Worksheets1950s Test
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 10mins
Which of the following best accounts for the rise in consumer spending during the 1950s?
A Rise in Production
A Rise in Median Household Income
Consumer spending did not increase in the 1950s
Television and media influences
Which of the following inventions was most responsible for mass culture during the 1950s?
The Television
The Automobile
The Washing Machine
The RAdio
Which of the following is true of women during the 1950s?
Women were paid the same as men
Women were expected to return to a life of domesticity
Women worked at a higher rate than men
Women had more children than ever before
By 1960, women held this proportion of America's jobs.
1/3
1/4
1/5
1/2
Which of the following groups had the smallest impact on consumer spending during the 1950s?
Men
Women
Children
Immigrants
Which of the following was not a group that experienced high rates of poverty in the 1950s?
Urban Women
Veterans of WWII
African Americans
LAtinos
In the Public Law 280, congress gave state governments the power to assume jurisdiction over Indian reservations, giving Native Americans more responsibility and less funding while also making them subject to the laws of that state. This policy is most reflective of:
Separate but Equal
A Rise in Median Household Income
Land Grant Acts
Termination Policy
Which of the following was a senator who interrogated suspected communists?
Douglas MacArthur
John F. Kennedy
Joseph McCarthy
John McWorthy
His vaccine eradicated polio.
Jonas Salk
Joseph McCarthy
John Kennedy
Gen. MacArthur
The type of family emphasized by television and other media.
Divorced
Nuclear
General
Large
New type of music that was rejected by traditionalists but embraced by youth.
Rap Music
Rock and Roll
Country
Pop
Social critics who rejected conformity.
Beat Generation
Hippies
1940s Generation
Investigated claims of communism
House Communism Committee
Anti-Communist Committee
House Un-American Activities COmmittee
Policy of limiting communism in countries
Limitation
Containment
Restriction
Presidential Plan to effect a policy of anti-communism
Truman Doctrine
Eisenhower Doctrine
Communism Doctrine
Johnson Doctrine
Ended the career of Joe McCarthy
Anti-Communist Protest
Army vs. McCarthy Hearing
State Department vs. McCarthy
His Death
The United States and its capitalist allies banded together to form
SEATO
NATO
The Superfriends
The Warsaw Pact
The USSR and its communist allies banded together to form
SEATO
The Warsaw Pact
The Legion of Doom
NATO
East Germany and other eastern European nations became ______________ of the USSR.
Iron Curtains
Safelite States
Satellite States
NATO Allies
