The Cold War Begins

Many Americans feared that the end of World War II would bring

• heightened racial tensions.

• a return of the Great Depression.

• moral and religious decline.

• continued fascist resistance in Germany.

The passage of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act (GI Bill of Rights) was partly motivated by

• fear of postwar veterans' protests.

• memories of the mistreatment of the veterans' Bonus Army in the 1930s.

• fear that the labor markets could not absorb millions of discharged veterans.

• a desire to expand the social diversity of American colleges and universities.

The growth of organized labor in the post-World War II era was slowed by all of the following except the

• Taft-Hartley Act.

• rapidly growing number of service-sector workers.

• failure of Operation Dixie.

• reduced number of women in the work force.

The post-World War II prosperity in the United States was most beneficial to

• African Americans.

• labor unions.

• women.

• Hispanics.

The long economic boom from World War II to about 1970 was especially fueled by

• low energy costs.

• reduced military expenditures.

• low inflation.

• low taxes.

One sign of the stress that the widespread post-World War II geographic mobility placed on American families was the

• redistribution of income.

• popularity of advice books on child-rearing.

• increasing reliance on television as a baby sitter.

• increased number of long-distance telephone calls.

Since 1945, population in the United States has grown most rapidly in the

• Northeast.

• Midwest.

• Sunbelt.

• Frostbelt.

All of the following encouraged many post-1945 Americans to move to the suburbs except

• development of fuel-efficient automobiles.

• home-loan guarantees from the Federal Housing Authority and the Veterans' Administration.

• government-built highways.

• tax deductions for interest payments on home mortgages.

By 1960, the proportion of Americans who lived in areas classified as metropolitan suburbs was approximately

• three out of four (75 percent).

• one out of four (25 percent).

• half (50 percent).

• one out of ten (10 percent).

Population distribution after World War II followed a pattern of

• mass migration of blacks from the West to the Midwest.

• movement from the Southwest to Appalachia.

• movement out of the cities and into small towns.

• an urban-suburban segregation of blacks and whites in major metropolitan areas.