1950s Flashcards
Rate at what services are produced
Worker productivity
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
GI BILL
Provided very low interest loans. Allowed home owners to take out 5-10% on the house and then take out a 30 year loan
Federal housing administration FHA
Leader in mass production of houses
William levitt
Household that consists of a wife and a husband plus their children. Women were house makers and their husbands breadwinners
Nuclear family
Could buy cars on credit
Car culture
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
Television
Pediatrician that parents went to for advice, wrote common sense book of baby and childcare
Dr Ben Spock
Genre of music, Elvis was the king, Alan Fred said to be the father
Rock and roll musi
Life wasn’t improved even with technology, society failed to provide equal opportunities for minorities, alcoholism rose not everyone was prospering from the 50s
Critics of the 50s
50,000 people lived in poverty not everyone was prospering, poverty was invisible in the 50s
Michael Harrington and the other America
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
NAACP
NAACP challenged a principal Supreme Court member. Argued that the “separate but equal doctrine” was unconstitutional
Brown vs board of education
Brown 2
With all deliberate speed, all states must comply quickly
Established a plan to slowly aw grate central high school. But gob foubus did not like the idea
Little rock high school
Formed by rock Ralph Abernathy and MLK TO FIGHT for civil rights
Southern Christian leadership conference
Extension of FDRs new deal lack bipartisan support, both party’s don’t like it
Truman’s fair deal
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
Earl warren
Firm segregationist at the time. Fathered a child with his black maid. States right party candidate
Storm Thurmond
Organized to fight the Brown case in the south
Southern manifesto
African American lawyer. Head lawyer of NAACP in court. Challenges school segregation
Thurgood
Marshall
After the war prices we t up due to no more rationing and price control. There was a rush to buy goods
Post world wars two inflation
