became the most prominent symbol of the postwar suburban boom; one-fifth of the population growth of the 1950s occurred there

false

The baby boom lasted until

mid 1960s

While most Americans saw the alliance of the Defense Department and private industry as a source of jobs and national security, Eisenhower felt it was a threat to democracy, calling this power the

military-industrial complex

One of the key advantages the Soviet Union held over the United States on a global scale was America's continuing issue of

segregation

The principal organization in the Southwest - the equivalent of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) - that challenged restrictions on housing and employment, as well as the segregation of Latino students, was named

the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)

What was the coalition of black ministers and civil rights activists that pressed for desegregation and was formed in 1955, and in whose organizing Martin Luther King Jr. took the lead?

the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

During the 1950s, the mass movement for civil rights found principal support among

the southern black church

As part of the expansive and dynamic growth of the American economy, in the twenty years after 1950, about 7 million white Americans left cities for the suburbs, nearly 3 million blacks moved from South to North, and half a million Puerto Ricans moved to the mainland.

true

By the end of the 1950s, almost 90 percent of American families owned television sets, average daily television viewing time was five hours, and television had proven itself the most effective advertising medium ever invented

true

During the 1950s, prominent psychologists insisted that women who were unhappy as housewives suffered from a failure to accept the "maternal instinct.

true

For all of America's successes, by 1960 more than one in five Americans lived in poverty

true

In 1960, women earned, on average, 60 percent of the income of men

true

In many ways, the economy and culture of the 1950s was dominated by the automobile

true

In the 1950s, the number of houses in the United States doubled; most were built in the suburbs

true

In the post-World War II United States, Americans' daily lives were transformed by the widespread use of televisions, air conditioning, dishwashers, long-distance telephone calls, and jet travel

true

Under this kind of program, cities demolished poor neighborhoods in city centers that occupied potentially valuable real estate; in its place were constructed retail centers and all-white middle-income housing complexes

urban renewal