Exam 28: The Affluent Society

In his farewell address to the nation, President Dwight Eisenhower warned against the dangers of

During the 1950s, the general economic conditions of the United States included

What factors account for the broad-based and rapid progress of science and technology following World War II? Why did this progress not occur sooner?

All of the following were factors in rising poverty rates in inner cities in the 1950s, EXCEPT

The Eisenhower administration responded to Fidel Castro's coming to power in Cuba by

The central character in JD. Salinger's 1951 book, The Catcher in the Rye, was the alienated prep-school student ________..

How did the Eisenhower administration criticize Truman's foreign policy? How did Eisenhower's foreign policy differ from Truman's? How and why was it similar?

Michael Harrington's 1962 book, The Other America, focused on the problems of

In 1957, the effort to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, required

During the Montgomery bus boycott, Martin Luther King Jr. made his first appearance on the national scene, and soon founded the Southern ________ Conference.

All the following statements regarding the use of DDT are true EXCEPT that

By the late 1950s, the United States could send a guided missile several thousand miles.

The first American to be launched into space, in 1961, was

The work of Jonas Salk and ________ helped to virtually eliminate polio from much of the world by the early 1960s.

The Eisenhower administration is responsible for the largest public works project in American history.

In 1946, Dr. Benjamin Spock's best-selling Baby and Child Care contended that

While radio made an enormous contribution to the popularity of rock music in the 1950s, television tended to limit its appeal.

President Eisenhower's secretary of defense, Charles Wilson, stated his belief that "what was good for ________ was good for the country."

Early missile research in the United States was conducted almost entirely by the Air Force.

Strong local opposition by southern whites to the Supreme Court's ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka became known as "________."