What was the name of the 1941 act that gave the president the power to give aid to countries fighting in a war?
Lend-Lease Act
Neutrality Act
War Production Act
The production of which new drug boosted the pharmaceutical industry during World War Two?
Paracetamol
Chlorphenamine
Penicillin
To the nearest million, how many Americans were unemployed by 1945?
8 million
1 million
16 million
Which American state became the centre of scientific and technological development?
Indiana
Mississippi
California
What was the name of President Harry Truman’s plan to improve the lives of ordinary Americans?
New Deal
Fair Deal
New Frontier
What term is used to describe the process of buying an item in instalments over a period of time?
Mortgage
Rental agreement
Hire purchase
What was the name of the first planned suburb in the USA, built just outside New York in 1945?
Levittown
Hooverville
Cathedral Heights
Approximately how many babies were born each year in the USA between 1954 and 1964?
4 million
Who wrote The Other America, a book about American poverty, in 1962?
Adlai Stevenson
Henry J Kaiser
Michael Harrington
What percentage of the US population lived below the poverty line according to the 1962 book The Other America?
25 per cent
40 per cent
60 per cent