Topic 3: Postwar Economy, Culture, Great Society (Period 8)

A significant demographic development in the two decades following the Second World War was a

• decline in marriage and birth rates

• rapid growth of suburbs

• movement from urban to rural communities

• increasing migration from the South and West to the Northeast

Major domestic developments in the United States during President Eisenhower’s two terms included all of the following EXCEPT

• the dismantling of New Deal welfare programs

• the peaking of the postwar baby boom

• the beginning of construction of an interstate highway system

• the buildup of nuclear weapons

Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society included all of the following EXCEPT

• job training programs

• government-insured bank deposits

• healthcare for the poor and elderly

• early childhood education programs

Which of the following was a major effect of the passage of the Immigration Act of 1965 ?

• The total number of immigrants admitted to the United States was significantly reduced.

• Immigrants from within the Western Hemisphere were given preference over other immigrants.

• Immigration from Britain, Ireland, and Germany increased significantly.

• Immigration from Asia increased significantly.

In her influential 1962 work Silent Spring, Rachel Carson warned

• that many cars built in the United States were unsafe

• about the dangerous impact of pesticides

• that poverty in the United States threatened the overall economy

• about building resentment in the conservative movement towards feminists

One significant result of the trend appearing in the chart was the

• decrease in the number of immigrants seeking entry to the United States

• increase in labor union membership

• the growing political and economic influence of the Sunbelt

• decline in the popularity of conservative politicians

Levittown characterized what some social critics believed to be

• tangible evidence of the strength of the nation’s largest cities

• the end of racial segregation

• a sign that Americans were becoming more tolerant of cultural differences

• a representation of conformity of postwar culture

The growth of suburbs was vastly accelerated by all of the following except-

• widespread ownership of automobiles

• Fair Housing Act of 1968

• Interstate Highway Act of 1956

• G.I. Bill

The role that was promoted for women in the 1950s was

• full-time employment and juggling family life

• suburban domesticity and child-rearing

• holding onto industrial jobs gained during World War II

• full-time employment and juggling family life

The goals of the Great Society are most similar to the goals of-

• Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal of the 1930's

• Conservative economic policies of the 1980's

• Laissez-faire principles of the 1800's

• Social Darwinism of the late nineteenth century