History Unit 6 Flashcards
GI Bill of Rights
Servicemen’s Readjustment act
education for veterans
and federally guaranteed loans.
Truman and Strikes
steelworkers,coal miners, and railroad workers went on strike
Truman refused to let country cripple, threatened to draft them as soldiers and force them to keep working.
Changes in job market in 1950s
Most worked in higher paying jobs: clerical, managerial, professional occupations. services in sales and advertising.
Suburbs
Most worked in cities but fewer lived there
every large city was surrounded by suburbs
embodied the American dream of an affordable single family house good schools safe healthy environment for children.
Consumerism
buying material goods, came to be equated with success
Television
New Mass media, 1960s most americans had the television.
Federal Communications Commission- government agency that regulates and licenses television (Media) agencies.
Beat Movement
expressed the social and literary nonconformity of artists, poets, and writers.
Followers called beatniks
Relative prosperity of post- war period
consumer products soared 25 percent, double the increase of the previous three years.
Conversation to peacetime economy
Congress eventually reestablished controls similar to the wartime controls on prices, wages, and rents.
Post-war economic recovery
Americans had alot of money to spend, economy boomed, new jobs, bought more stuff, Cold war helped economic growth.
Election of 1984
Democrates nominated Truman
Dixiecrats- nomintated Strom Thurmond
Truman won
Politics and use of television
Nixon used television as a means of broadcasting
Standardization in American business
No one wanted to be out of the norm
