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Postwar Prosperity

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What does HUAC stand for?

a)

House Un-American Activities Committee

b)

How Unbelieveable Are Communists

c)

History Understands American Culture

d)

House Un-American Against Communists

2.

How did HUAC's policies impact citizens?

a)

They had no impact on citizens

b)

The government endangered people's rights

c)

The government supported Communist ideas

d)

They supported nuclear war

3.

People built expensive bunkers and bomb shelters because they were afraid of what?

a)

Flooding caused by climate change

b)

The Soviet Union invading the United States

c)

Germany starting another Holocaust

d)

Nuclear war with the Soviet Union

4.

Why were the Loyalty Review Board and HUAC created?

a)

To create suburban neighborhoods

b)

To investigate people that were NOT loyal to the United States government

c)

To give African Americans more job opportunities

d)

To make women stay at home

5.

Why was there a baby boom after World War II?

a)

Many babies were born after soldiers returned home

b)

Less babies were born after soldiers returned home

c)

Many babies were adopted from overseas

d)

Children were forced to work in factories

6.

Where did middle-class people move to after World War II?

a)

suburbs

b)

cities

c)

farms

d)

mountains

7.

Many middle-class people never experienced what during this time?

a)

cheap houses

b)

more jobs

c)

living in a city

d)

poverty

8.

One negative impact of middle-class people moving to suburbs was what?

a)

city governments could no longer provide resources to poor people living in cities

b)

the Soviet Union was more likely to attack cities

c)

the government wanted to plant spies in suburbs

d)

city governments were able to provide many important services to poor people

9.

Who did the GI bill help?

a)

women

b)

African Americans

c)

veterans

d)

farmers

10.

What did the GI Bill do?

a)

provide resources to veterans to go to college and buy a house

b)

allow soldiers to leave the military early

c)

give families of veterans free medical care

d)

allow veterans to get a free car

11.

What did "The Feminine Mystique" discuss?

a)

women should stay at home and take care of kids

b)

women were not smart enough to work like men

c)

women would be happier if they had to rely on men for money

d)

women would be happier if they could work outside of the home

12.

African American career opportunities increased and expanded during this time period.

a)

True

b)

False

13.

Who wrote "The Feminine Mystique"?

a)

Betty Friedan

b)

Barbara Streisand

c)

Virginia Woolf

d)

Margaret Thatcher

14.

What are suburbs?

a)

cities near the coast

b)

areas outside of cities

c)

underground bomb shelters