Exam 28: The Affluent Society

Discuss the evolution of Eisenhower's dealings with the Soviet Union. Why did the Cold War persist? By the end of his presidency, had Eisenhower improved or worsened the Cold War?

By the late 1950s, the Remington Rand Company was the largest American maker of business computers.

What were the various technological advances brought together to develop the American space program in the late 1950s and the 1960s?

In his 1956 book on corporate America, The Organization Man, William Whyte Jr. contended

The Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

The number of women working outside the home declined between 1945 and 1960.

The first two people to walk on the surface of the moon were Neil Armstrong and ________.

The political decline of Senator Joseph McCarthy began when he investigated

The first American space satellite went into orbit shortly before the Soviet Union achieved the same feat.

The first significant public awareness of computers in the United States came during the

In the civil rights movement, the spirit of "massive resistance" is associated with the actions of

The first significant computer of the 1950s was the ________.

With highways, travel by automobile, truck, and bus was as fast or faster than by trains and contributed to the decline of

Economic growth was at its peak in the early 1950s, when military spending was at its highest.

Following World War II, the American economy

John Glenn was the first American launched into space.

All of the following statements regarding early television are true EXCEPT that

Fulgencio Batista came to power in Cuba with American help.

During the 1950s, the U.S. government's primary motive for the development of rocket and missile technology was

The primary goal of the American Apollo program was to