Chapter 28

Question 1

What made the West grow so much?

Answer 1

federal spending and investments on dams, power station, highways and other projects that improved the economy. Due to improved highways it gave a rapid growth of oil fields Also the climate attracted more migrants from the east to LA.

Question 2

What did the state governments in the west invest heavily on?

Answer 2

Universities.

Question 3

Keynesian Economics

Answer 3

An increase in private demand which stimulated economic growth and reduced unemployment.

Question 4

what was The “Post War Contract?”

Answer 4

Workers in steel, automobile, and other large unionized industries were receiving generous increases in wages and benefit.

Question 5

What were transistors able to do?

Answer 5

It made possible the miniaturization of many devices such as radio, tv, audio equipment, hearing aids, and were also important in aviation, weaponry and satellites.

Question 6

What was the Apollo program?

Answer 6

The purpose was to land men on the moon.

Question 7

Describe the culture of the 1950s: consumerism, suburbs and families

Answer 7

The middle class grew substantially, Economic growth & prosperity, better jobs, houses, race(similar age and background)

-entertainment:hula-hoop, walt disney(disneyland)

Question 8

What are some new technology that drove economic expansion?

Answer 8

Dishwasher, garbage diposer, Tv, Stereo, hi-fis.

Question 9

How did the highways impact American?

Answer 9

It made traveling faster. Being able to get into major city. Highways also encouraged the movement of economic activities manufacturing in particular out of cities and into suburban and rural areas where land was cheap. This enabled families to live in bigger homes with bigger lots, and mad it easier for families to move into homes. It transformed the landscape of retailing.

Question 10

What was levittowns

Answer 10

low priced homes for

• young couples,married, war veteran
• ppl eager to start a fam
• assisted by low cost gov subsidized mortgages provided by the GI Bill
• 2 rooms and every house was identical.

Question 11

Why did people want to live in Suburbs?

Answer 11

Many people were attracted by the idea of living in a community populated by people the same age and background to form friendships and social circles.

Question 12

How did Television influence American Culture?

Answer 12

TV had replaced newspaper, magazines, and radios. Television replaced the radio as the dominant form of home entertainment

Question 13

What did elementary schools and secondary school really focus on teaching their students?

Answer 13

The teaching of science, mathematics, and foreign languages

Question 14

Who were “beats”

Answer 14

They were a group of young poets, writers, and artists who wrote harsh critiques of what they thought of the american life. The hearts were a widespread rebellion young americans.

Question 15

What is the importance of the new rock and roll music?

Answer 15

• became a symbol for youth culture especially appealed to the rebellious teenage audience
• helped bridge a gap between white and black music

Question 16

Where was the “Other America”?

Answer 16

• not everyone experienced prosperity; 35 million Americans lived below the poverty line (defined as a family of four with an annual income of less than $3,000)
• federal policy in the 1950s often contributed to the situation rather than to help resolve it

Question 17

Civil Rights Movement: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Plessey v. Ferguson, Montgomery bus boycott (M.L. King)

Answer 17

-ruled that “separate but equal” schools for blacks and whites were inherently unequal and therefore were a violation of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

BUS Boycott: the Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public transportation was unconstitutional

Question 18

McCarthyism

Answer 18

-Senator McCarthy attacked the armed forces went to a congressional hearing where the public saw him as a villain/buffoon and condemned him for conduct unbecoming a senator 3 yrs later w/little public support left, he died from alcoholism

Question 19

John F Dulles and Massive retaliation

Answer 19

respond to communist threats relying on the deterrent of massive retaliatory power(nuclear weapons) - more bang for the buck

Question 20

Crisis in Vietnam

Answer 20

when French troops became surrounded in a disastrous siege in North Vietnam, Eisenhower refused to permit direct American military intervention in Vietnam, claiming that neither Congress nor America’s other allies would support such action