Fifties Families
'Ike' Eisenhower
Reshaping Urban America
Reshaping Urban America 2
CIA
100
The reason for the drop in women's share of college degrees and professional careers.
Stay-At-Home mom trend.
100
Eisenhower's political party
Republican
100
Measure that provided federal funding to build a nationwide system of interstate and defense highways
What is the Federal Highway Act of 1956?
100
The average wage rose faster than the _________ from 1953-1964.
hint: people were able to purchase once unafforable TVs and cars
Consumer Prices.
100
The president who created the CIA when he signed the National Security Act.
Who was President Truman?
200
87% of households had this electronic apparatus by 1960.
What is the television?
200
He expanded this new deal program, which is the most long lasting and is still around today.
What is Social Security?
200
Toll roads, extra taxes on tires, automobiles, fuel, and trucks were all new changes to support what?
The funding/ building of interstate highways.
200
The US economy in the 1950s could be summed up as a _______ republic.
Hint: think of the masses of appliances, new innovations, and cultural trends people bought into.
Consumers Republic
200
During the Cold War, the CIA was responsible for gathering information from this nation.
Who is Russia?
300
Magazines at the time claimed that there were distinct roles for mom and dad. What was the typical role for mom?
Moms were urged to find happiness in a well scrubbed house and in their kids. Time spent on housework increased. They married early and had an average of 3 kids.
300
What are called 'little boxes'?
300
How did the revampment of cities
(construction of new housing, 'litte box' neigborhoods, and urban centers )affect minorities whose neighborhoods sprawled through different parts of the area.
hint: think of how the government found area to build.
They were displaced as bulldozers often impeded on minority neighborhoods in the effort of building these structures.
300
The 'guinea pigs' the CIA used to test chemical weapons in the 50s.
Who are humans?
400
Despite the housewife trend, the number of ______ women rose to new highs, reaching 7.5 million.
employed.
400
Under him, whose land did the government sell to cut costs?
Native Americans
400
What is an example of levitowns?
400
Americans were obsessed with buying the newest appliances, gadgets, clothes, records, and cars. It is only right that the first US _____ would be built in town in the early 1950s.
malls, or shopping centers
400
In mid-1951, the CIA started to create more of these items and tested these items in various cities in the US and Canada.
What are weapons of mass destruction?
500
The difference between television and popular entertainment in earlier times.
In earlier times, entertainment was a communal activity. People went to watch movies or baseball games in crowds or groups. TV, however was enjoyed in private- at home.
500
Why is 'hidden-hand' presidency an appropriate description for Eisenhowers term as president?
Many of his accomplishments are things he prevented from happening. He did not remove New Deal programs, he avoided war despite spreading US political and military power, and knew how to manipulate his options. He knew exactly what he was doing.
500
What was Eisenhowers argument in building the highways?
He argued that they were national defense. If the ever underwent a ground invasion, the army would be able to transport troops and supplies across the country efficiently by means of highway.
500
The Federal Highway Act of 1956 created exactly what it is titled for. What industries would the building of these benefit?
General Motors (car companies in general), steel industry, and the concrete industry.
500
The reason why the CIA helped overthrow the Guatemalan Government in 1954.
The fear that Guatemala was leading towards communism. They wanted to stop the growing communism sphere of influence in the world.