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What class increased?

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The middle class

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When the war was over, what discontinued?

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Manufacture jobs that produced tanks, guns, weapons,etc; many people lost their jobs

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Define demobilization

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Bringing home soldiers

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How many soldiers were in the army before and after demobilization?

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12 million before - 3 million after

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What MADE the Americans worried and scared?

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A poll showed 60% would fall in earnings and not get jobs

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What did the government do to help avoid depression?

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Passed the GI Bill to help the soldiers

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What were the 3 aspects of the GI Bill

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It provided year of employment
Provided money for college
And helped veterans build houses or jump start business

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Which aspect of the GI Bill was the greatest?

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Education - many soldiers were just finishing high school when joining

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What increased jobs ( think of GI Bill )

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Offering money for houses. Someone had to build the houses and it created jobs.

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Time when there were a lot of babies; post war activities

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Baby boom

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When soldiers came back from war how did they “get to business” ?

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They made up for lost time and got married and had children

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How much did soldiers have for college ?

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500$ a year

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13
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How much was used for soldier education funding?

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8 million

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14
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How much was it to live on own? With wife/husband?

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50$ a month 75$ a month with family

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When was the peak of the baby boom?

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1957 - child born every 7 secs

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16
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How long did baby boom last?

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1940-1960

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17
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How much did the population grow from baby boom?

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27%

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18
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What was the only economic problem?

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Skyrocketed prices

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19
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Did gov control economy ?

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No

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20
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How much did prices in creases?

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18%

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21
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When did meat price double

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1946

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22
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WHY were prices so high?

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So much money for few little options

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23
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What hire people after the war?

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The demand for goods went up so the production needed to go up

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24
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What the ironic thing about United States population to consumer goods

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We only took up 6% of population of the world but provided 50% of consumer goods

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25
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What were new technological advances?

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Computers, atomic energy

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26
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The rate at which goods and services are produced

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Productivity

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27
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What increased productivity

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New technology

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28
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What did military spending increase

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New product ideas, foreign goods, and new ideas

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29
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Trumans job before president

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Vice President

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What was so problamatic with rum an at president now?

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He stepped into the Cold War and a trouble democracy, leaving people unsure of their security economically; weren’t sure of civil rights would be fair

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31
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What did Truman face (2 probz)

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Restless labor movement and combative Republican Party

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32
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Why did workers go on strike?

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They wanted more money and to take to keep up with inflation

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33
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What did the Taft Hartley act do?

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Only outlawed the closed shop- only workers in unions could work

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34
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What did Truman do to reform?

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Tried to reform civil rights relations

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35
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What executive order made military integrated?

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1948 executive order 9981

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36
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Why did the Southern Democrats leave and start their our party?

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They didn’t like th civil rights movement Truman was putting on

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37
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What was theSouthern democrats new leader for president?

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South Carolina governor Strom Thurman

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38
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Broke with Truman because of foreign issues, new progressive party candidate

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Henry Wallace

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39
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Who won 1948 elections?

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Truman

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40
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Republican candidate for election against Truman

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Thomas Dewey

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41
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What was the Fair Deal

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Trumans campaign promise; would strengthen existing New deal programs such as national health care

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42
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1952 Republican candidates

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Dwight Ike Eisenhower

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43
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Democratic candidate in 1952

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Aldai Stevenson from Illinois go nor

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44
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Why was Eisenhower nominated

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Was popular, balanced, middle of road guy

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45
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Why was spending increased during Eisenhower running?

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He made the interstate system and spent on education

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46
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What were the Americans worried about at the beginning of the 1950’s?

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Another depression; not having enough jobs

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47
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How many people moved to suburbs?

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40 million

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48
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What suffered from the migration

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Cities and rural areas

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49
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Why did people flock to suburbs?

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Shortage of urban housing

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50
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Founded suburbs

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William levitt

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51
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First town of suburbs

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Levittown

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52
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FHA

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Federal housing administration

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53
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What FHA help do?

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Help pay mortgages for long time like 30 years

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54
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What was popular in suburbs?

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Shopping center

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55
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How many jumps did the cars go from

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26 mill in 1945 to 60 mill 1960

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56
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New technology of cars

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Powered steering , brakes and transmission

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57
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What did the car design remind people of?

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Had chrome which looked like jet plane

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58
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What grew the suburbs

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Highways

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59
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Describe interstate Highway Act

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Authorized 41k miles connected major cities too

60
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Other name for highway

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Dwight D Eisenhower System of Interstate and Defensive Highways

61
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What did the highways and suburbs boost

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Vacation

62
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What met vacation demands

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Disneyland

63
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Sun belt

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Southern and western states

64
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What sparked the sunbelt

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Dodgers and giants moving to California

65
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What attracted people to sunbelt?

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Jobs, weather, AC

66
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Where did Mexicans settle

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Miami Florida

67
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As people moved out of cities what also left them?

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Political power, Money (tax),

68
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Services like health care, insurance, law, retail

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Service sector

69
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Blue collar jobs

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Manufacturer or industrial

70
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White collar

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Service sector jobs

71
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Computer first computer took up 18,000 square feet

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ENIAC

72
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ENIAC

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Electronic Numeric integrator and computer

73
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What job was declining as new ones were rising?

A

Farming

74
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How may family’s worked on farms in 1935

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1/4

75
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How many families worked on farms in 1960

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1/10

76
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What helped farmers and workers grow food faster?

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Mechanical cotton packers, chemical pesticides,

77
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Franchise

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Allows company to distribute its goods and services to retail individual owners

78
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Why did people like franchises

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Because they were spread out and had quality and sameness regardless of location

79
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Who started holiday in and why?

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Kemmons Wilson : he took a trip and realize there weren’t enough hotels and room for his family; went to hotel business

80
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What did critics say about franchises ?

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It was too bland and unoriginal

81
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Businesses that expand all over the world

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Multinational business

82
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Name some multinational businesses

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GM, General Electric, IBM, and Coca Cola

83
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AFL-CIO what were they and who did they influence

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American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organization; labor unions; Democratic Party

84
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What increased productivity

A

Higher educated work force

85
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1960 percent of college attendants

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40%

86
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Act that gave 1 billion dollars to find scientist and science teacher in response to Sputnik

A

National defense act

87
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Plan by western state to increase edu

A

California master plan

88
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Three aspects of California master plan

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Research universities, state college and community colleges

89
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Segregated schools by order of Supreme Court

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Brown vs board of education of tokepea

90
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What was ideal man ?

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Go to school get better job support family and make decisions

91
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What was the ideal woman

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Stay home and take care of children and make man happy

92
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Buying as much as you can

A

Consumerism

93
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What did Americans use for to aid their consumerism

A

Credit

94
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Vocab word: average family income

A

Median family income

95
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How was advertising affected by consumerism

A

Encouraged “buy now, pay later”

96
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Who introduced first credit card

A

The diner club

97
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What was the main purchased goods?

A

Home appliances ( washer dryer ref ridge

98
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What appeared as home appliances were needed?

A

Super markets

99
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Name for women at home

A

Bread winners

100
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How much of the work force was made of women during war

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25%

101
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Mother father and children at home

A

Nuclear family

102
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Movie about women staying home with family and children

A

The tender trap

103
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What exaggerated and promoted nuclear family’s ?

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tv

104
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How many women have jobs in 1960

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1/3

105
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Man who passed book about babies

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Dr Benjamin Spock

106
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What did Benjamin’s Spock book about

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Raising children with love and no discipline

107
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What was Spock’s book called

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Common sense book of baby and child care

108
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How was the time focus on the children

A

They spent money on them

109
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Popular toys for children

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Davy Crockett’s caps and Barbie dolls

110
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Book about how wives should act

A

Good Wife Guide 19 rules

111
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Main topics of good wife guide

A

Clean the hous
Quiet the children
Greet husband
Cook

112
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The rise of church attenders went from what to what

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50 million to 80 million

113
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Man who held church revivals to get people to come to church

A

Billy Graham

114
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Bishop who held television broadcasts to get people to go to church

A

Fulton sheen

115
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When did girls get marrie

A

Young 18 and 19

116
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Why was there a revival of religion

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To stop and respond to communists

117
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What percent of Americans affiliated themselves with religion by end of 50’s

A

95%

118
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When was under God added to pledge

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1954

119
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When did in God to we trust get added currency

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1955

120
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Developed vaccination of polio

A

Dr Jonas Salk

121
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What medical advance was new in 1950’s

A

Open heart surgery

122
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Where did rock and roll come from

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Jazz and African American R&B

123
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Why did people put God we trust on currency and the God in the pledge

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To reassure the central realign in USA

124
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What was another huge medical advancement like the polio vaccine?

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Antibiotics

125
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How did tvs threaten the movie industries

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People would stay home rather than go see a movie

126
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Popular shows kids watched

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Mickey Mouse club house, howdy doody show, and Lone Ranger

127
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Popular sitcoms

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I love Lucy, leave it to beaver, the adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, and father knows best

128
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What did family sitcoms consist of

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No divorce, real world problems like alcohol, depression, and no major African American characters

129
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DJ in clev land , named rock and roll

A

Allen freedmen

130
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How did teenagers and adolescents feel about society?

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Discontent ; did not like conformity ; not enough opportunity

131
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Promoted spot iatedity and rejected conformity

A

Beatniks

132
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Wrote on the road ; spiritual leader for beatniks

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Jack Kerauac

133
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Rejected the uniform middle ; literary movement class culture

A

Beat movement

134
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Described the house of the woman and her life

A

Feminine mystique

135
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Who wrote feminine mystique

A

Betty Friedman

136
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What was so bad when people left cities? What did lose

A

Political power, tax money, left them in poverty, jobs went to suburbs

137
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How were Puerto Ricans discriminated? Why?

A

Forced to leave houses, put in labor camps, little help of gov, all because of lack of English

138
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Organized Mexicans into unions

A

Ernest golaza

139
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Place of crime and bad school and housing; after people left cities

A

Inner city

140
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How did gov try to revive cities

A

With urban renewal project

141
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How did urban renewal back fire

A

People left the project to aid highways and such

142
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What did farmers face?

A

Industrial bigger farms and poverty

143
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How many worked in bracero program and what was its nickname

A

3 mil and legal slavery

144
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What was the termination policy

A

Terminating tribes and their land; sold natives land and government no longer support them

145
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Name Klamath Tribe advantage

A

5 members got welfare and 93% of payment

146
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Deaths of Klamath

A

28% died by age 25

52% died by 40

147
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What was the chance to retake native lands

A

AIM American Indian movement

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