Ch. 23 Postwar America

Post war, restaurants and hotels were encouraged to develop because of...

• trains

• airplanes

• interstates

The Servicemen's Readjustment Act would pay for...

• college

• food

• healthcare

The Taft-Hartley Act would hurt...

• open shops

• closed shops

• anti-union shops

Truman's legislative agenda was geared towards...

• civil rights

• increasing voting restrictions

• decreasing military spending

In the 1948 election Truman won...

• a landslide popular vote

• key states to give him the electoral college

• an early victory in the East

The 81st Congress didn't support Truman's....

• healthcare plan

• minimum wage raise

• Social Security increase

Truman would lose support in 1950 because of the...

• Vietnam War

• Korean War

• War in Guatemala

Eisenhower was in support of...

• school construction

• dynamic conservatism

• creeping socialism

Eisenhower cut spending to Social Security and unemployment.

• True

• False

America's fastest growing industry during the 1950s was...

• manufacturing

• agriculture

• advertising