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1950s Test

Total questions: 19

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following best accounts for the rise in consumer spending during the 1950s?

a)

A Rise in Production

b)

A Rise in Median Household Income

c)

Consumer spending did not increase in the 1950s

d)

Television and media influences

2.

Which of the following inventions was most responsible for mass culture during the 1950s?

a)

The Television

b)

The Automobile

c)

The Washing Machine

d)

The RAdio

3.

Which of the following is true of women during the 1950s?

a)

Women were paid the same as men

b)

Women were expected to return to a life of domesticity

c)

Women worked at a higher rate than men

d)

Women had more children than ever before

4.

By 1960, women held this proportion of America's jobs.

a)

1/3

b)

1/4

c)

1/5

d)

1/2

5.

Which of the following groups had the smallest impact on consumer spending during the 1950s?

a)

Men

b)

Women

c)

Children

d)

Immigrants

6.

Which of the following was not a group that experienced high rates of poverty in the 1950s?

a)

Urban Women

b)

Veterans of WWII

c)

African Americans

d)

LAtinos

7.

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:

a)

Separate but Equal

b)

A Rise in Median Household Income

c)

Land Grant Acts

d)

Termination Policy

8.

Which of the following was a senator who interrogated suspected communists?

a)

Douglas MacArthur

b)

John F. Kennedy

c)

Joseph McCarthy

d)

John McWorthy

9.

His vaccine eradicated polio.

a)

Jonas Salk

b)

Joseph McCarthy

c)

John Kennedy

d)

Gen. MacArthur

10.

The type of family emphasized by television and other media.

a)

Divorced

b)

Nuclear

c)

General

d)

Large

11.

New type of music that was rejected by traditionalists but embraced by youth.

a)

Rap Music

b)

Rock and Roll

c)

Country

d)

Pop

12.

Social critics who rejected conformity.

a)

Beat Generation

b)

Hippies

c)

1940s Generation

13.

Investigated claims of communism

a)

House Communism Committee

b)

Anti-Communist Committee

c)

House Un-American Activities COmmittee

14.

Policy of limiting communism in countries

a)

Limitation

b)

Containment

c)

Restriction

15.

Presidential Plan to effect a policy of anti-communism

a)

Truman Doctrine

b)

Eisenhower Doctrine

c)

Communism Doctrine

d)

Johnson Doctrine

16.

Ended the career of Joe McCarthy

a)

Anti-Communist Protest

b)

Army vs. McCarthy Hearing

c)

State Department vs. McCarthy

d)

His Death

17.

The United States and its capitalist allies banded together to form

a)

SEATO

b)

NATO

c)

The Superfriends

d)

The Warsaw Pact

18.

The USSR and its communist allies banded together to form

a)

SEATO

b)

The Warsaw Pact

c)

The Legion of Doom

d)

NATO

19.

East Germany and other eastern European nations became ______________ of the USSR.

a)

Iron Curtains

b)

Safelite States

c)

Satellite States

d)

NATO Allies