Questions for Chapters 28-32

1. What was one benefit that American soldiers received under the G.I. Bill?

*They received financial support for college or a vocational school.

They were granted monthly cash payments for their service.

They could receive health benefits for their extended families.

2. President Truman balanced the following interests as he considered how rapidly to demobilize the armed forces at the end of World War II EXCEPT:

*the amount of supplies available for the army and navy

the nation's strategic position in the world

the desire of servicemen to come home

the government's budget

3. Which of the following countries received economic assistance through the Marshall Plan?

*France

Poland

the Soviet Union

4. The United States and which other nation emerged as the world’s two dominant superpowers after World War II?

Germany 

Great Britain

*the Soviet Union

5. What ultimately happened as a result of the Baby Boom that followed World War II?

The government was forced to increase income taxes.

*More colleges and universities were built in the United States.

Social Security and other surviving New Deal programs failed.

6. Which of the following factors contributed most to population growth in the United States after World War II?

Treatments were found for several deadly diseases.

Life expectancy rose as a result of better life quality.

*American families began to have more children.

7. What was the greatest challenge to the movie industry in the 1950s?

*television

Communists

poor attendance in theaters

8. Prior to the Supreme Court decision <em> United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc.</em>, the movie industry was organized under which type of anticompetitive organizational structure?

*vertical integration

horizontal combination

collusion and cartels

9. The “Double V” campaign concerned victory over the Axis powers and which American issue?

poverty in U.S. cities

the rights of American women

*racial discrimination in the United States

10. What forced President Eisenhower to use federal troops to support the rights of African Americans in the South?

*resistance to an order of the Supreme Court

congressional override of his veto of civil rights legislation

southern governors' request for help in desegregating private schools

11. Which U.S. government agency was formed as part of the response to the thread from the Soviet Union?

the Strategic Services Unit

*the Central Intelligence Agency

the Federal Bureau of Investigation