US9 : The G. I. Bill, polio vaccine and Interstate Highway Act

What was one of the impacts of the Baby Boom?

(a)  

• Increase in demand for housing
• Decrease in military spending

• Decrease in federal highway construction

• Reduction in job creation

What did the GI Bill (Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944) provide for veterans?

• Low interest loans for home purchases

• Federal aid for adjusting to military life

• Low interest loans to start businesses

• Federal aid to attend college

What contributed to increased consumption in the 1950s?

• Reduced employment opportunities

• Decrease in population

• Decrease in disposable income

• Growing middle class with increased disposable income

The polio vaccine ...

(a)  

• was first tested on animals in 1970
• was discovered by accident in 1940
• was developed by Dr. Albert Einstein in 1960
• was developed by Dr. Jonas Salk in 1955

The Interstate Highway Act created ...

• a regional network of highways in the United States
• a nationwide network of highways in the United States
• network of highways across the North American continent

• massive spending plan to repair roads

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) The Marshall Plan

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(b) The Truman Doctrine

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(c) Domino theory

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(d) Containment policy

• Suggested that if one country fell to communism, neighboring countries would also fall

• Stated that the United States would provide support to countries threatened by communism

• Spending plan to help Europe rebuild after WW2

• Strategy developed by the United States during the Cold War to prevent the spread of communism