Exam 28: The Affluent Society

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

The 1955 "beat" poem "Howl" was written by ________.

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

Between 1945 and 1950,10 percent of all the new businesses in the United States began in Los Angeles.

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

In 1954,the American scientist Jonas Salk developed a vaccine for the prevention of

Since World War II,the developments in antibiotics have made bacterial infections one of the most successfully treated of all human illnesses.

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

Following World War II,American scientists made a critical contribution to the development of penicillin by

Michael Harrington's 1962 book,The Other America,dealt with the problem of ________ in America.

In the early 1960s,the basis of the American atomic weapons arsenal was the ________ missile.

Examine earlier periods of medical advancement covered in the text.Explain why the development of antibiotics was of such profound importance to medical science.

The most significant and largest public works project of the federal government under President Dwight Eisenhower involved

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

Given mounting American dependence on foreign oil,the Truman administration was reluctant to recognize the new state of Israel.

What were the various strategies used by supporters and opponents of desegregation?

In the 1950s,African American record producer Berry Gordy founded ________ in Detroit.

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

The Eisenhower administration used the CIA to put friendly governments in place in Iran and Egypt.

In the 1950s,Disney was able to effectively market entertainment as a tool to sell consumer goods.