Review Questions
- Truman referred to his program of economic and social reform as the ________.
- New Deal
- Square Deal
- Fair Deal
- Straight Deal
- Which of the following pieces of Truman’s domestic agenda was rejected by Congress?
- the Taft-Hartley Act
- national healthcare
- the creation of a civil rights commission
- funding for schools
- How did the GI Bill help veterans return to civilian life? What were its limitations?
- What was the policy of trying to limit the expansion of Soviet influence abroad?
- restraint
- containment
- isolationism
- quarantine
- The Truman administration tried to help Europe recover from the devastation of World War II with the ________.
- Economic Development Bank
- Atlantic Free Trade Zone
- Byrnes Budget
- Marshall Plan
- What was agreed to at the armistice talks between North and South Korea?
- The name of the first manmade satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, was ________.
- Triton
- Cosmolskaya
- Pravda
- Sputnik
- The first Levittown was built ________.
- in Bucks County, Pennsylvania
- in Nassau County, New York
- near Newark, New Jersey
- near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- How did suburbanization help the economy?
- The disc jockey who popularized rock and roll was ________.
- Bill Haley
- Elvis Presley
- Alan Freed
- Ed Sullivan
- What challenges did Hollywood face in the 1950s?
- The NAACP lawyer who became known as “Mr. Civil Rights” was ________.
- Earl Warren
- Jackie Robinson
- Orval Faubus
- Thurgood Marshall
- The Arkansas governor who tried to prevent the integration of Little Rock High School was ________.
- Charles Hamilton Houston
- Kenneth Clark
- Orval Faubus
- Clark Clifford
- What was the significance of Shelley v. Kraemer?