Cold War and 50's test

The post World War II baby boom led to:

• Increased Urban Decay
• Increased Demand for housing
• Increaded demand for automobiles
• Increased Immigration

Which of the following was a direct result of the 1957 launch of Sputnik 1

• The U.S. shared technology with the U.S.S.R.
• The U.S. founded NASA
• The U.S.S.R. was not able to collect images of the U.S. from space
• The U.S.S.R. collapsed due to economic competition

Why did people stop spending as much money at the movies from 1946-1965?

• Increase in unemployment
• popularity of television
• decrease in urban population
• resurgence of fundamentalism

What was designed to allow a plan to land and take off every 3 minutes?

• to allow the quick withdrawal of troops

• to deploy invasion forces

• provide supplies for West Berlin

• rescue thousands of political refugees

Which of the following resulted from McCarthyism during the 1950's?

• Increased membership of the communist party

• U.S. citizens were arrested for being suspected communists

• Reformed U.S. military branch recruitment procedures

• Diplomats began to express dissenting political viewpoints.

President Truman said "Communism has passed beyond the use of subversion…and will now use invasion and war" What was he referring to?

• Korea

• Vietnam

• Turkey

• Greece

Expansion of the middle class, Highways, and suburbs were all caused by:

• an increase of immigration

• creation of Housing and Urban Development

• reductions in peacetime defense spending

• economic prosperity after WWII

Why did home ownership greatly increase after World War II

• weapons plants going back to producing consumer goods
• The Great Society
• Programs for temporary laborers
• Assistance from the G.I. Bill for veterans of WWII.

Which movie did the House Un-American Activities Committee investigate showing an idealized version of the Soviet Union?

• Song of Russia

• Song of the South

• Song of Solomon

• Song of myself

In response to the launching of Sputnik, what did the U.S. government do?

• Developed the first computer

• established international education guidelines

• funded education initiatives for math and science

• discovered new chemical elements