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reconversion

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preparing america to shift from a war footing to a peacetime setting

both in industry and with the peeeples

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fears at the beginning of the decade (3)

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  • not enough jobs for veterans, lots of soldiers were unemploted
  • another great depressopm
  • expect earnings to fall
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3
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what was the gi bill

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helped the servicemen readjust to society

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4
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what were 3 benefits of the gi bill

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education payments
loans
readjustment wages

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what were the benefits of education

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higher incomes and a higher standard of living

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roughly how many people reaped the benefits of the gi bill

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1/3 of the population

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what’s the unemployment benefit of the gi bill

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1 year of benefits for veterans who couldn’t find a job

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8
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how were americans spending money

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consumer goods

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9
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how was the federal government spending money

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defense budget
- weapons
- foreign aid

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10
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what was the job market looking like

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growth of new service sector jobs

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11
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what was the economy like

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high employment and wages plus low inflation

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12
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what was important about consumer culture

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it defined a disctinctive lifestyle

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13
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how were there class changes

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expansion of the middle class

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14
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what did the diners club introduce in 1949

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plastic credit card

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15
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important change in food industry

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first fast food mcdonalds opened in 1948

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16
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what marked the emerging culture of consumption (4)

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  1. easy credit
  2. high volume fast food
  3. new forms of leisure
  4. DA TELEVISION
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17
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how was the housing market changed (4)

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1.
low cost mortgages
2. a lot of new homes being built
3. especially in suburbia
4. people moved from urban to suburban

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18
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how were people migrating within the country

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urban to suburban

that and cheap homes caused the rise of suburbia

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19
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levittown

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cookie cutter houses in suburbia all by this guy william

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20
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where did government encourage movement out of

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cities

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21
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was it more economically attractive to rent or buy a home

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buy

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22
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byt 1960 ____ americans lived in suburbia

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25%

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23
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federal housing administration

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The goals of this organization are: to improve housing standards and conditions; to provide an adequate home financing system through insurance of mortgage loans; and to stabilize the mortgage market.

What was the impact of the Federal Housing Administration?
The agency also extended the repayment period of home mortgages from 5–10 years to 20–30 years. The resulting reductions in monthly mortgage payments helped to prevent foreclosures, often made buying a home cheaper than renting, and allowed families with stable but modest incomes to qualify for a home mortgage

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highways

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In June 1956, Eisenhower signed the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 into law. Under the act, the federal government would pay for 90 percent of the cost of construction of Interstate Highways

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25
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cookie cutter homes

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identical houses

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26
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what was a direct result of suburbanization

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segregation

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27
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who did zoning laws exclude

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black buyers

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28
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white flight

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whites leaving because there were so many black people in the city

29
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what did the federal housing administration have to say about segregation

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incompatible racial groups should not be permitted to live in the same communities

30
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how long were black prohibited from buying houses in the suburbs

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until the 60s

31
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what did economic prosperity create

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mobility and the middle class

32
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redlining

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mortgage security maps would shade minority neighborhoods in red signifying risky investments

33
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why was it hard for minorities to improve housing

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because banks refused to loan money for new homes or improvements in the inner city neighborhoods where minorities lived

34
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where did minorities tyically live

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in inner city neighborhoods

35
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what was the consequence of housing segregation

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minority neighborhoods were left underdeveloped or in disrepair

this became a generational issue has the desparities trickled down through generations

36
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inequality in real estate hinders

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ability of the non homeowner to gain equity

37
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what was the women workforce looking like

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percentage of women working increased but the percentage of women working in male dominated fields decreased as the soldiers came back from ww2

38
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what was one result of the baby boom

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needed more teachers

39
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could married women work

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it wasn’t illegal but it was heavily frowned upon by society

40
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what job opportunities did african americans have

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only domestic laborers

41
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when were women supposed to marry

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young

42
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mrs. degree

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society’s idea that women only went to college to find a husband, not for actual education

43
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what was the goal of a married woman

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to be a stay at home mom, certainly not to have a job, and make sure to have as many kiddos as you can pop em out

44
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why was the nuclear family important during the cold war

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strong family unit will help us defeat the soviets in cold war

45
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nuclear family

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a family group consisting of most commonly, a father and mother and their children, from what is known as an extended family. Nuclear families can be any size, as long as the family can support itself and there are only children and two parents

46
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why were some insecure men against their wife working

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because it’s emasculating if your wife works

47
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what were some popular shows

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  • keeping up with the joneses
  • father knows best
  • i love lucy
  • leave it to beaver
48
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media portrayals of women

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the ideal suburban housewife who cared for the home and children appeared frequently in women’s magazines, in the movies and on television.

stupid and serving to men, needed men’s guidance

49
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what did shows commonly portray (2)

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  • white pickett fence
  • american dream
  • women stereotypes
50
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what did the artistic world revile (4)

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  1. conformity
  2. middle class materialism
  3. racism
  4. uniformity
51
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was rejecting materialism common

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no the people who did it were detatched from mainstream america

52
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beat generation aka

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beatniks

53
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what was the beat generation

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literary as well as social movement beginning in the late 1940s

54
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who led the beat generation

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poets, writers, artists

55
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beat generation rejected mainstream america and thought it was

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square and uncool

56
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members of the generation that came of age after ww2

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kids of the greatest generation

57
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beat generation was precursor to the

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hippies

58
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beat generation adopted mystical detatchment and relaxation of

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social and sexual tensions

59
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beat generation experimented with

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sexual freedom and mind altering drugs

60
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why is it called the beat generation

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sense of being beaten down

61
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who coined the name beat generation

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jack kerouac

62
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the beat generation had roots in

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jazz and street slang

63
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beatnik

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originally a derogatory term referencing the russian sputnik

kinda like ew communist because sputnik was the first russian satelittle launched into space

64
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which beat went to supreme court and why

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allen ginesberg because his book had profanity and obscenity and people took him to surpeme court and he won

redeeming social significance

65
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jack kerouac wrote

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on the road

66
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allen ginsberg wrote

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howl

67
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william s burroughs wrote

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naked lunch

68
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where were beat ideals most prominent

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started in nyc in the east coast but more prominent on the west coast

69
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