Chapter 28: Post-War Prosperity and Cold War Fears, 1945-1960

The Korean War started when

North Korea, with aid from the Soviet Union, invaded South Korea.

Which event did civil rights activist Rosa Parks start in 1955?

Montgomery Bus Boycott

I was a U.S. senator who spearheaded the anti-Communist campaign in the U.S.–I went after government workers and the U.S. military.
Who was ?

Joseph McCarthy

The post-World War II period brought overall economic prosperity, and what to the U.S.?

expansion of the middle class and higher annual incomes.

By 1950, what was a common household item?

television

What started the Cold War?

the U.S. fear of the spread of Communism and the Soviet Union interference in Europe, Asia, and Latin America.

In response to the Soviet Union launch of Sputnik, the first satellite in space, the U.S. did what?

increased spending in research and science education

Which musical genre identified with teenage rebellion?

rock and roll

Which topic did the comic book Is This Tomorrow? (Figure 28.1) highlight?

the spread of Communism and a U.S.A-Soviet Union conflict.

President Harry Truman proposed an ambitious “Fair Deal” agenda and the Republican Congress blocked much of his legislation; however, he was able to do what through executive order? 

desegregate the U.S. military

NAACP lawyer who successfully argued the land mark case of Brown v. Board of Education, which started the process of desegregating public schools.
Who was ?

Thurgood Marshall

Which president warned against the growth of the military industrial complex (the close relationship between the US government and the defense industry)?

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The Servicemen’s Readjustment Act, or commonly called the GI Bill, did which of the following?

enabled some 2 million veterans to attend college

Who came up with the U.S. foreign policy of containing the Soviet Union and the spread of Communism?

George Kennan

A by-product of the post-war growth in suburbs was the

increased demand for automobiles

Which president’s policy of “massive retaliation” was called “Mutually Assured Destruction” or MAD?

Dwight D. Eisenhower

To help Europe rebuild and as a strategy to stop the spread of Communism, the Marshall Plan provided European nations with how much economic, political, and humanitarian aid?

thirteen billion dollars

In response to Josef Stalin and the USSR isolating the city of Berlin, the U.S. and their allies formed which organization?

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

Which Supreme Court decision struck down race-based real estate covenants?

Shelley v. Kraemer

Which Congressional committee got the “Hollywood Ten” blackballed?

the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)

Japanese Americans were able to resettle on the West Coast starting January 1945. Which of the following was accurate regarding their return?

many returning Japanese Americans faced a hostile public reception.

Chinese Communists took over China after

Mao Zedong defeated Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek