Quiz 30-1

After the war, Americans were most eager to:

• purchase consumer goods

• save their money

• travel to Europe

• attend universities

Which of the following is NOT true of the GI Bill?

• It caused a dramatic increase in college enrollments

• It enabled many veterans to buy new homes

• It provided funds to pay for job-training programs

• It cost far more than expected and was able to show few results

The baby boom:

• has been overrated in importance as a social phenomenon

• continued the twentieth century's steady increase in birthrate

• started in the early days of World War II

• started in 1946

Between 1945 and 1960, home ownership

• significantly increased

• was hampered due to shortages of credit

• became almost universal

• was not as popular as government-provided public housing

The phenomenon of "white flight" in the 1950s

• stopped when the federal government banned housing discrimination

• involved poor whites fleeing the South for jobs in big northern cities

• showed the improvement in race relations since the end of World War II

• was a major cause of the growth of the suburbs