Post-War Boom Flashcards

1
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The marketing strategy designed to encourage consumers to buy more goods

A

planned obsolesence

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2
Q

the first politician to skillfully use the new medium to television was

A

Nixon

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3
Q

during the 1950’s, ___ jobs declined

A

manufacturing

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4
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agency that regulates US communications industries, including radio and TV

A

FCC (federal communications commission)

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5
Q

Dr. Jonas Salk developed a vaccine for ___

A

poliomyelitis - polio

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6
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Announced in 1953, to give up responsibility for Native American tribes by eliminating federal economic support

A

Termination policy

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7
Q

With more money to spend and an increased number of products to buy, ___ became an American way of life

A

consumerism

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8
Q

The Dixiecrats nominated ___ to run for president in 1948

A

Strom Thurman

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9
Q

the population baby boom began in the

A

late 1940’s

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10
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One of the Southern delegates who, to protest Pres. Trumans civil rights policy formed the States’ Rights Dem Party

A

Dixiecrat

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11
Q

Most ___ enjoyed the prosperity of the postwar people

A

white americans

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12
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The Longoria incident prompted Mexican Americans to do all of the following except

A

return to Mexico

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13
Q

one of the benefits that the GI Bill of Rights offered to returning veterans was:

A

low interest loans

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14
Q

President Harry S Truman’s economic program

A

Fair Deal

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15
Q

A corporation that owns a number of smaller companies in unrelated business

A

conglomerate

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16
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the vast majority of new homes in the 1950’s were built in

A

suburbs

17
Q

A mexican laborer allowed to enter the US to work for a limited period of time during WWII

A

bracero

18
Q

Which city was the beat movement NOT centered in?

A

Dallas

19
Q

the tearing down and replacing of building in rundown inner-city neighborhoods

A

urban renewal

20
Q

the Fair Deal was an ambitious economic program proposed by

A

President Truman