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Which of the following statements is true about the post–World War II U.S. economy?
American prosperity was beyond the reach of many poor and nonwhite Americans
Which of the following phenomena served as a major engine for consumption in the United States during the 1950s?
The Baby Boom
How did homophile activists challenge the prejudicial attitudes of most Americans toward gay men and lesbians in the 1950s?
They avoided gay bars and nightclubs and dressed in modest, conservative clothing
Which of the following statements describes post–World War II America?
Americans enjoyed the highest standard of living in the world
The Beat generation of the 1950s rejected
political activism
The term Pax Americana refers to
American domination of the global economy after World War II
The ideal family, as presented in the media of the 1950s, with a stay-at-home mom and a father as the breadwinner, was
not representative of diverse American culture
Which of the following statements characterizes the innovations in housing construction pioneered by William Levitt after World War II?
His company pioneered the application of mass-production techniques to home construction
Which of the following was the predominant tendency in business during the twenty years following World War II?
The consolidation of economic power into big corporate firms
In the 1950s, evangelist Norman Vincent Peale preached
the therapeutic use of religion
When Eisenhower said, “We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought,” he was referring to the
military-industrial complex
The great resurgence of evangelical religion in 1950s America was most evident in the dramatic rise in popularity of
Billy Graham
Which of the following statements accurately characterizes U.S. immigration laws between World War II and the mid-1960s?
In 1952, the McCarran-Walter Act ended the exclusion of immigrants from China, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia
Michael Harrington’s 1962 book The Other America exposed
Poverty in America
Which of the following statements describes women and their relationship to work and family life in the postwar decades?
Most "women's jobs" were in teaching, nursing, or the service sector
The space race began after
Americans learned that the Soviet Union had launched the first space satellite
Which of the following was an impetus for the post–World War II baby boom?
The declining age of marriage for women and men
Which of the following describes the urban renewal projects that took place in U.S. cities in the 1950s?
Urban renewal efforts coincided with an increase in cities' black, Latino, and Native American populations
Which of the following was a popular television program of the 1950s that depicted American working-class lives?
The Honeymooners
How did middle-class wives and mothers seek to justify their work outside the home in the 1950s?
They explained their work in family-oriented terms and maintained their domestic responsibilities
The GI Bill (1944) stimulated the American economy by
Subsidizing higher education and financing millions of mortgages
Which of the following exemplified the sexual conservatism that characterized the period from 1945 to the mid-1960s?
College women had curfews and needed permission to entertain male visitors
Which of the following describes the famous kitchen debate of 1959?
It settled no greater political purpose, but it revealed the commercialism of the postwar American dream
Record sales boomed in the United States during the 1950s because of
Rock 'n' Roll
Which of the following describes the economic changes taking place in the United States during the 1950s?
Consumption came to be seen as a social responsibility