Exam 30: The 1950s: Affluence and Anxiety in an Atomic Age

In 1954, all of the following were major TV shows EXCEPT:

The postwar era witnessed tremendous economic depression and failing social contentment.

Newsweek magazine discouraged women from even attending college when it proclaimed that:

How did religious revival and neo-orthodoxy fit into the culture of the 1950s?

Suburban growth was spurred by all of the following EXCEPT:

The music Alan Freed labeled rock and roll was actually:

By 1960, about 65 percent of Americans

Show briefly how playwrights, novelists, painters, and the Beats reacted to the corporate life.

Trace the rise of youth culture in the 1950s.

The postwar economic boom was fueled mainly by:

Most blacks who moved to Chicago were fleeing terrible poverty in:

The location of William Levitt's first suburban development was:

Due to the overall prosperity of the decade, blacks were able to close the income gap with whites by the end of the 1950s.

The African American writer who explored the theme of social alienation in Invisible Man was:

Blacks who moved to northern cities found:

Why did Eisenhower's popularity decline between 1956 and 1958?

Two decades after 1940:

How did the image of women reflect the corporate life of the 1950s?

Alan Freed was a notable:

Detail the provisions and effects of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act, more popularly known as the GI Bill.