Chapter 26 Quiz

Which of the following describes the famous kitchen debate of 1959?

It settled no greater political purpose, but it revealed the commercialism of the

postwar American dream.

Which of the following statements describes post-World War II America?

Americans enjoyed the highest standard of living in the world.

Which of the following statements is true about the post-World War II U.S. economy?

American prosperity was beyond the reach of many poor and nonwhite

Americans.

The term Pax Americana refers to

American domination of the global economy after World War II.

Which of the following elements was part of the Bretton Woods system?

A limiting of American capital

Which of the following phenomena served as an engine of postwar economic growth?

Spending on national security

When Eisenhower said, "We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence,

whether sought or unsought," he was referring to the

military-industrial complex.

During the 1950s, military spending amounted to what percentage of U.S. gross national

product?

10 percent

The space race began after

Americans learned that the Soviet Union had launched the first space satellite.

Which of the following was the predominant tendency in business during the twenty years

following World War II?

The consolidation of economic power into big corporate firms

Which of the following job categories grew explosively in the United States in the 1950s and

came to symbolize the era?

White-collar managers

David Reisman's The Lonely Crowd and William Whyte's The Organization Man recognized

the dilemma of

the managerial class.

The Affluent Society (1958) was one of the most influential books about the U.S. economy in

the twentieth century because it

argued that the poor had been neglected by economists and politicians.

Michael Harrington's 1962 book The Other America exposed

poverty in America.

Which of the following economic statistics represented the U.S. economy in the post-World

War II period?

Between 1947 and 1975, the productivity of America's workers more than

doubled.

Which of the following describes the economic changes taking place in the United States during

the 1950s?

Consumption came to be seen as a social responsibility.

The GI Bill (1944) stimulated the American economy by

subsidizing higher education and financing millions of mortgages.

The broadly based postwar labor-management accord brought

a general acceptance of collective bargaining.

Which of the following phenomena served as a major engine for consumption in the United

States during the 1950s?

The baby boom

Which of the following statements describes television in the United States during the late

1940s and 1950s?

It transformed American culture as much as the automobile had in the 1920s.

Which of the following was a popular television program of the 1950s that depicted American

working-class lives?

The Honeymooners

The ideal family, as presented in the media of the 1950s, with a stay-at-home mom and a

father as the breadwinner, was

not representative of diverse American culture.

Which of the following describes Alan Freed, who made his mark on American culture in the

1950s?

His Cleveland radio show introduced white America to black music.

Record sales boomed in the United States during the 1950s because of

the emergence of rock 'n' roll as a popular new musical genre.

Elvis Presley, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Charlie Parker were all associated with

cultural rebellion.

The Beat generation of the 1950s rejected

political activism.

The great resurgence of evangelical religion in 1950s America was most evident in the dramatic

rise in popularity of

Billy Graham.

In the 1950s, evangelist Norman Vincent Peale preached

the therapeutic use of religion.

Between 1940 and 1960, church membership in the United States

rose to 70 percent.

Which of the following statements characterizes the pressure felt by middle-class American

women during the 1950s?

Cultural messages indicated that domesticity should be women's highest priority.

Which of the following was an impetus for the post-World War II baby boom?

The declining average age of marriage for women and men

Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin are both associated with

the polio vaccine.

Which of the following statements describes women and their relationship to work and family

life in the postwar decades?

Most "women's jobs" were in teaching, nursing, or the service sector.

How did middle-class wives and mothers seek to justify their work outside the home in the

1950s?

They explained their work in family-oriented terms and maintained their domestic

responsibilities.

Which of the following exemplified the sexual conservatism that characterized the period from

1945 to the mid-1960s?

College women had curfews and needed permission to entertain male visitors.

Which of the following pairs are correctly matched?

Hugh Hefner—founder of Playboy magazine

The Daughters of Bilitis was a women's organization founded in 1955 that sought

greater visibility for and acceptance of lesbians in the United States.

How did homophile activists challenge the prejudicial attitudes of most Americans toward gay

men and lesbians in the 1950s?

They avoided gay bars and nightclubs and dressed in modest, conservative

clothing.

Which of the following statements characterizes the innovations in housing construction

pioneered by William Levitt after World War II?

His company pioneered the application of mass-production techniques to home

construction.

Which of the following became a symbol of the postwar housing boom in the United States?

Levittown

Which of the following characterizes many of the newly built suburban communities in the

1950s?

They were generally homogeneous in their population.

The term restrictive covenants refers to

prohibitions on black residents in some communities.

An unexpected result of building the interstate highway system was that it

precipitated the decay of American urban areas.

Which of the following factors spurred congressional approval of the Interstate Highway Act?

The Cold War

Which of the following factors precipitated the urban crisis of the 1950s and 1960s?

The flight of white urban residents to the suburbs

Which of the following describes the urban renewal projects that took place in U.S. cities in

the 1950s?

Urban renewal efforts coincided with an increase in cities' black, Latino, and

Native American populations.

Immigration policy in the 1950s led to

the legal resumption of Asian immigration.

Which of the following statements accurately characterizes U.S. immigration laws between

World War II and the mid-1960s?

In 1952, the McCarran-Walter Act ended the exclusion of immigrants from China,

Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia.

In the 1950s, most Puerto Rican immigrants settled in

New York City.

Beginning in the 1960s, the influx of Cuban refugees rapidly changed the character of

Miami.