usa After ww2 Flashcards

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Why did the American economy go boom in the 1940s?

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after ww2 factories started making more consumer goods and then there was a baby boom needing to make baby products

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Why did the American economy go boom in the 1950s?

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Baby boom ment more children meaning needing more homes built in suburbs and cars

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How did president Kennedy try to change American society?

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He cut taxes
Raised minimum wage
Gave money to businesses creating many jobs
Planned to bring in medical care

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How did president Johnson try to change American society?

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Set up medical care to give health care to the poor
Allowed African Americans to vote
Raiser minimum wage again
Gave money to schools

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How did McCarthyism affect America?

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Claimed communists had top jobs in America
Led to witch hunts to find and remove them
Many innocent people accused and lost lives

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How did popular culture develop after ww2?

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Cinemas became less popular as they had tvs
Cinemas had 3D and drive in
Rock and roll was the new popular music

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How did people campaign for civil rights for African Americans ?

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Brown v board of education-schools got desegregated
Little Rock nine- 9 black kids faced horrible bullying going to a Newley desegregated school
Freedom riders- rode on segregated public transport

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How did MLK campaign for civil rights?

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Led the Montgomery bus boycott after Rosa parks refused to give up her seat on a bus
Organised a protest march in Birmingham

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How was violence used to campaign for civil rights?

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Malcom X belived white people where evil and needed to stop racism
The watts race riot led to 34 deaths
The black panthers killed police men

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How did life change for women in ww2?

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Betty Friedan wrote the feminine mystique
Set up the NOW
Women’s libs-protester about throwing women’s curlers and bras away
Made abortion legal

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