Ch. 30 The 1950's
The First Indochina War ended when the French suffered a major defeat at:
Dien Bien Phu
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
Which of the following is NOT true of the GI Bill?
Its huge cost did not justify its benefits.
The location of William Levitt's first suburban development was:
Long Island
The African American writer who explored the theme of social alienation in Invisible Man was:
Ralph Ellison
Life magazine's ideal woman of the mid-1950s was:
a white suburban housewife
Jackson Pollock pioneered the style of painting known as:
abstract expressionism
Dulles's policy of "brinksmanship" involved:
averting war through the threat of nuclear force
By 1960, about 65 percent of Americans:
belonged to a church
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
In the postwar era, the trend in the corporate sector was toward:
consolidation and concentration
Alan Freed was a notable:
disc jockey
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles could be viewed as a sixteenth-century religious zealot in that he:
divided the world into forces of good and evil
Many critics of American life in the 1950s believed that middle-class society suffered from:
excessive conformity
The Reverend Norman Vincent Peale emphasized:
faith, enthusiasm, and joy
The youthful rebels known as the Beats:
favored road trips, Buddhism, and jazz
With the end of World War II, women workers were encouraged to:
give up their jobs to returning veterans
During the 1950s, novelist John Updike observed:
he and other writers felt estranged "from a government that extolled business and mediocrity"
Ultimately, the Beats:
helped inspire the youth revolt of the 1960s
Two decades after 1940:
life expectancy for nonwhites rose ten years and black wage earnings increased fourfold
Before becoming president, Eisenhower was most shaped by his experience in:
military
Blacks who moved to northern cities found:
new problems and forms of exploitation
In The Affluent Society, John Kenneth Galbraith pointed out the:
persistence of poverty
A very important reason for passage of the GI Bill was to:
prevent the return of the Depression
After the war, Americans were most eager to:
purchase
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
Between 1945 and 1960, home ownership:
significantly increased
The baby boom:
started in 1946
In the Brown decision, the Supreme Court:
struck down "separate but equal" in public education
Elvis was especially controversial because of his:
suggestive gyrations on stage
One sign of the times came in 1954 when Congress added the words "under God" to:
the Pledge of Allegiance
Senator Joseph McCarthy's power began to unravel when he made reckless charges about Communist influence in:
the U.S. Army
One major reason for religion's growing appeal in the 1950s was:
the desire to combat godless communism
Most blacks who moved to Chicago were fleeing terrible poverty in:
the rural South
The postwar era witnessed its most dramatic population growth in:
the sunbelt
By the 1950s, suburban life was marked by an increasing:
uniformity
The phenomenon of "white flight" in the 1950s:
was a major cause of the growth of the suburbs
By the mid-1950s, most workers:
were white collar
During the 1950s, the income gap between whites and blacks:
widened
Newsweek magazine discouraged women from even attending college when it proclaimed that:
"books and babies don't mix"
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