5.5.2

"Urban sprawl" was accidentally created in post-World War II America thanks MAINLY to which of these?

• end of the Cold War
• greater shopping opportunies
• expansion of the highway system
• more fuel-efficient automobile

The popularity of television expanded rapidly beginning in what 20th Century decade?

• 1930s
• 1940s
• 1950s
• 1960s

Levittown was an important part of what post-World War II issue?

• suburban sprawl
• nuclear pollution
• civil rights movement
• anti-Vietnam War protests

Following World War II, America entered an age of greatly increased consumer spending which was made more intense by

• new "talking" movies.
• rivalries with Russia.
• the invention of movies.
• advertising on television.

Which of these had the BIGGEST impact on the increase in 1950s consumerism?

• movies
• newspapers
• radio
• television

Which conflict is often referred to as the first "televised war"?

• Gulf War
• Korean War
• Vietnam War
• World War II

Which industry grew quickly in the 1960s after the United States began their space exploration program?

• car
• computer
• internet
• telephone

According to this chart, which statement is TRUE?

• More men were unemployed than women in 1970
• There were fewer people working in 1995than in 1970.
• Women were more accepted in the workplace in 1995than in 1970.
• Women were finding it harder to get jobs as the centurycame to an end.

The term "glass ceiling" refers to which issue?

• the lack of voting rights
• discrimination in the workplace
• an increase in home construction
• D) pollution in U.S. national parks

Using this picture, how did these developments after World War II impact American cities?

• More people began to move into the cities toavoid living in suburban developments.
• Lower class families left to move into thesuburbs leaving mainly wealthy people to livein inner cities.
• Many families were able to own their home in thesuburbs, leaving the inner cities to people unable toafford their own homes.
• African-Americans and other minorities moved to thesuburbs to buy houses in the suburbs, creating mainlywhite inner city communities.