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Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 11mins
When soldiers returned home from World War II, what helped them get lower mortgage rates and paid for their continued education?
The Consitution
Veteran's Fund
G.I. Bill of Rights
Military Service Reimbursement Bill
These "super" structures connected multiple states across the country. Built during the Cold War in case of a nuclear attack
Transcontinental Railroad
Amtrak Rail System
Federal Highway System
Old Town Road
Click on all the consumer products of the 1950s that Americans bought after WWII (3 answers)
By the 1950s, what made air travel easier and faster?
Southwest Airlines
Wright Brothers in 1903
Jet engine
Larger wings
This item became popular after WWII. 30 years go in the 1920s Americans had problems with this product due to the "buy now, pay never" attitude. After WWII Americans learned how to use it properly (buy now, pay later; points, cashback, penalties, etc.)
Ledger
Credit Cards
Labor Unions
Rosie the Riveter
This planned communities sprang up after WWII. They were usually located outside major market cities; families would commute to work with their new luxury cars and homes were "cookie cutter" and affordable
Suburbs
Inner City
Ultraburbs
Shopping Malls
Choose all the similarities between William Levitt's houses in the 40s and Henry Ford's automobiles in the early 1900s: (3 Answers)
Expensive
Similar look and easily replicated
Assembly line construction
Affordable
Not reliable/sturdy
What body was created for the nations near the end of World War II to try to prevent future global wars?
League of Nations
Allied Powers
Axis Powers
United Nations
Extended educational, housing, and employment benefits to veterans; Which of the following is being described?
Civil Rights legislation
19th Amendment
G.I. Bill
Prohibition
Which statement about women during and after WWII is FASLE?
Women's roles changed after the war; going briefly back into home/caretaker roles, but returning to the work force in the later decades
Some women assumed the traditional housewife role after WWII as men returned
More women worked in defense factories after World War II
Wartime or Peacetime: Ration Books/Coupons
Wartime
Peacetime
Wartime or Peacetime: New luxury cars
Wartime
Peacetime
