eQuizShow

US History CH 17

Vocabulary

Question: to merge
Answer: assimilate

Question: a corporation that sells its goods and services all over the world.
Answer: multinational

Question: the act of disbanding
Answer: demobiliizing

Question: an independently owner retail outlet of a larger company
Answer: franchise

Question: a workers output per hour of work
Answer: productivity

Questions 1

Question: The National Defense Education Act allocated federal funds to train _________________________.
Answer: scientists

Question: During the 1950s the age at which people first married ______________________________.

Answer: decerased

Question: How did the flight of the middle to the suburbs hurt cities economically?
Answer: the middle class paid a large share of the taxes

Question: The Marshall Plan generated economic growth by _____________________________________________.
Answer: stimulating foreign demand for American products

Question: The postwar economy suffered severe ______________________________.
Answer: inflation

Questions 2

Question: What contributed to a surge in postwar home construction?
Answer: loans to war veterans

Question: Immigrant groups in America lacked political power because of __________________________________________.(2 things)
Answer: language barriers and threat of deportation

Question: On which civil rights issue did Truman make progress?
Answer: Desegregation of the military

Question: What made the scale of suburban growth possible?
Answer: interstate highways

Question: Which party split up during the election of 1948?
Answer: Southern Democrats

Questions 3

Question: Rock and Roll became a symbol of ________________________
Answer: youth culture

Question: Many social critics in the 1950s criticized an American emphasis on _________________________
Answer: conformity

Question: What changed the way politicians ran for office?
Answer: television

Question: In "The Other America", Michael garrington exposed problems dealing with what?
Answer: poverty

Question: Why did many American cities begin to decline after World War II?
Answer: Flight of middle class families

Questions 4

Question: Who emphasized the importance of nurturing children?
Answer: Dr. Benjamin Spock

Question: Which president maintained existing New Deal programs?
Answer: Eisenhower

Question: What made the scale of suburban growth possible?
Answer: interstate highways

Question: In the 1950s, the American government encouraged Native Americans to _________________________
Answer: assimilate into American society

Question: What led Congress to increase funding for education?
Answer: the Soviet Union's space program