1950s

Question 1

Rate at what services are produced

Answer 1

Worker productivity

Question 2

signed June 2nd, 1944, 3 weeks after D day, provides up to 1 year unemployment to vets who couldn’t find a job, financial aid, vets take out loans to build homes and businesses

Answer 2

GI BILL

Question 3

Provided very low interest loans. Allowed home owners to take out 5-10% on the house and then take out a 30 year loan

Answer 3

Federal housing administration FHA

Question 4

Leader in mass production of houses

Answer 4

William levitt

Question 5

Household that consists of a wife and a husband plus their children. Women were house makers and their husbands breadwinners

Answer 5

Nuclear family

Question 6

Could buy cars on credit

Answer 6

Car culture

Question 7

Only operated certain times, most popular appliance, changed politics due to commercials, ex leave it to beaver and I love Lucy that focused on the nuclear family

Answer 7

Television

Question 8

Pediatrician that parents went to for advice, wrote common sense book of baby and childcare

Answer 8

Dr Ben Spock

Question 9

Genre of music, Elvis was the king, Alan Fred said to be the father

Answer 9

Rock and roll musi

Question 10

Life wasn’t improved even with technology, society failed to provide equal opportunities for minorities, alcoholism rose not everyone was prospering from the 50s

Answer 10

Critics of the 50s

Question 11

50,000 people lived in poverty not everyone was prospering, poverty was invisible in the 50s

Answer 11

Michael Harrington and the other America

Question 12

Strategy to challenge segregation, for the legislative and excutive branch did not due enough to fight for civil rights, emerges as the most prominent civil rights groups

Answer 12

NAACP

Question 13

NAACP challenged a principal Supreme Court member. Argued that the “separate but equal doctrine” was unconstitutional

Answer 13

Brown vs board of education

Question 14

Brown 2

Answer 14

With all deliberate speed, all states must comply quickly

Question 15

Established a plan to slowly aw grate central high school. But gob foubus did not like the idea

Answer 15

Little rock high school

Question 16

Formed by rock Ralph Abernathy and MLK TO FIGHT for civil rights

Answer 16

Southern Christian leadership conference

Question 17

Extension of FDRs new deal lack bipartisan support, both party’s don’t like it

Answer 17

Truman’s fair deal

Question 18

Vp candidate for Thomas Dewey. Becomes gov CA, wanted to strike down plessy v ferguson but it would cause upset. Chief Justice; Eisenhower’s biggest mistake

Answer 18

Earl warren

Question 19

Firm segregationist at the time. Fathered a child with his black maid. States right party candidate

Answer 19

Storm Thurmond

Question 20

Organized to fight the Brown case in the south

Answer 20

Southern manifesto

Question 21

African American lawyer. Head lawyer of NAACP in court. Challenges school segregation

Answer 21

Thurgood

Marshall

Question 22

After the war prices we t up due to no more rationing and price control. There was a rush to buy goods

Answer 22

Post world wars two inflation