Ch 28 QA

 Question 1 5 out of 5 points Americans in the 1950s sought fulfillment from new patterns of consumerism and a demand for the "American Dream"-a car, a house and a family. Selected Answer: True Correct Answer: Tru e  Question 2 5 out of 5 points William Levitt is noted for which of the following? Selected Answer: a. The adaptation of assembly-line methods to the process of home construction. Correct Answer: a. The adaptation of assembly-line methods to the process of home construction.  Question 3 5 out of 5 points What phrase did President Eisenhower coin to describe the vulnerable neighbors of a country like Vietnam threatened with a Communist takeover? Selected Answer: c. "a row of dominoes” Correct Answer: c. "a row of dominoes”  Question 4 5 out of 5 points NASA was established to compete with what country's space program? Selected Answer: b. Soviet Union. Correct Answer: b. Soviet Union.  Question 5 5 out of 5 points The Congressional policy of termination essentailly provided one-time payments, but little else for Selected Answer: c. Native Americans. Correct Answer: c. Native Americans.  Question 6 5 out of 5 points In the election of 1960, which of the following WAS NOT a key component in Kennedy’s victory? Selected Answer: a. Foreign trade.

Correct Answer: a. Foreign trade.  Question 7 5 out of 5 points An earlier chapter pointed out that by 1920, more than half the American population lived in urban places. By 1960, 40 years later, half the population lived in Selected Answer: a. suburbs. Correct Answer: a. suburbs.  Question 8 5 out of 5 points Based on your reading on the decade of the 1950s, one immediate problem in the first few years after World War Two was Selected Answer: d. a very serious shortage of housing. Correct Answer: d. a very serious shortage of housing.  Question 9 5 out of 5 points Which one of the following  WAS NOT a major social or economic trend of the post-World War II era? Selected Answer: c. an cultural consensus enthusiastically supported by all segments of society Correct Answer: c. an cultural consensus enthusiastically supported by all segments of society  Question 10 5 out of 5 points All of the following offered, directly or implicitly, conscious dissent from the consensus-oriented, organizational culture of the 1950s  EXCEPT Selected Answer: b. the TV preachers. Correct Answer: b. the TV preachers.  Question 11 5 out of 5 points Consistent with suburbia’s leisure-minded lifestyle was a new household technology that burgeoned in the 1950s: _____________. Selected Answer: c. televisio n Correct Answer: c. televisio n  Question 12

Correct Answer: b. a significant increase in defense spending.  Question 18 5 out of 5 points Between the years 1950 and 1964, the American economy Selected Answer: d. grew at a consistent pace. Correct Answer: d. grew at a consistent pace.  Question 19 5 out of 5 points According to the text, all of the following contributed to the explosive growth of suburbs EXCEPT Selected Answer: b. television, which drew Americans toward the centers of cities. Correct Answer: b. television, which drew Americans toward the centers of cities.  Question 20 5 out of 5 points Which of the following statements about the foreign policies of the Eisenhower era is NOT true? Selected Answer: d. The summit meeting scheduled for 1960 between Dwight Eisenhower and Nikita Khrushchev was never held, because of the Berlin blockade. Correct Answer: d. The summit meeting scheduled for 1960 between Dwight Eisenhower and Nikita Khrushchev was never held, because of the Berlin blockade.