1950s Growth
This social class grew the most during the 1950s in America.
What is the middle class?
Families built these in case of a nuclear attack
What are bomb shelters?
Lots of these were being built by the government in 1956 in order to make travel between states, towns, and cities easier
What are highways?
Eisenhower followed this type of domestic policy
What is moderate?
Elvis Presley was the “King” of this new music genre
What is Rock'n'Roll?
What is Polio?
During the "White Flight" this is where the whites went
What are the suburbs?
The economic boom of the 50s raised this, the measure of people's overall wealth
What is standard of living?
Truman did not run for reelection in 1952 so the Democrats nominated....
Who is Adlai E. Stevenson?
This group attended sock hops
Who are teens?
In 1958 Eisenhower created this agency to explore the "next frontier"
What is NASA?
People born from 1946 to 1964 are called this.
What are Baby Boomers?
This type of transport carried more passengers for longer distances and advanced greatly in the 1950s
What is air/jet travel?
The competition between the US and Soviets to launch vessels outside of our atmosphere
What is the Space Race?
Who married Marilyn Monroe in 1954?
Who is Joe DiMaggio?
These are two things that the G.I. Bill allowed veterans to do.
What are receive low rate mortgages, education grants to pay for college, and/or medical care?
You might take your family to this famous California park that opened in 1955
What is Disneyland?
This is a means of producing goods using mechanical and electronic devices
What is automation?
This person took over after Joseph Stalin died
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
Urban poor struggled with racial discrimination in these 3 areas
What are employment, housing, and education?
Society began to transition to this, all about buying new products.
What is a consumer society or materialism?
Families in this region were poor often because of the decline of coal mining
What is Appalachia?
This person created mass-produced housing
Who is William Levitt?
Eisenhower's most important foreign policy adviser was this secretary of state
Who is John F. Dulles?
This is known as differences of opinions between family members or people born in a different time
What is a generational gap?