Eisenhower Domestic (No Civil Rights)

Question 1

How much more disposable income did people have?

Answer 1

30%

Question 2

How many McDonalds were there by 1960?

Answer 2

228

Question 3

What was the population increase between 1950 and 1960?

Answer 3

151mil to 180mil

Question 4

How many babies were born between 1945-64?

Answer 4

76 million

Question 5

How much was the baby industry worth?

Answer 5

$10 billion

Question 6

What was the median family income?

Answer 6

5250

Question 7

What is the name of houses built in the suburbs?

Answer 7

Levittowns

Question 8

How much was a Levittown house?

Answer 8

$8,000 (2 1/2 times income)

Question 9

What did Levittowns promote?

Answer 9

White flight

Question 10

What are some examples of rules in Levittowns?

Answer 10

mowing lawn regularly, no fences, no washing out on weekends

Question 11

What did people need to buy with Levittown houses?

Answer 11

Kitchens, furnishings etc

Question 12

Who was allowed in Levittowns?

Answer 12

White people only

Question 13

How many service workers were there?

Answer 13

7.6 million

Question 14

What were lots of service workers made of?

Answer 14

Teenagers (have spending money, new industry on teenage interests)

Question 15

How big was Eisenhower’s majority?

Answer 15

226 electoral college votes

Question 16

What was Eisenhower’s main policy?

Answer 16

Dynamic conservatism. Conservative with money, liberal with people

Question 17

What cuts did Eisenhower make?

Answer 17

defence cuts
budget 1953 $515 billion
1956 $370 billion

Question 18

What was the minimum wage increase? When?

Answer 18

1955 75 cents to $1

Question 19

How many people were added to social security benefits in 1954?

Answer 19

10 million

Question 20

What was Eisenhower criticised for being?

Answer 20

a do-nothing leader

Question 21

What vaccine was brought in? How many americans had it killed in 1952?

Answer 21

polio 57,000

Question 22

How many americans still admired McCarthy in 1954?

Answer 22

50%
62% republicans

Question 23

How did the downfall of McCarthy happen?

Answer 23

Nixon asks Lyndon Johnson to help produce TV show trials which puts McCarthy under pressure so he drinks more (alcoholic). He targets the army who can’t go to court due to state secrets so he is live on tv with no witnesses drunk. Trial April-June 1954.

Question 24

How many new homes were built between 1948 and 1958? How many were in the suburbs?

Answer 24

13mil, 11mil in suburbs

Question 25

What did Levittown's have in them?

Answer 25

village greens, shopping centres, swimming pools, bowling alleys

Question 26

How many new cars were manufactured in 1955?

Answer 26

7.9 million

Question 27

How many cars, on average, were scrapped each year in the 50s?

Answer 27

4.5 million

Question 28

How many workers were not engaged in manual labour by 1960?

Answer 28

21.2 million

Question 29

What was the favourite leisure activity for over 50% of americans?

Answer 29

watching tv

Question 30

How much was spent on advertising in 1950 and 1960?

Answer 30

1950- $5.7bil 1960- $11.9bil

Question 31

How much did private debt grow to by 1960? Why was this?

Answer 31

$104.8 bil to $263.3bil because of the launching of credit cards

Question 32

How many americans still lived in poverty? What was their income?

Answer 32

25% with an income under $3000 for a family of 4

Question 33

How many americans were unemployed in 1958?

Answer 33

5 million due to a recession

Question 34

What were the employment rates?

Answer 34

Consistently 55-60%

Question 35

How was the interstate funded?

Answer 35

There was a tax of 3 cents per gallon of petrol

Question 36

How did the interstate help the economy?

Answer 36

it meant people could travel for jobs and live in the suburbs and new businesses could be made like motels and fast food chains Employed millions

Question 37

How did the consumer society help the US on a world stage?

Answer 37

showed their economic superiority- superpower status. Kitchen debate- Khrushchev demanded a rapid increase in the production of consumer goods after seeing the US

Question 38

National Defence Education Act

Answer 38

1958, made from fears of Sputnik. Gave low cost loans to college students and federal funds to states to improve courses in science, maths and foreign languages

Question 39

How many homes had a TV?

Answer 39

90%

Question 40

Inflation v factory wages increase

Answer 40

2.8% to 8.6%