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Which benefits did the GI Bill of Rights offer to a veteran?
a) exemption from rationing of food and gasoline.
b) money for school, loans, for houses, farms, and businesses.
c) guaranteed acceptance into state and universities.
d) monthly allowances for unemployment.

What was the original purpose of the United Nations?
a) hunger prevention
b) disaster relief
c) conflict resolution
d) terror prevention

President Truman sent the US military forces to South Korea to
a) take over the fighting from the North Korean troops.
b) give South Korean troops cover and support.
c) defend US diplomats against the South Korean army.
d) protect the Chinese border to prevent the conflict from spreading.

In the 1950s the federal government began an urban renewal program mainly to
a) encourage community owned urban businesses.
b) discourage families from moving to the suburbs.
c) improve city services and urban housing.
d) decrease federal funding for highway construction.

What is one reason why some American women were discouraged during the postwar years?
a) People expected them to go to college regardless of their career goals.
b) There were not enough jobs to go around.
c) Only low salaries were offered for teaching and nursing jobs.
d) Society seemed to assume that a woman's principal role was a wife and mother.

During the 1950s musicians such as Elvis Presley helped what type of music become popular?
a) classical
b) rock n roll
c) jazz
d) bebop

One of the first decisions made b the United Nations was to
a) divide Palestine into separate Arab and Jewish states.
b) officially condemn the 1949 war on Isreal.
c) send peacekeeping troops to Palestine.
d) protest the division of Palestine.

In the 1950s Senator Joseph McCarthy claimed to know of Communists who were aiding the Soviet Union from inside the US State Department.
a) true
b) false
c)
d)

The term Cold War came to be used to describe the
a) conflict between Israel and its Arab neighbors.
b) resentment toward Germany that lingered following WWII
c) struggle for global power between the US and the Soviet Union.
d) campaign to purge the US government of known communists.

Dwight D. Eisenhower said the first task of his administration would be to
a) build a hydrogen bomb.
b) end the Korean War.
c) put a sto to inflation.
d) root out communist spies.

President Truman appointed Eleanor Roosevelt as one of the first US delegates to the
a) Potsdam Conference.
b) United Nations.
c) League of Nations.
d) Sun Belt

A new ____________swept America in the 1940s and 1950s when Americans again became preoccupied with fear of communists.
a) broom
b) Cold War
c) mop
d) Red Scare

In 1952 the Novel__________focused on the isolation from maintrream society felt by many African Americans.
a) The Catcher in the Rye
b) The Invisible Man
c) Esperanza Rising
d) The Lone Ranger

A crisis involving the ____________ which began when Britain, France, and Israel invaded Egypt, ended with a US -Soviet agreement to condemn the invasion.
a) Cold War
b) Red Scare
c) Suez Canal
d) McCarthyism

Some social critics complained that the suburban life was too heavily based on ______________.
a) popularity
b) consumer culture
c) McCarthyism
d) color of home

The new foreign policy the US developed to deal with the Cold War was based on the goal of ______________.
a) nonalignment
b) suburban living
c) containment
d) Pizza Hut

Suburban neighborhoods welcomed diverse populations.
a) false
b) true
c)
d)

In 1946 the US sent troops to Greece to help its monarchy put down Communist rebellion.
a) true
b) false
c)
d)

Many republicans did not support Trumana in the 1948 presidential election because of his support for civil rights. law.
a) true
b) false
c)
d)

The US joined nine Western European countries, along with Iceland and Canada, to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
a) true
b) false
c)
d)

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