AQA A Level History: The American Dream: Statistics

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Age of John F Kennedy when he ran for president in 1960

3,500

Number of deaths in the 1965 Watts Riots

$3.2 billion

Amount of money that the French had to repay America after WW2

33 million

Number of Americans that owned a radio in 1945

250,000

- Number of troops in Diêm's army in 1963

- Number of people who were fed by the Food Stamp Programme

- Number of US troops in Vietnam in 1966

5,000 per month

US army draft figures in 1965

33%

Estimated proportion of Americans living in poverty in 1949

22%

Truman's approval rating in February 1952

625

Number of activists who were arrested in the 1967 anti-war rally in Washington

Almost 50%

Proportion of American families which were getting divorced by 1980

Grade 8

The average grade reached by Americans in 1941

57%

The estimated proportion of black housing which was of sub-standard quality in 1960

5

The number of black federal judges created by Kennedy

$178

The fine which was offered to Martin Luther King Jr after he was arrested in Albany in 1963

6.8%

Unemployment at the beginning of Kennedy's presidency

2.1 million

Number of cars sold to Americans in 1946

320,000

Number of Asian-Americans in the USA in 1945

$31 billion

Amount of money that Great Britain had to repay America after WW2

36%

Percentage of females in the US workforce in 1944

100,000

- Number of black applicants for the education grant via the GI Bill

- Amount of new homes built under Kennedy

6'3''

Height of Lyndon B Johnson

70%

- Roosevelts approval rating at the time of his death

- Johnson's approval rating in 1965

- Percentage of Johnson's mourners who were black

- Percentage of jobs created in the 1970s which were low-paying and industrial

40%

- The amount at which per capita income had increased by under Truman

- US national debt in 1968

4

Number of Southern States with less than 50% of black people registered to vote in 1966

1/3

Proportion of Kennedy's 'New Frontier' legislation with education aspects

0.17%

The percentage of the popular vote which separated Kennedy and Nixon in the 1960 presidential election

74 million

The number of Americans who believed Kennedy to have won the first televised presidential debate

>1000

Number of white students from the North that volunteered in the 1964 Civil Rights campaigns

5543

The amount of nuclear weapons the USA had stockpiled by 1957

6 weeks

The amount of time before voting day when the first ever televised debate was broadcast

$40 million

Amount of damage caused by the 1965 Watts Riots

40 million

Estimated number of poor American families in 1959

Johnson's approval rating in 1967

60.4%

US national debt in 1963

2 million

Number of Hispanic Americans in 1945

20,000

- Number of black soldiers who successfully received an education fund through the GI Bill

- Number of North Vietnamese troops that surrounded the Khe Sanh Base in 1968

$1.6 billion

Amount of money that China had to repay America after WW2

$14 billion

The annual rate of business investment in 1939

12 million

Number of US soldiers enrolled during WW2

8 million

The number of unemployed Americans in 1940

1 million

Number of people who attended Kennedy's funeral

7%

The percentage of the world's population that lived in America in 1945

70:30

The proportion of which Kennedy took the black vote in 1960

13

Number of freedom riders in the first freedom ride in 1961

7 years

The number of years lower life expectancy for black people in 1960 compared to white people

20%

- The increase in social security benefits under Kennedy

- Percentage of Americans that graduated university in the 1960s

Grade 12

The average grade reached by Americans in the 1960s

221

Number of major demonstrations at universities in the first half of 1968

24%

Proportion of Americans who had colour televisions by 1968

$500,000

- The amount of money that was spent on killing each Vietcong soldier

- The amount of money used by CREEP to pay for the 5 Watergate burglars' legal fees

$38 billion

Annual rate of business investment in 1952

28%

Estimated number of Americans living in poverty in 1952

30

Number of congressmen forced to resign as a result of 'Koreagate'

50%

Percentage of young people who went to university in the 1960s

70,000

Number of activists involved in the 1967 anti-war rally in Washington

71%

Ford's approval rating before pardoning Nixon

10-15%

Annual inflation during the late 1970s

19

Average age of US soldiers in Vietnam

50,000 per month

US army draft figures in 1967

205

Number of communists working in the US State Department in 1950, according to Senator McCarthy

19,000

Number of US troops stationed in the suburbs for the March on Washington in 1963

3 million

- Number of US troops who remained enrolled in the army in 1945

- Number of Americans who benefited from unemployment benefits under Kennedy

35/58

Number of bills successful passed by Kennedy

60,000

- Nation-wide membership of the first White Citizens Council after a few years

- Number of troops that died in the Tet Offensive

- Number of arrests in Civil Rights riots between 1964 and 1972

14 million

Number of African-Americans in the USA in 1945

$20 billion

- Government investment in the GI Bill in the first 10 years

- Amount of US aid promised in the Alliance for Progress in 1961

Unemployment levels under Truman

350,000

Number of Native Americans in the USA in 1945

200 miles

The length of James Meredith's march in 1966

Inflation at the start of Johnson's presidency

80,000

- Population of the US Communist party under Truman

- Tonnes of bombs dropped on the Khe Sanh Base in 1968

6.2%

Percentage of African-Americans who were registered to vote in 1964

700,000

Black population of Chicago in 1966

3,500 hours

Number of hours of tape released by Nixon on the 30th of July 1974

5 million

Number of Americans who benefitted under Kennedy's benefit system

650

The amount of nuclear weapons the USSR had stockpiled by 1957

3

Number of civil rights workers who went missing in 1964

80

Number of black workers who were beaten during the 1964 Freedom Summer

1.5 million

- The amount of soldiers that remained enrolled in 1946

- The estimated number of votes that Kennedy lost due to his Catholic faith

47

Age of Richard Nixon when he ran for president in 1960

34

Number of deaths in the Watts Riots in 1965

$4-5 billion

The extra revenue Johnson had spend in his first two years as a result of pushing through of Kennedy's proposed tax cuts

1.4%

Unemployment at the start of Johnson's presidency

>3 billion

Number of people who have been fed by 'Food for Peace'

6%

Unemployment level at the end of Kennedy's presidency

$13 billion

The amount of money transferred to Europe by the US as a result of the Marshall Plan

3.5 million

Number of Asian-Americans in America by 1980

58

Number of Congressmen who supported Truman's decision to veto the 1952 Internal Security Act

200,000

- Number of marchers on Washington in 1963

- Number of protesters that marched in New York following the Three Mile Island incident

900

Number of US troops in Vietnam in 1960

750,000

Number of children who benefited from Kennedy's extra welfare benefits

>300

Number of women enrolled in US service academies by 1976

200 hours

Number of hours of released tapes that directly related to Watergate

14

Number of lesbian/gay activists who were invited to the White House by Carter in 1977

50,000

- Number of students that participated in the first sit-ins

- Number of South Korean troops that were deployed in Vietnam by 1968

$30 million

Amount of money won back by NOW by 1968

12,000

- Number of black people who attempted to vote in Mississippi in 1964

- Number of Vietcong that defeated Diêm's army

1062

Number of arrests that occurred during the 1964 Freedom Summer

13 years

Amount of time both Kennedy and Nixon had spent in Congress

$3.19 billion

Amount of money that was spent on housing under Kennedy