Question 1

MATCHING
Match each description with the item below.
-Harry Byrd

Accepted Answer

A) wrote Invisible Man 
B) wrote The Affluent Society 
C) advocated "massive resistance" to integration 
D) challenged bus segregation in Montgomery, Alabama 
E) wrote The Crack in the Picture Window
F)was a U-2 spy-plane pilot
G)proclaimed the creation of a Democratic Republic of Vietnam
H)was a suburban home builder
I)was an Arkansas governor
J)was a Supreme Court chief justice 
A) wrote Invisible Man 
B) wrote The Affluent Society 
C) advocated "massive resistance" to integration 
D) challenged bus segregation in Montgomery, Alabama 
E) wrote The Crack in the Picture Window
F)was a U-2 spy-plane pilot
G)proclaimed the creation of a Democratic Republic of Vietnam
H)was a suburban home builder
I)was an Arkansas governor
J)was a Supreme Court chief justice

Question 2

Between 1945 and 1960, home ownership:

Accepted Answer

A)  declined, due to the construction of cheap apartments 
B)  significantly increased 
C)  was hampered due to shortages of credit 
D)  became almost universal 
E)  was not as popular as government-provided public housing 
A)  declined, due to the construction of cheap apartments 
B)  significantly increased 
C)  was hampered due to shortages of credit 
D)  became almost universal 
E)  was not as popular as government-provided public housing

Question 3

Show briefly how playwrights, novelists, painters, and the Beats reacted to the corporate life.

Accepted Answer

Playwrights, novelists, painters, and th

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

A)  give up their jobs to returning veterans 
B)  work longer hours 
C)  limit family sizes 
D)  stay single 
E)  upgrade their job skills through technical training or college 
A)  give up their jobs to returning veterans 
B)  work longer hours 
C)  limit family sizes 
D)  stay single 
E)  upgrade their job skills through technical training or college

Question 5

The best salesman of this gospel of reassuring "good news" was the Reverend Norman Vincent Peale.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

Since the nineteenth century, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia had been ruled by:

Accepted Answer

A)  China 
B)  Japan 
C)  France 
D)  Great Britain 
E)  themselves 
A)  China 
B)  Japan 
C)  France 
D)  Great Britain 
E)  themselves

Question 7

The First Indochina War ended when the French suffered a major defeat at:

Accepted Answer

A)  Dien Bien Phu 
B)  Hanoi 
C)  Saigon 
D)  Taipei 
E)  Khe Sanh 
A)  Dien Bien Phu 
B)  Hanoi 
C)  Saigon 
D)  Taipei 
E)  Khe Sanh

Question 8

During the 1950s, the black population in the North decreased as a result of the Great Migration.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

Society's message to women in the 1950s was that they should strive to combine motherhood and professional careers.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

In The Affluent Society, John Kenneth Galbraith pointed out the:

Accepted Answer

A)  benefits of limited government 
B)  infallibility of the marketplace 
C)  persistence of poverty 
D)  economic value of the cold war 
E)  environmental costs of prosperity 
A)  benefits of limited government 
B)  infallibility of the marketplace 
C)  persistence of poverty 
D)  economic value of the cold war 
E)  environmental costs of prosperity

Question 11

The years during and after World War II witnessed tremendous growth in big business.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

By 1960, about 65 percent of Americans :

Accepted Answer

A)  read the Bible 
B)  prayed 
C)  believed in God 
D)  believed in evolution 
E)  belonged to a church 
A)  read the Bible 
B)  prayed 
C)  believed in God 
D)  believed in evolution 
E)  belonged to a church

Question 13

Trace the rise of youth culture in the 1950s.

Accepted Answer

The rise of youth culture in the 1950s c

Question 14

The phrase "In God We Trust" was added to coins and currency in the 1950s.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

During the fifties, the U.S. marriage rate:

Accepted Answer

A)  reached record lows 
B)  reached an all-time high 
C)  included same sex marriages 
D)  did not include interracial marriages 
E)  only reported recent marriages 
A)  reached record lows 
B)  reached an all-time high 
C)  included same sex marriages 
D)  did not include interracial marriages 
E)  only reported recent marriages

Question 16

All of the following countries were physically damaged during World War II EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

A)  Great Britain 
B)  France 
C)  Japan 
D)  the United States 
E)  Germany 
A)  Great Britain 
B)  France 
C)  Japan 
D)  the United States 
E)  Germany

Question 17

MATCHING
Match each description with the item below.
-Ralph Ellison

Accepted Answer

A) wrote Invisible Man 
B) wrote The Affluent Society 
C) advocated "massive resistance" to integration 
D) challenged bus segregation in Montgomery, Alabama 
E) wrote The Crack in the Picture Window
F)was a U-2 spy-plane pilot
G)proclaimed the creation of a Democratic Republic of Vietnam
H)was a suburban home builder
I)was an Arkansas governor
J)was a Supreme Court chief justice 
A) wrote Invisible Man 
B) wrote The Affluent Society 
C) advocated "massive resistance" to integration 
D) challenged bus segregation in Montgomery, Alabama 
E) wrote The Crack in the Picture Window
F)was a U-2 spy-plane pilot
G)proclaimed the creation of a Democratic Republic of Vietnam
H)was a suburban home builder
I)was an Arkansas governor
J)was a Supreme Court chief justice

Question 18

A very important reason for passage of the GI Bill was to:

Accepted Answer

A)  keep men in the military beyond their term of enlistment 
B)  spend surplus funds in the federal budget 
C)  help Roosevelt get reelected 
D)  prevent the return of the Depression 
E)  create a bureaucracy to administer it 
A)  keep men in the military beyond their term of enlistment 
B)  spend surplus funds in the federal budget 
C)  help Roosevelt get reelected 
D)  prevent the return of the Depression 
E)  create a bureaucracy to administer it

Question 19

MATCHING
Match each description with the item below.
-John Kenneth Galbraith

Accepted Answer

A) wrote Invisible Man 
B) wrote The Affluent Society 
C) advocated "massive resistance" to integration 
D) challenged bus segregation in Montgomery, Alabama 
E) wrote The Crack in the Picture Window
F)was a U-2 spy-plane pilot
G)proclaimed the creation of a Democratic Republic of Vietnam
H)was a suburban home builder
I)was an Arkansas governor
J)was a Supreme Court chief justice 
A) wrote Invisible Man 
B) wrote The Affluent Society 
C) advocated "massive resistance" to integration 
D) challenged bus segregation in Montgomery, Alabama 
E) wrote The Crack in the Picture Window
F)was a U-2 spy-plane pilot
G)proclaimed the creation of a Democratic Republic of Vietnam
H)was a suburban home builder
I)was an Arkansas governor
J)was a Supreme Court chief justice

Question 20

The postwar era witnessed its most dramatic population growth in:

Accepted Answer

A)  the sunbelt 
B)  the Midwest 
C)  rural areas 
D)  the Northeast 
E)  the Mississippi Valley 
A)  the sunbelt 
B)  the Midwest 
C)  rural areas 
D)  the Northeast 
E)  the Mississippi Valley

Exam 28: Cold War America, 1950-1959

MATCHING Match each description with the item below. -Harry Byrd

Between 1945 and 1960, home ownership:

Show briefly how playwrights, novelists, painters, and the Beats reacted to the corporate life.

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

The best salesman of this gospel of reassuring "good news" was the Reverend Norman Vincent Peale.

Since the nineteenth century, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia had been ruled by:

The First Indochina War ended when the French suffered a major defeat at:

During the 1950s, the black population in the North decreased as a result of the Great Migration.

Society's message to women in the 1950s was that they should strive to combine motherhood and professional careers.

In The Affluent Society, John Kenneth Galbraith pointed out the:

The years during and after World War II witnessed tremendous growth in big business.

By 1960, about 65 percent of Americans :

Trace the rise of youth culture in the 1950s.

The phrase "In God We Trust" was added to coins and currency in the 1950s.

During the fifties, the U.S. marriage rate:

All of the following countries were physically damaged during World War II EXCEPT:

MATCHING Match each description with the item below. -Ralph Ellison

A very important reason for passage of the GI Bill was to:

MATCHING Match each description with the item below. -John Kenneth Galbraith

The postwar era witnessed its most dramatic population growth in:

The Collision of Cultures

England’s Colonies

Colonial Ways of Life

From Colonies to States

The American Revolution, 1776-1783

Strengthening the New Nation

The Early Republic, 1800-1815

The Emergence of a Market Economy, 1815-1850

Nationalism and Sectionalism, 1815-1828

The Jacksonian Era, 1828-1840

The South, Slavery, and King Cotton, 1800-1860

Religion, Romanticism, and Reform, 1800-1860

Western Expansion, 1830-1848

The Gathering Storm, 1848-1860

The War of the Union, 1861-1865

The Era of Reconstruction 1865-1877

Business and Labor in the Industrial Era, 1860-1900

The New South and the New West, 1865-1900

Political Stalemate and Rural Revolt, 1865-1900

Seizing an American Empire, 1865-1913

The Progressive Era, 1890-1920

America and the Great War, 1914-1920

A Clash of Cultures, 1920-1929

The Reactionary Twenties

The Great Depression, 1929-1939

The Second World War, 1933-1945

The Cold War and the Fair Deal, 1945-1952

A New Frontier and a Great Society, 1960-1968

Rebellion and Reaction, 1960s and 1970s

Conservative Revival, 1977-1990

Twenty-first-century America, 1993-present

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