APUSH Period 8: Chapter 26 - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Satellite launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, causes U.S. to kick into high gear over fears that the USSR is surpassing the U.S. in technology	Sputnik	93%
Many people have children at the same time, peaked in 1957 and saw the population explode in number	Baby Boom	86%
U.S. president (#34), spoke on the military-industrial complex at his final address to the nation. Pushed Congress to give extra money for education after USSR beats America to space	Dwight D. Eisenhower	50%
Reverend who spread affirmations of faith, became the nation's lead Evangelical preacher after his revivals and crusades were viewed by hundreds of thousands of people	Billy Graham	43%
Southern and southwestern states, saw most of suburban living	Sunbelt	36%
Symbolic contest between the U.S. and USSR over which country had a better standard of living	Kitchen Debate	29%
A group of young white writers and poets in San Francisco, loved jazz and hated middle-class materialism	Beats	21%
Revolutionized suburban housing, applied mass-production techniques, made homes extremely quickly	William J. Levitt	21%
Stabilized currencies and provided a predictable monetary environment for trade, U.S. dollar serves as the benchmark	International Monetary Fund	14%
Employed 3.5 million Americans in 1961, rooted in business-government partnerships post-WWII, always ready for war after WWII ended	Military-Industrial Complex	14%
Provided loans for reconstruction of war-torn Europe and newly independent third-world countries	World Bank	14%
Location of an international conference that created important post-war financial organizations	Bretton Woods	7%
1958, funneled billions into American universities after USSR launches the first satellite	National Defense Education Act	7%
Cultural phenomenon, term used for youth in 1950s America	Teenager	7%
Helped former soldiers purchase homes without a down payment, sparked a boom in construction, created jobs, and lifted consumer spending	Veterans Administration	7%
Became a major factor in U.S. economic life, nation's major industrial corporations now operate with union contracts	Collective Bargaining	0%
Wrote Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care, many mothers find his new approach to raising the youth liberating	Dr. Benjamin Spock	0%
Influential trumpeter who developed a "cool" variation of bebop music	Miles Davis	0%
1956, authorized $26 billion to be spent on a nationally integrated highway system, needed as there were more cars and concerns about evacuation in case of a nuclear attack	National Interstate and Defense HIghway Act	0%

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