Exam 28: The Affluent Society

During the 1950s,the popularity in the United States of suburban living was partly explained by

The Montgomery bus boycott of 1955-1956 was essentially successful.

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

Who were the leading domestic critics of the America of the 1950s? What were their major criticisms?

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?

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

The popular "beat" novel On the Road (1957)was written by

In the 1950s,advertisers played an enormously important role in television programming.

Relations between the United States and the Soviet Union worsened during and after a failed revolution in ________,where Soviet tanks and troops crushed the uprising and restored a pro-Soviet regime.

In 1954,the Eisenhower administration ordered the CIA to help overthrow the government of

In the early twentieth century,the vaccine that raised the most safety concerns in the United States was for the prevention of

To the "beat" writers,American society in the 1950s was sterile and meaningless.

Until the early 1950s,the country the United States assisted in trying to control Vietnam was

The prosperity of the 1950s occurred with relatively low inflation.

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

In 1955,the labor unions AFL and ________ merged.

Factors in the rise of the civil rights movement included

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

The rise of rock musicians such as Elvis Presley is an example of the limited willingness of white audiences at the time to accept black musicians.

Like many early white rock musicians,Elvis Presley drew heavily from black traditions in