Post War America
The Administration that led the nation to make social, economics, & political adjustments following WWII.
The Truman & Eisenhower administration
A major corporation that includes a number or smaller companies in unrelated industries
Conglomerates
Means of communication that reach large audiences
Mass media
A DJ who was among the first to play music
Alan Freed
authorized miles of expressways
The Interstate Highway Act 1956
It encouraged veterans to get an education by paying part of their tuition.
G.I. Bill of Rights
At the peak of 1957, 1 American infant was born every 7 seconds
Baby Boom
The first regular broadcasts began in this year
1949
A name that has come to mean music that is both black and white- music that is American
Rock "n" Roll
Three of the problems that cars created
Accidents, traffic jams, polluted air, public transportation declined
Became president after FDR died in 1945
Harry S. Truman
Buying material goods came to be equated with success
Consumerism
The government agency that regulates and licenses TV, telephone, telegraph, radio, & other communication industries
Federal Communication Commission (FCC)
The first unofficial King of Rock
Elvis Presley
Spurred local and state govt to construct roads linking the major cities
"Automania"
An extension of FDR's New Deal, included proposals for a nationwide system of compulsory health insurance and a crop subsidy system.
Fair Deal
the industry capitalized on the runaway consumerism
The Advertising Age
A style of music characterized by the use of improvisation.
Jazz
The first contract to RCA was for this amount of money
$35,000
This persuaded Americans to buy cars in record numbers
Easy credit terms and extensive adveritsing
The winner of the 1948 Election
Harry Truman
This place used the first credit card in 1950
Diner's Club
Centered in San Francisco, LA, and NYC's Greenwich Village- it expressed the social and literary nonconformity of artists, poets and writers
Beat Movement
Many adults believed that Rock n Roll would lead to this
Teenage delinquency and immortality
the result of cars becoming popular
economic gap between middle and poor class widened