booklet three end of topic test

Question 1

What % of the world’s goods were produced by the USA in the 1950’s

Answer 1

Nearly 50%

Question 2

Who were two of the 1950’s teenage rebels

Answer 2

Marlon Brando, James Dean

Question 3

How did TV ownership change between 1948 and 1958

Answer 3

1948 = 0.4%
1954 = 55.7%
1958 = 83.2%

Question 4

What type of music started in the 1950’s and who was the most famous star

Answer 4

Rock and Role, Elvis Presley

Question 5

Summaries three ways in which WW2 helped the consumer industry boom in the 1950’s

Answer 5

Lend lease brought in an income after the war, employment was high due to all of the new factories, military factories were converted to make consumer goods, due the the lack of attacks on America

Question 6

What did the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act do

Answer 6

Spent $13 billion on veteran soldiers benefits

Question 7

How did President Truman try and help the economy

Answer 7

Unemployment insurance, increasing minimal wage

Question 8

What did the 1947 Marshall Plan do

Answer 8

Gave $17 billion to European countries to help their economies grow so that they could buy more goods of America and inadvertently pay them back

Question 9

What international events led to the US fear of communism growing

Answer 9

Russia taking over most of Europe

Question 10

Why did some people start getting called “Communist Sympathizers”

Answer 10

They were thought to be a potential communist because of an irrational fear

Question 11

What organization was set up to investigate communist sympathizers in the government, education, and film industry

Answer 11

House Committee of Un-American Activities

Question 12

who had served in several government departments under Truman and was convicted of being a spy in 1950

Answer 12

Alger Hiss

Question 13

Who came up with the famous slogan “Reds under every bed”

Answer 13

Joe McCarthy

Question 14

What famous people did McCarthy accuse of being communist

Answer 14

General Marshall and future President Eisenhower

Question 15

What did congress call McCarthy

Answer 15

Irresponsible bully

Question 16

How many Hollywood stars were on McCarthy’s blacklist

Answer 16

150

Question 17

How were blacks prevented from voting in some states

Answer 17

They were intimidated and lynched

Question 18

Give 3 examples of unfair treatment of black Americans

Answer 18

They had different diners, different wash facilities, and different seats in various circumstances

Question 19

What did the Linda Brown case change for black Americans

Answer 19

Opened integrated schools in the southern states of America

Question 20

What did Rosa Parks do

Answer 20

She refused to give up her sit for a white person on a bus resulting her in getting arrested

Question 21

What success did the Montgomery bus boycott have

Answer 21

It made segregation on public transport illegal

Question 22

What changes did the Greensboro Sit Ins introduce

Answer 22

It desegregated the town of Nashville, Tennessee

Question 23

Why did the freedom riots take place

Answer 23

They took place because the city of Birmingham, Alabama ignored segregation rules

Question 24

Who attended MLK’s March on Washington

Answer 24

250,000 people of which 200,000 were black and 50,000 white

Question 25

Why were there riots in the northern states between 1965-67

Answer 25

The police in those states were still very racist

Question 26

What were the name of the two biggest riots and when they

Answer 26

1965 - Watts riot

1967 - Detroit riot

Question 27

What was black Nationalsim

Answer 27

A civil rights movement that rejected the nonviolent approach

Question 28

Name three famous members of the Nation of Islam

Answer 28

Elijah Muhammad, Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay), Malcom X (Malcom Little)

Question 29

How and why did the SNCC change

Answer 29

Stokely Carmichael was chairmen and said USA was run by power

Question 30

What did the Black Panthers believe

Answer 30

Black Americans should arm themselves

Question 31

What improvements did the Civil Rights Act in 1964 make

Answer 31

Made it illegal for local governments do discriminate when voting

Question 32

What did the Selma March in 1965 hope to achieve

Answer 32

To allow for more black people to vote

Question 33

What improvements did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 introduce

Answer 33

They cut out the literacy tests allowing for more black people to become eligible to vote

Question 34

Summarise the Civil Rights Act of 1968

Answer 34

People could not discriminate when letting or selling houses

Question 35

What were Johnson’s 4 priorities for his Great Society Programme

Answer 35

Wanted to tackle unemployment, bad housing, inadequate medical care and the question of civil rights

Question 36

What act provided training to disadvantaged youths aged 16-21

Answer 36

Economic Opportunity Act

Question 37

Which act provided medical insurance for the over-65’s and hospital care for the poor

Answer 37

Medicare and Medicaid

Question 38

Why did the Great Society never really succeed

Answer 38

It was drowned out buy the publicity of the Vietnam War

Question 39

How did Johnson improve education

Answer 39

He spent $1.5 billion on secondary and primary education

Question 40

What did the NOW Bill or Rights demand. State four things

Answer 40

• Equal rights
• Maternity leave rights
• Tax deduction for home and childcare
• child day (care centres for children)

Question 41

Summarise the Roe vs Wade case

Answer 41

It made abortion legal

Question 42

List three other ways in which women campaigned for equal rights

Answer 42

they created NOW (which was a campaign for women’s rights), they threatened to go on strike, and they took part in the Miss America Protest