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Question 1

How many transistor radios were there by 1958

Answer 1

45 million

Question 2

What did the USA lose its place in the 1960s

Answer 2

As the world’s most important exporter

Question 3

What was the gold crisis in the 1960s

Answer 3

falling gold reserve

Question 4

What was the stagflation of the 1970s

Answer 4

businesses stopped expanding and wages stopped rising

Question 5

What caused the stagflation of the 1970s

Answer 5

• shift in position of the USA in the world economy
• other countries such as Japan took over the USA in technological development

Question 6

USA’s share of manufactured goods

Answer 6

1953- 19%
1973- 13%

Question 7

Teenage consumption in the 1950s

Answer 7

1959 survey showed that teenagers spent $10 billion a year

Question 8

1959 how many teenagers owned cars

Answer 8

1.5 million teenagers owned cars in 1959

Question 9

Home ownership in the 60s

Answer 9

1960- 62%
1940- 43%

Question 10

1960s living standards

Answer 10

93% had running water

Question 11

1949 wealth inequality

Answer 11

Richest 1% controlled 20.8% of the country’s wealth

Question 12

Americans living below the poverty line 1966

Answer 12

12% of white Americans
41% of non-whites

Question 13

Hispanic ghetto

Answer 13

South Bronx in NY

Question 14

What did Nixon emphasise

Answer 14

‘workfare’ not ‘welfare’
- Earned Income Tax Credit gave working poor with children $400 a year

Question 15

Nixon cutting welfare benefits while seeming not to

Answer 15

1970 Family Assistance Plan

Question 16

Carter administration trying to help both working and non-working poor

Answer 16

1978 National Cooperative Bank set up to give low interest loans to co-operative organisations largely in urban areas

Question 17

What created the 40 hour work week

Answer 17

1938 Fair Labour Standards Act

Question 18

Homelessness increasing in the 1930s

Answer 18

‘Hoovervilles’

Question 19

Stadium being rebuilt reflecting growing popularity of sports

Answer 19

NY Yankees Stadium rebuilt in 1923 to hold 53,000 people

Question 20

While men away at war Baseball

Answer 20

Girls Professional Baseball League played from 1943-1954
- grew audience of about 1,600 per game

Question 21

White collar workers in 1960

Answer 21

White Collar- 35 million
Blue Collar - 32 million

Question 22

1980s computer

Answer 22

Technology for home computer and internet connection had developed
- but only middle-class families could afford them

Question 23

Major baseball league attendance

Answer 23

1970s - 330 millions
(increase due to the efforts of sponsors)

Question 24

Car allowing the development of shopping malls

Answer 24

Between 1960-80, 30,000 malls were built

Question 25

Car ownership harming poor people

Answer 25

non-car transport infrastructure shrank but Greyhound buses carried millions every year

Question 26

Fed gov regulation planes

Answer 26

Federal Aviation Administration 1958- run traffic control systems

Question 27

First Boeing 747

Answer 27

1969- could carry 450 passengers