Ch 27 Flashcards
How was the shortage of housing solved?
Assembly line mass produced houses
What did the GI Bill of Rights include?
Payed for part of tuition, 1 year of unemployment comp, and low interest on federally garunteed loans
This is a residential town near a city
Suburb
Why did the unemployment rate rise after the war?
Wartime production and contracts were cancelled
What did the Cold War do for the defense budget?
It kept it high and employed many
How did Truman stop strikes?
Be threatened to draft striking workers and order them to stay on the job
How was Truman progressive?
He had a civil rights commission and tried to ban poll taxes and lynching. He also integrated the armed forces in 1948
These were southern democrats who opposed Truman’s civil rights policy, forming the States’ Rights Democratic Party
Dixiecrats
This proposed a national health insurance system, raising the minimum wage, extending social security, and building 810,000 housing units for low income families
Fair deal
What caused the democrats to lose power?
Communism and alleged corruption
What is Eisenhower known for doing?
Cut taxes, raising the minimum wage, increased public housing funding, interstate highways, welfare, and dept of health and education
When was the rosa parks thing?
1955
What kinds of job became more prevalent in the 50s?
White collar
This is a major corporation that includes smaller companies in unrelated fields
Conglomerate
This is a company that offers similar products and services in many locations
Franchise
Workers gained ____ but lost ____.
Economic advancement, individuality
This is a major increase in the US birthdate following WWII
Baby boom
What caused the baby boom?
Reunions after the war, decreasing marriage age, desire for larger families, and confidence in the economy
How were thousands of lives saved?
Advanced medicine to fight at prevent childhood diseases
This man developed the polio vaccine
Dr. Jonas Salk
What led to an increase in leisure?
Labor saving devices t
Where was the car necessary?
The suburbs
What caused the decline of railroads?
Interstate highways
What industries bloomed because of cars?
Drive ins, restaurants, and malls
This is the buying of material goods, equated with success in the 50’s
Consumerism
This is the strategy of designing products to become obsolete
Planned obsolescence
What did consumers use to make purchases?
Credit cards
What caused a boom in the advertising industry?
Higher consumer spending
This is A means of communication that reached large audiences
Mass media
This is a government agency that regulates TV, phones, radio, and other industries
FCC
What was 50’s TV called?
The golden age of TV
When was TV guide introduced?
1953
Why was TV criticized?
It only depicted the idealized white American… No poor or minorities
This is a social and artistic movement stressing self expression and non conformity with mainstream culture
The best movement
What were followers of the best movement called?
Beats or beatniks
This man wrote On the Road which was a nomadic search across America for authentic experiences
On the Road
What did the beat movement set the stage for?
60s counterculturism
When was R&B developed?
The 50’s
This man promoted rock and roll?
DJ Alan Freed
What was rock and roll classified as?
R&B, blues, country, and pop with heavy rhythms and simple melodies
Why did adults condemn rock and roll?
It caused delinquency and immorality
Who were poor in the 50s?
Elderly, single moms and their kids, and minorities
Where did the poor move to?
Inner cities
Why couldn’t cities maintain their schools and public transit and stuff?
They lost businesses and the associated taxes
This is replacing buildings in run down inner city neighborhoods with new stuff like highways and shopping centers
Urban renewal
These were Mexican labored allowed to work during WWII. Many stayed illegally to escape Mexico
Braceros
This man was a Mexican American in WWII who was killed in the Philippines and his local undertaker refused him funeral services
Felix Longiria
What did Longoria inspire?
Stepping up the civil rights movement
This was an Indian group made in 1944 to protect civil rights and retain culture
National Congress of American Indians
This is a 1953 policy to eliminate and redistribute reservation lande, pulling economic support
Termination Policy
When was the termination policy abandoned?
1963
