Chapter 26 Flashcards
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Demobalization
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- sending home members of the army
- Helped decrease military spending by 2/3
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GI Bill of Rights
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- eased the return of World War II veteransby providing education and employment aid
- Paid for college tuition if veteran got into a school
- Gave low interest loans to veterans to buy homes & start businesses
- Increased industry and public works
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Baby Boom
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- 27% increase in population by 1955
- Increase in child births- More kids–> More support for growing economy
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Productivity
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- the rate at which goods are produced or servicesperformed
- Increases after WWII
- Going from war-time economy to peacetime economy
- Making instruments of war to making commercial products
- Leads to many new innovations
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Taft-Hartley Act
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- a law that restricted the power of laborunions
- Anti-labor piece of legislation
- Outlawed the closed shop
- Place where only union members can be hired
- Took away some of the rights that unions were give by the New Deal
- Vetoed by Truman, but Congress overrode the veto
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Fair Deal
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- President Truman’s program to expand NewDeal reforms
- Grows social welfare system
- Takes 1/3 of the US budget
- Every president does this up until Reagan
- For the American people (the poor)
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Interstate Highway Act
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- 1956 law that authorized thespending of $32 billion to build 41,000 miles of highway
- Connect Suburban areas to cities, and help w/ trade
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Sunbelt
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- name given to the region of states in the Southand the Southwest
- Many people migrated to Houston, Texas, and Los Angeles
- Many jobs are available there
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Service Sector
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- businesses that provide services rather thanmanufactured goods
- Ex: Home cleaners
- More people wanted to be lawyers after WWII
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Information Industry
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- businesses that provide informationalservices
- Help put computers in businesses (built and operated first computers)
- Payrolls could now be done w/ computers
- Help put computers in businesses (built and operated first computers)
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Franchise Business
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- to allow a company to distribute itsproducts or services through retail outlets owned byindependent operators
- Have the same experience at the same place throughout the country
- Point: serve as many people as possible
- Ex: McDonalds
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Multinational Corporation
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- companies that produce andsell their goods and services all over the world
- Establish branches abroad
- Ex: Coca-Cola, McDonalds
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AFL-CIO
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- in 1955, the American Federation of Labor (AFL)and the Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO) laborunions united
- Influence in Post-WWII era
- More jobs–> more people in labor unions
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California Master Plan
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- called for three tiers of higher education:research universities, state colleges, and communitycolleges, all of which were to be accessible to all of thestate’s citizens
- Many people start moving to California (great schools like Cal-Berkley offered free tuition)
- Residents of Cal didn’t have to pay for schooling
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Consumerism
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- Americans buy things using credit cards (No longer use cash)
- Borrow money and pay it back later- Leads to the creation of debit card
- More power for buying
- Financial institutions make more money cuz they lend money at interest
- large-scale buying, much of it on credit
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Median Family Income
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- measure of average family income
- 1950s: Average 3300 a year
- 1957s: Average 5400 a year
- Leads to more spending cuz more money in pocket
- Some families can buy above their means
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Nuclear Family Income
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- ideal or typical household with a father,mother, and children
- Traditional American family
- Mom, dad, children (sometimes grandparents)
- Changed now w/ gay couples, divorce
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Benjamin Spock
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- Taught people how to raise your children?
- Positive feedback, spoil them –> positive results
- Didn’t believe in spanking
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Rock n Roll
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- Counter-culture
- music originated in the gospel and blues traditionsof African Americans
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Elvis Presley
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- First successful rock and roll artist
- Showed up on the Ed Sullivan show
- Refused to shoot from the waste down (too suggestive)
- Showed up on the Ed Sullivan show
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Beatnick
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- Similars to hippies
- Boys grow hair longer (facial hair), sloppy appearance
- Oriented towards the arts (poetry, music, movies..)
- First use of drugs
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Innercity
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- Urban America
- Cities age, gross parts are known as the ghetto or slum
- Crime is big (gang violence)
- Cities age, gross parts are known as the ghetto or slum
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Urban Renewal
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- Tears down ghettos and builds homes, schools, fire stations
- Would give out loans for people to start businesses
- Drives away crime in that area, and then crime would shift somewhere else
- Never ending (Chicago, LA, Boston, New York City)
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Termination Policy
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- Involves Treatment of Native American
- Native Americans were dependent on federal government
- Attempt to Assimilate Native American back into American society
- Make them like every other citizen
