History test study guide
the postwar era, the trend in the corporate sector was toward:
Bigness and concentration Consolidation and concentration
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
Alan Freed was a notable:
Disc jockey
By the spring of 1945, the United States and Britain were becoming deeply concerned over Soviet actions in:
Eastern Europe
As a result of the Truman Doctrine
Greece and Turkey were less vulnerable to communism
All of the following were original NATO members EXCEPT:
Japan
In the Truman years, the United States abandoned a longtime tradition with its involvement in:
Peacetime alliances
When a black family tried to move into Levittown, the white residents greeted them by throwing rocks. In which state was this Levittown located?
Pennsylvania
The music Alan Freed labeled rock and roll was actually:
Rhythm and blues
The artist Jackson Pollock became notorious for:
Splattering paint onto canvases on the floor Abstract expressionism
The baby boom
Started in 1946
The postwar era witnessed its most dramatic population growth in:
The sunbelt
The 1948 election is probably best remembered for:
Truman's upset victory
UN forces reaching the Yalu River brought about:
a massive Chinese intervention.
During the 1948 presidential campaign, Truman endorsed all of the following EXCEPT:
abolishing Social Security.
The Korean War did all of the following EXCEPT
bring about major changes in boundaries
On the domestic front, President Truman soon made clear his intention to:
expand the New Deal
In 1948, President Truman desegregated
military
Truman viewed his victory as a mandate for:
moderate liberalism
The Soviet acquisition of the atomic bomb in 1949 inspired Truman to:
order the development of a hydrogen bomb
A very important reason for passage of the GI Bill was to
prevent the return of the Depression
The Yalta pledges of democratic elections in eastern Europe:
proved to be meaningless
After WWII, Americans were most eager to
purchase
One major reason that World War II inspired postwar changes in race relations was the:
racist nature of the enemies of the United States
When confronted with a railroad strike in 1946, President Truman's response was to
temporarily seize those industries
When North Korean Communists invaded South Korea:
the United Nations authorized military intervention against the aggressors.
Inch'on was the site:
where General MacArthur turned the war around with a surprise landing
