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Ch. 16 Postwar America (45' through the 50s)
Ch. 16 Postwar America (45' through the 50s)
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The Cold War wasn't the only thing happening.
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Chain businesses such as fast food restaurants and gas stations...
all owned by the government
non profit organizations
are franchise businesses
the yeti's favorite hiding place
2
Up tempo music played on electric instruments that gained huge popularity in the 50s was called
hip hop
bluegrass
rock-n-roll
jazz
3
Occupations that require manual labor are commonly referred to as...
blue collar
red collar
green collar
white collar
4
The cultural differences between children and their parents is commonly called the...
generation lag
generation skip
generation gap
generation leap
5
Which law(s) state that being hired should not hinge on the membership to a union...
Miranda laws
Sherman Anti-trust Act
Right-to-work laws
the New Deal laws
6
How did Truman, the underdog, win the election in 48'?
Truman blamed Congress for his low approval rating.
States Rights Party steals republican votes
E.T. phoned home and convinced his squad to vote
Truman gave over 200 speeches in the last months of campaign
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Building stuff in 'inner-cities' to try and revitalize the area are sometimes called...
urban center projects
urban renewal projects
urban reconstruction projects
urban rejuvenation projects
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The name coined for the writers & artists in the 50s that criticized cultural conformity was...
the Rollers
the Stones
the Beatniks
the Hippies
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The 'marker' that the gov't uses to determine what the lowest socio-economic class
makes
poverty line
welfare rank
settlement score
poverty poll
10
How did Eisenhower improve American transportation?
passing the Federal Highway Act
passing the Federal Transportation Act
funding a bullet-train
gov't funded automobiles
11
Occupations that do not require manual labor and more service based are commonly referred to as
green collar
blue collar
pink collar
white collar
12
The marked increase in American birthrates in the years following the end of WWII is called...
the 'infant explosion'
the 'great baby increase'
the 'baby boom'
the 'toddler takeoff'
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A company that has overseas investments is called...
bilateral corporation
tri-national corporation
multinational corporation
unilateral corporation
14
What caused many American 'inner-cities' to decline in the 1950s?
wealth moved to the suburbs
taxes & business went to the suburbs
lowest socio-economic class left behind
the highways made travel easier
15
Who won the presidential election in the U.S.A. in 1948?
Kennedy
Nixon
Eisenhower
Truman
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Republicans are stereotypically...
conservative.
liberal.
17
TV and radio contributed to a new large collective way of life known as...
mass conformity
mass production
mass on Sundays
mass culture
18
Who won the presidential election in 1952?
Nixon
Truman
Eisenhower
Kennedy
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Eisenhower balancing economic conservativism with some activism in other areas was called...
'typical conservatism'
'stagnant conservatism'
'dynamic conservatism'
'national conservatism'
20
Crime committed by the youth is known as...
juvenile generation gap
termination policy
youth delinquency
juvenile delinquency
21
Factories in which you had to be in a union in order to be hired are said to be...
work shops
open shops
closed shops
revolving door shops
22
Veterans returning home have access to home, student, and business loans through the...
Homestead Act
Federal Highway Act
GI Bill of Rights Act
Selective Service Act
23
Which political party was Eisenhower in?
Fascist
Republican
Communist
Democrat
24
Demobilization in post-war America meant...
increasing the number of deployed military personnel
changing factories from wartime to peacetime production
changing factories from peacetime to wartime production
decreasing the number of deployed military personnel
25
Airline prices dropped in the 1950s because...
better construction materials
the atmospheric force field was turned off
improved jet engines
the mafia gained control of airports
26
Federal gov't not recognizing Native American tribes as legal groups to force assimilation was
the termination policy
the native law
the reservation policy
the indigenous code
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Truman's policies programs were referred to as the...
Deal or No Deal
Fair Deal
New Deal
Square Deal