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

Ralph Ellison wrote Invisible Man.

During the 1950s, the income gap between whites and blacks:

Jackson Pollock pioneered the style of painting known as:

Houses in Levittown in the early 1950s all sold for just under:

With the end of World War II, women workers were encouraged to:

Describe the growth in the postwar American economy. What factors might account for this growth?

In The Affluent Society, John Kenneth Galbraith pointed out the:

Before becoming president, Eisenhower was most shaped by his experience in:

In regard to the Rosenbergs, who had been convicted of atomic espionage, President Eisenhower:

Elvis Presley's recordings:

The phrase "In God We Trust" was added to coins and currency in the 1950s.

The years during and after World War II witnessed tremendous growth in big business.

By the mid-1950s, most workers:

Society's message to women in the 1950s was that they should strive to combine motherhood and professional careers.

Secretary of State John Foster Dulles could be viewed as a sixteenth-century religious zealot in that he:

In the postwar era, the trend in the corporate sector was toward:

By the 1950s, suburban life was marked by an increasing:

Discuss the civil rights movement in the 1950s. What civil rights did blacks achieve in that decade?

How did America become involved in Indochina? How did that involvement escalate during Eisenhower's administration?

By 1960, nine out of ten homes in the United States had a television set.