Foner Ch. 24
1. What was equated with consumption at 1959 American National Exhibition in Moscow?
2. T/F By 1960, 60% of Americans enjoyed middle class standard of living.
3. T/F The 1950’s was the last decade of the Industrial Age.
4. What was the name of the most famous suburban community?
5. Give an example of a centerless city.
6. What illustrates the change to consumerism as the central theme of freedom from economic
independence and democratic participation?
7. By the 1950’s what had replaced the newspaper as the most common source of information for
Americans?
8. T/F Divorce was lower in the 1950’s than in previous decades.
9. Why was “in God We Trust” added to money during the 1950’s?
10. By the end of the 1940’s the Four Freedoms had been reduced to Three Freedoms (Freedom of
Speech, Freedom of Worship, and what else?)
11. What did Milton Friedman declare as the necessary foundation for individual liberty?
12. T/F Conservatives agreed with President Eisenhower’s policies.
13. T/F Eisenhower rolled back New Deal policies such as Social Security and unemployment
insurance.
14. What was the largest public works project in American history?
15. Massive retaliation and brinkmanship referred to the US ______________policy.
16. What led to the end of the thaw of the Cold War in 1960?
17. What is meant by the Third World?
18. In what two countries did the CIA overthrow democratically elected governments in the 1950’s?
19. T/F John Kenneth Galbraith, C. Wright Mills, and Vance Packard wrote books that praised the
conformity of the 1950’s.
20. T/F Rock and Roll, comic books and the publication of Playboy were considered the cause of
juvenile delinquency.
21. Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg represented what group that railed against the mainstream?
22. Mendez v. Westminister 1946 and Brown v The Board of Education 1954 helped end
___________ in public schools.
23. What practice did Martin Luther King, Jr follow after studying Henry David Thoreau and Gandhi?
24. What was the Southern Manifesto?
25. In what state did Eisenhower send the 101st Airborne Division to escort students into Central
High School?
26. What issued was used against John F. Kennedy in the 1960 election?
27. What did Eisenhower warn Americans about in his Farewell Address?