Chapter 25 Self-Quiz 1

. Several factors enhanced the economic growth of the 1950s. Of the following, which is not among the reasons?

Americans following World War II had money and they wanted to spend it.

Older, more traditional industries were strong, and new technologies were becoming increasingly important.

Americans remembered the Depression and the sacrifices of the war years, and they commonly saved their money for their children.

The build-up of the defense industry and foreign aid helped stimulate the economy.

. During the 1950s relations between workers and employers

were tense, and although strikes were rare, they were usually violent.

focused on each side making concessions to the other so that everyone got along and as a result both made money.

settled down and workers seldom challenged their employers.

were peaceful because the Republican Party tended to side with workers in labor disputes.

. In 1947, the basic four-room house mass-produced by Arthur Levitt's construction company was priced at:

less than $5,000.

less than $10,000.

about $20,000.

about $40,000.

. Which of these automobiles represented the ultimate symbol of material success in the 1950s?

Volvo.

Buick.

Pontiac.

Cadillac.

. Of all of the consumer products representative of the 1950s, which of the following symbolized the dreams and attitudes of the 1950s.

Televisions.

Computers.

Transistors.

Automobiles.

. In the years following World War II, a group of social scientists and writers noticed a disturbing uniformity across America. What did they find so disturbing about this uniformity and conformity?

They feared the loss of personal freedom and individuality that seemed basic to American life.

They feared that the growth of conformity could retard economic growth and prosperity.

They feared that conformity could lead to the destruction of the advances made in the civil rights movement.

All of the above.

. During the 1950s, Native Americans, Hispanics, and African Americans

lived in a segregated society.

faced discrimination in social and work situations.

did not enjoy the same personal economic growth as whites.

All of the above.

. American culture in the 1950s celebrated family "togetherness." Which of these was NOT marketed to appeal to that idea:

televisions

automobiles

Rock n roll

All of the above were marketed to appeal to that idea

. Despite tough talk about liberation, rollback, and massive retaliation, the Eisenhower administration tried to avoid direct confrontation with the two major communist powers, which were

Cuba and North Korea.

the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union.

The German Democratic Republic and Czechoslovakia.

the Chinese Nationalists and the USSR.

. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles called for the "liberation" of Eastern Europe from communist control but took no action when which country tried to leave the Soviet bloc?

Afghanistan.

Jordan.

Hungary.

Czechoslovakia.

. Wories about excessive consumerism helped spawn which movement

civil rights

rock n' roll

environmentalism

the space race

. Complete this quote from a 1957 Collier's magazine article: "Never in our 180 years history, has the United States been so aware of — or confused — about its _____."

role in the world.

interracial relations.

teenagers.

future obligations to other nations.

. In May 1954 the Supreme Court handed down its ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas. Which of the following does not characterize the consequences of the Court's findings in the Brown case?

The Court found public school segregation was unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment.

The Plessy decision was overturned.

The Supreme Court and Chief Justice Earl Warren entered into a period in which their decisions were generally simplistic and of limited importance.

The tenure of Chief Justice Warren was one of the most important in the history of the Supreme Court.

. All of the following were developments in the civil rights movement of the 1950s except:

The Supreme Court overturned Plessy v. Ferguson.

The "Southern Manifesto" was issued in Congress.

Federal troops were sent to desegregate Central High School in Little Rock.

A year-long boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, led to desegregation of the bus system.

. All of the following except which caused Americans to be fearful in the late 1950s?

Communist threats around the world.

A radical president who was in poor health.

The youth culture and the Beat movement.

The civil rights struggle.

. Where Truman had pledged to contain Communism, Eisenhower talked of rolling back Soviet power.

TRUE

FALSE

. "Third World" countries of the 1950s, struggling to free themselves from imperial domination, were often poor and undeveloped and subject to overtures from the United States and the Soviet Union.

TRUE

FALSE

. In the middle 1950s, American adults worried about a wave of juvenile delinquency that they believed was encouraged by movies that seemed to glorify the defiance of authority.

TRUE

FALSE

. Rosa Parks filed the plaintiff's suit in the Brown v. Board of Education case.

TRUE

FALSE

. In the late 1950s, Americans' attitudes were characterized as "uneasy" because they sensed their world was not as secure as they had once believed.

TRUE

FALSE

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