Review Questions

1. Truman referred to his program of economic and social reform as the ________.

New Deal
Square Deal
Fair Deal
Straight Deal

2. 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

3. How did the GI Bill help veterans return to civilian life? What were its limitations?

4. What was the policy of trying to limit the expansion of Soviet influence abroad?

restraint
containment
isolationism
quarantine

5. 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

6. What was agreed to at the armistice talks between North and South Korea?

7. The name of the first manmade satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, was ________.

Triton
Cosmolskaya
Pravda
Sputnik

8. The first Levittown was built ________.

in Bucks County, Pennsylvania
in Nassau County, New York
near Newark, New Jersey
near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

9. How did suburbanization help the economy?

10. The disc jockey who popularized rock and roll was ________.

Bill Haley
Elvis Presley
Alan Freed
Ed Sullivan

11. What challenges did Hollywood face in the 1950s?

12. The NAACP lawyer who became known as “Mr. Civil Rights” was ________.

Earl Warren
Jackie Robinson
Orval Faubus
Thurgood Marshall

13. The Arkansas governor who tried to prevent the integration of Little Rock High School was ________.

Charles Hamilton Houston
Kenneth Clark
Orval Faubus
Clark Clifford

14. What was the significance of Shelley v. Kraemer?