Post-War Boom Flashcards
The marketing strategy designed to encourage consumers to buy more goods
planned obsolesence
the first politician to skillfully use the new medium to television was
Nixon
during the 1950’s, ___ jobs declined
manufacturing
agency that regulates US communications industries, including radio and TV
FCC (federal communications commission)
Dr. Jonas Salk developed a vaccine for ___
poliomyelitis - polio
Announced in 1953, to give up responsibility for Native American tribes by eliminating federal economic support
Termination policy
With more money to spend and an increased number of products to buy, ___ became an American way of life
consumerism
The Dixiecrats nominated ___ to run for president in 1948
Strom Thurman
the population baby boom began in the
late 1940’s
One of the Southern delegates who, to protest Pres. Trumans civil rights policy formed the States’ Rights Dem Party
Dixiecrat
Most ___ enjoyed the prosperity of the postwar people
white americans
The Longoria incident prompted Mexican Americans to do all of the following except
return to Mexico
one of the benefits that the GI Bill of Rights offered to returning veterans was:
low interest loans
President Harry S Truman’s economic program
Fair Deal
A corporation that owns a number of smaller companies in unrelated business
conglomerate
the vast majority of new homes in the 1950’s were built in
suburbs
A mexican laborer allowed to enter the US to work for a limited period of time during WWII
bracero
Which city was the beat movement NOT centered in?
Dallas
the tearing down and replacing of building in rundown inner-city neighborhoods
urban renewal
the Fair Deal was an ambitious economic program proposed by
President Truman
