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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

By and large, Truman's Fair Deal proposals

. were thwarted by a conservative coalition in Congress

The United States experienced a shock in 1949 when Communists took over

China

Alan Freed was a notable

DJ

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

The secretary of state who devised the plan of massive economic recovery aid to Europe was

George Marshall

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

Its huge cost did not justify its benefits.

All of the following were original NATO members EXCEPT:

Japan

The African American writer who explored the theme of social alienation in Invisible Man was

Ralph Ellison

The person who benefited most from the outcome of the Hiss-Chambers case was

Richard Nixon

In 1954, all of the following were major TV shows EXCEPT

The Price Is Right

The second-place finisher in the 1948 election was

Thomas Dewey

The 1948 election is probably best remembered for

Truman's upset victory

UN forces reaching the Yalu River brought about

a massive Chinese intervention

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

a white suburban housewife

During the 1948 presidential campaign, Truman endorsed all of the following EXCEPT:

abolishing Social Security

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

With the end of World War II, Korea

became divided into northern and southern halves

In regard to Israel's founding in 1948, the United States

became the first country to recognize the Jewish state

President Truman vetoed the McCarran Internal Security Act:

because he felt it promoted thought control

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

One of Truman's great strengths as he assumed the presidency was his

decisive character

On the domestic front, President Truman soon made clear his intention to:

enlarge the New Deal

Many critics of American life in the 1950s believed that middle-class society suffered from

excessive conformity

Senator McCarthy was very effective in

exploiting public fears

The youthful rebels known as the Beats

favored road trips, Buddhism, and jazz

Truman fired MacArthur

for insubordination

With the end of World War II, women workers were encouraged to:

give up their jobs to returning veterans

All of the following are true of Harry Truman EXCEPT that he

had an Ivy League education

A major economic problem President Truman faced immediately after the war was

high rates of inflation

In the 1948 campaign, the Dixiecrats did all of the following EXCEPT:

influence Truman to slow down on civil rights

Truman's response to the Soviet blockade of West Berlin in 1948 was to:

launch a massive airlift of supplies into West Berlin

Suburban growth was spurred by all of the following EXCEPT:

new construction of mass public transportation

Blacks who moved to northern cities found

new problems and forms of exploitation

The Soviet acquisition of the atomic bomb in 1949 inspired Truman to

order the development of a hydrogen bomb

The GI Bill did all of the following EXCEPT

pay veterans large bonuses to remain in the military

In the Truman years, the United States abandoned a longtime tradition with its involvement in

peacetime alliances

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

The Yalta pledges of democratic elections in Eastern Europe:

proved to be meaningless

One major reason that World War II inspired postwar changes in race relations was the:

racist nature of the enemies of the United States

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

The baby boom:

started in 1946

When confronted with strikes in the coal and railroad industries in 1946, President Truman's response was to

temporarily seize those industries

When North Korea attacked South Korea, Truman concluded

that Stalin and the Soviets were behind it

All of the following were established by the National Security Act of 1947 EXCEPT

the Department of Homeland Security

One sign of the times came in 1954 when Congress added the words "under God" to:

the Pledge of Allegiance

In 1947, President Truman took actions to banish Communists from

the federal government

In 1948, President Truman desegregated

the military

Most blacks who moved to Chicago were fleeing terrible poverty in:

the rural South

By the mid-1950s, most workers

were white collar

During the 1950s, the income gap between whites and blacks:

widened


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