Ch. 14: Postwar America

After the launches of Sputnik I and Sputnik II in 1957, efforts began in the US to

• Send more juvenile delinquents to jail.

• Discourage adolescents from reading science fiction.

• Improve math and science education.

• Limit the amount of TV that children watched.

Differing attitudes toward music and other forms of popular culture became known as the

• Car culture.

• Baby boom.

• Generation gap.

• Popular culture.

Although Congress did not pass all 7 of Truman's proposed Fair Deal programs, it did increase Social Security benefits to 10 million more people, pass a law providing money for low-income housing, and

• Provided subsidies for farmers.

• Created national health insurance for all citizens.

• Granted federal aid to schools.

• Raised the minimum wage.

The strongest cause of the baby boom was

• Delay in marriages during WWII.

• Counterculture movement of the 1960s.

• Economic prosperity of the 1920s.

• Great Depression of the 1930s.

After WWII, the Servicemen's Readjustment Act--popularly called the GI Bill--made is possible for many returning soldiers to

• Find blue-collar jobs.

• Make careers in the military.

• Move to the inner cities.

• Buy homes.

Which was NOT a criticism being made about the workplace environment in the 1950s?

• People looked to others for their values and approval.

• There were more blue-collar jobs than white-collar jobs.

• Machines were replacing people.

• The pressure to conform was too great.

The greatest domestic programs of the Eisenhower presidency involved

• Interstate highways.

• Bus stations.

• Railroads.

• Airports.

Although most Americans in the 1950s assumed that the country's prosperity provided everyone with a comfortable existence, at least 1 in 5 Americans

• Lived below the poverty line.

• Lived in crowded housing projects.

• Did not have access to medical care.

• Struggled against discrimination.

Helped radio survive America's massive switch-over to television in the 1950s?

• Cinemascope

• Freed

• Car drivers

• Dewey

• Levittown

All of the following statements about inner cities in the 1950s are true EXCEPT

• African American cotton pickers were moving to inner cities.

• Hispanic migrant farm workers were moving to the inner cities.

• The government was pushing Native Americans to leave reservations and move to cities.

• The inner city was not seeing much change as far as people moving in or out of the inner city.