Exam 25: America at Midcentury, 1945-1960

The 1958 National Defense Education Act was passed in response to ___________________.

In Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the Supreme Court ruled that ________________.

Analyze the ways in which "whiteness" informed mass culture and the ways in which black culture affected white America in the 1950s.

Which of the following explanations of Truman's presidential victory in 1948 is correct?

The GI bill did not provide _____________.

The 1950 agreement known as the Treaty of Detroit between the United Auto Workers and General Motors was significant because ___________________.

During the 1950s, unionized blue-collar workers _____________________.

Many Americans accepted which of the following beliefs in the 1950s?

The Internal Security (McCarran) Act of 1950 __________________________.

One thing that the 1956 film Invasion of the Body Snatchers, William H. Whyte's The Organization Man, and J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye had in common was that they all _____________________.

If striking workers in an industry considered vital to national security refused a presidential order to return to work, Truman requested that Congress ______________________.

During the 1950s, most Americans who were poor ____________________.

With regard to school desegregation, President Eisenhower ____________________.

The Dixiecrats who attracted national attention in 1948 were __________________.

The target of Rosa Parks's protest in Montgomery, Alabama was the denial of the right of African Americans to _____________________.

The National Defense Education Act of 1958 _________________.

Discuss the factors that gave rise to the anticommunist hysteria in the United States after the Second World War. What were the consequences of this hysteria?

Which of the following is true of organized labor during the 1950s?

What made William Levitt famous?

What entity or event connects Richard Nixon, Alger Hiss, Julius Rosenberg, and Ethel Rosenberg?