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WorksheetsHappy Days 1954-1960
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 10mins
Advertising, marketing, and public relations (PR) work are all types of ...
White collar jobs
Blue collar jobs
The main idea of the Man in the Gray Flannel Suit is that in corporate culture everyone
Have their own identity
I looked and acted the same
Celebrate a diversity
Choose all that apply. Which contributed to the growth of the suburbs?
Baby Boom
Development of Levittowns
National Interstate and Highways Defense Act
Consumer Economy
What best characterizes the economy of the 1950s?
Consumer Culture
Economic Depression
Underproduction of Consumer Goods
Slow Growth
In the 1950s, the expectation was that women's place was
And the school
In the home
In business
Which media form became highly influential during the 1950s?
Newspapers
Radio
Motion Pictures
Television
Which cultural trend made parents fearful as a teenage culture developed in the 1950s?
Red Scare
Rock-N-Roll
Television
Space Race
In 1956, A rock-n-roll superstar emerged. His name was
Little Richard
Bill Haley
Elvis Presley
The counterculture group that challenged the conformity and materialism of the 1950s were the
Rock ‘n’ roll super hippies
Hippies
Beats
The Montgomery Bus Boycott ended when
MLK's house was bombed
The Supreme Court ordered desegregation of the buses.
Congress passed the Civil Rights Act
In 1954, The Supreme Court ordered the desegregation of schools in the
Plessy v. Ferguson decision
Brown v. Board of Education decision
When Governor Faubus challenged desegregation and used the National Guard to block the Little Rock 9, which President was forced to act to protect the students and back up the federal court decision?
Kennedy
Truman
Eisenhower
All of following are aspects of the new automobile culture EXCEPT
The interstate highway system
Drive-in restaurants
Hotels /Motels
Rock ‘n’ roll
The real reason that Eisenhower approved the Federal Highway Act was for
To spur the Economy
Military transportation
Truck traffic
Why didn't the US help the Hungarians in their revolution?
The US didn’t have enough weapon
The US was afraid that it would turn into a world war.
The Hungarians never ask for help
American efforts at rocket technology in the 1950s was marked by
Numerous failure
Millions of civilian deaths
Numerous successes
The Soviets launched the first satellite into space known as
Molotov
Apollo
Sputnik
Besides space exploration what is the best explanation on why the superpowers invested in rockets? (Multiple Answers)
To provide a way to deliver nuclear weapon
To prove that they could
To sell them to other countries
Why was the Quiz Show 21 a disappointment?
The winner didn’t receive any
The winner was given the answers
A Soviet had won the show
