Post WWII Prosperity

5-25 Post WWII America

Multiple Choice

What does this 50's slang mean?

Bake a biscuit

• Record a song

• Make cookies

• Do homework

• Go to the movies

Multiple Choice

What does this 50's slang mean?

Apple Butter

• Smooth talk

• Nice hair

• Easy going

• Gross taste

It is TV Time!

The number of television sets in use rose from 6,000 in 1946 to some 12 million by 1951. No new invention entered American homes faster than black and white television sets; by 1955 half of all U.S. homes had one.

Multiple Choice

World War II provided an economic boom in America making our economy strong in which of the following ways?

• healthy job market

• increased productivity

• increased demand for American products

• all of the above

Multiple Choice

What economic practice from the 1920's returned in the 1950's where Americans purchased goods with money they did not have?

• bank runs

• speculation

• overdraft

• credit lines

Multiple Choice

Read the following statement and answer the question:

Consumer goods were no longer rationed and people cashed in war bonds. Businesses converted their factories back from making war materials to making more consumer goods.

What economic practice is being explained here?

• Rationing

• Socialism

• Consumerism

• Supply and Demand

Multiple Choice

What did the G.I. Bill of 1944 provide?

• lifelong careers in the military

• women and minorities with factory jobs

• low-income families with housing

• soldiers with money for housing or education

Multiple Choice

People moved out of the city and into ______, or Levittowns, to start families.

• suburbs

• farms

• trailers

• ghettos

Multiple Choice

What did Eisenhower implement in America's infrastructure to promote auto travel?

• river dams

• interstate highways

• paved roads

• complex bridges

Multiple Choice

Following the end of the war, men returned to working in the _________ whereas women returned to working in the _____.

• home; factories

• fields; church

• factories; home

• military camps; classrooms

Multiple Choice

Returning from WWII, soldiers in mass got married and started families. This refers to the ___________ of the 1950's.

• Levittown

• Baby Boom

• National Defense Education Act

• G.I. Bill

Multiple Choice

The migration (moving) of people during the 1950s moved from urban to _____.

• suburbs

• GI Bill

• arms race

• cultural divide

Multiple Choice

The population increase known as the “baby boom” began in the late 1940s. 

• true
• false

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was an effect of the economic prosperity of the 1950's?

• Americans invested in consumer goods based on the home, such as televisions, appliances, & automobiles.

• Americans invested heavily in the stock market

• Americans continued to pay high taxes

• Americans purchased more foreign goods produced in Asian countries like Korea and Japan

Multiple Choice

In combination with residential and familial responsibilities, women also increasingly ________________.

• found time to bond with other housewives

• re-entered the workforce and worked outside of the home

• began prominent and influential government programs

• joined the military