Grade 11: Postwar prosperity

What was the "GI Bill of Rights"?

• laws that provided benefits to veterans, including grants for education and loans to buy homes

• a list of the rights that were guaranteed to anyone who had enlisted in the military

• a series of newspaper articles that described the hardships faced by veterans returning from war

• a system of making the draft more fair and extending exceptions to the draft for certain groups

What word refers to people buying things even if they don't have cash to pay for them and must put them on creidt?

• consumptive

• contrarian

• consumerism

• conflagration

When people are exposed to the same set of ideas and values repeatedly, you may see the rise of....

• independent thought

• mass culture

• religious revival

• language barriers

What is the "nuclear family"?

• Husband, wife, and children

• Husband, wife, grandparents

• Grandparents, siblings, cousins

• Ancestors and descendants

Harry Truman began the process of "demobilization." What does that mean?

• discharging men from the military and sending them home

• entering into peace treaties that made the military unnecessary

• removing nuclear weapons from other nations

• moving military forces away from US bases and into other countries

What was the "baby boom"?

• population growth resulting in part from veterans returning home, marrying, and starting families

• a fear of starting a family because of the threat of nuclear war in the near future

• a sudden growth in average size of babies born in the US due to improvements in nutrition and medical care

• the worldwide surge in population due to increases in food availability and medical care

This law outlawed a "closed shop," which meant a workplace only hiring union workers.

• Taft-Hartley Act

• Smoot-Hawley Act

• Jenkinson Act

• Fair Labor Act

In the 1948 election, President Harry Truman won a surprise victory, being re-elected. Every newspaper had predicted his loss. Who ran against him?

• Robert Taft

• Richard Nixon

• Dwight Eisenhower

• Thomas Dewey

This man was elected President in 1952.

• John F. Kennedy

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Harry S. Truman

• Richard Nixon

Which two words best summarize the years of Eisenhower's presidency?

• war and welfare

• peace and prosperity

• famine and fighting

• education and expansion