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How was the shortage of housing solved?

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Assembly line mass produced houses

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What did the GI Bill of Rights include?

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Payed for part of tuition, 1 year of unemployment comp, and low interest on federally garunteed loans

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This is a residential town near a city

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Suburb

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Why did the unemployment rate rise after the war?

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Wartime production and contracts were cancelled

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What did the Cold War do for the defense budget?

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It kept it high and employed many

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How did Truman stop strikes?

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Be threatened to draft striking workers and order them to stay on the job

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How was Truman progressive?

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He had a civil rights commission and tried to ban poll taxes and lynching. He also integrated the armed forces in 1948

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These were southern democrats who opposed Truman’s civil rights policy, forming the States’ Rights Democratic Party

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Dixiecrats

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This proposed a national health insurance system, raising the minimum wage, extending social security, and building 810,000 housing units for low income families

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Fair deal

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What caused the democrats to lose power?

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Communism and alleged corruption

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What is Eisenhower known for doing?

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Cut taxes, raising the minimum wage, increased public housing funding, interstate highways, welfare, and dept of health and education

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When was the rosa parks thing?

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1955

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What kinds of job became more prevalent in the 50s?

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White collar

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This is a major corporation that includes smaller companies in unrelated fields

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Conglomerate

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This is a company that offers similar products and services in many locations

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Franchise

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Workers gained ____ but lost ____.

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Economic advancement, individuality

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This is a major increase in the US birthdate following WWII

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Baby boom

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What caused the baby boom?

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Reunions after the war, decreasing marriage age, desire for larger families, and confidence in the economy

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How were thousands of lives saved?

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Advanced medicine to fight at prevent childhood diseases

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This man developed the polio vaccine

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Dr. Jonas Salk

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What led to an increase in leisure?

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Labor saving devices t

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Where was the car necessary?

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The suburbs

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What caused the decline of railroads?

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Interstate highways

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What industries bloomed because of cars?

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Drive ins, restaurants, and malls

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This is the buying of material goods, equated with success in the 50’s

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Consumerism

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This is the strategy of designing products to become obsolete

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Planned obsolescence

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What did consumers use to make purchases?

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Credit cards

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What caused a boom in the advertising industry?

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Higher consumer spending

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This is A means of communication that reached large audiences

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Mass media

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This is a government agency that regulates TV, phones, radio, and other industries

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FCC

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What was 50’s TV called?

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The golden age of TV

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When was TV guide introduced?

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1953

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Why was TV criticized?

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It only depicted the idealized white American… No poor or minorities

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This is a social and artistic movement stressing self expression and non conformity with mainstream culture

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The best movement

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What were followers of the best movement called?

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Beats or beatniks

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This man wrote On the Road which was a nomadic search across America for authentic experiences

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On the Road

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What did the beat movement set the stage for?

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60s counterculturism

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When was R&B developed?

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The 50’s

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This man promoted rock and roll?

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DJ Alan Freed

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What was rock and roll classified as?

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R&B, blues, country, and pop with heavy rhythms and simple melodies

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Why did adults condemn rock and roll?

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It caused delinquency and immorality

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Who were poor in the 50s?

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Elderly, single moms and their kids, and minorities

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Where did the poor move to?

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Inner cities

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Why couldn’t cities maintain their schools and public transit and stuff?

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They lost businesses and the associated taxes

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This is replacing buildings in run down inner city neighborhoods with new stuff like highways and shopping centers

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Urban renewal

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These were Mexican labored allowed to work during WWII. Many stayed illegally to escape Mexico

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Braceros

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This man was a Mexican American in WWII who was killed in the Philippines and his local undertaker refused him funeral services

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Felix Longiria

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What did Longoria inspire?

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Stepping up the civil rights movement

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This was an Indian group made in 1944 to protect civil rights and retain culture

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National Congress of American Indians

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This is a 1953 policy to eliminate and redistribute reservation lande, pulling economic support

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Termination Policy

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When was the termination policy abandoned?

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1963

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