Early Cold War

This program assisted soldiers when they returned to civilian life

• Selective Service Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• G.I. Bill

• Baby Boom

What happened as a result of the increase in U.S. births that began in 1942

• the decline of family farming

• The spread of new diseases

• The reduction of defense spending

• The growth of suburbs

What is a consequence of suburbia

• Increase in housing prices

• increased demand for automobiles

• increased deforestation

• Increase urban decay

The introduction of vaccines to the United States helped

• limit the risk in consumer imported produce

• limit the spread of infectious diseases

• improve the hygiene of medical procedures

• improve the water supply

This needed to be improved to also serve as a route for out national defense

• Interstate Highway System

• Autoban

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Panama Canal

A society that purchases a new washing machine, a new car, and a new vacuum would be an example of what

• sellers market

• scarcity

• incentives

• consumerism

This helped rebuild Europe after WWII, and to prevent Europe falling to communism

• Marshall Plan

• Truman Plan

• Dawes Plan

• None of the above

This was a government program that allowed millions of people to earn a higher education

• Truman Plan

• Marshall Plan

• GI Bill

• Eisenhower Doctrine

What new financial instrument was introduced late in the 1950s?

• credit card

• Amazon

• Saving Accounts

• Installment Plans

This new technology helped spur consumerism through advertising

• Washing Machine

• TV

• Cars

• All of these