chapter 19 Flashcards
GI Bill of Rights
free college
years worth of paid unemployment benefits
low interest loans
William Levitt
housing developer - mass production
built a home every 16 minutes
less then $7,000
Levittowns
housing shortage congress
financial support
OPA and wartime regulation controls
prices
wages
rents
Truman
defeats Dewey in 1948
democrat
republicans dominate after his time in office
what was the economy like after WWII
booming
largest economy in world
money to spend
created new jobs
labor strikes
Truman threatened to draft strikers into military and to take control of the railroads
Truman and racial discrimination
Commission on Civil Rights
integration of military
ended discrimination in gov employees
eliminated poll tax
suburbia
people leaving major cities and went to suburbs for safe, healthy, environment
baby boom
birth every 7 seconds
largest generation
Dr Spock
Eisenhower
created interstate system for war
consumerism
new products made
purchases on credit
throw away society
planned obsolescence
build things to last for short time
doughnut development
inner city decay
golden age
rapid expansion of media
