chapter 28

The Beats took their name because of their pervasive sense that society had beaten them, or triumphed over their spirits.

False

The postwar era witnessed economic depression and falling social contentment.

False

Which of the following is NOT true of the GI Bill?

Its huge cost did not justify its benefits.

In which state was the first Levittown located?

New York

The years after World War II witnessed a second Great Migration.

True

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.

One of rock and roll's most important contributions was to:

bridge class and racial divisions.

By the mid-1950s, an increasing number of workers:

did mental rather than physical labor.

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.

Life magazine's ideal woman of the mid-1950s was:

having babies.

In regard to New Deal programs, Eisenhower:

retained most programs and even expanded some.

In the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, decision, the Supreme Court:

struck down "separate but equal" in public education.

All of the following countries were physically devastated during World War II EXCEPT:

the United States.

Before becoming president, Eisenhower was most shaped by his experience in:

the military.

Most blacks who moved to the North were fleeing terrible poverty in:

the rural South.

By the 1950s, suburban life was marked by an increasing:

uniformity.

Houses in Levittown in the early 1950s all sold for just under:

$10,000.