Section 1
Guaramteed a year's worth of unemployment benefits while job hunting.
What is The GI Bill of Rights?
A major corporation that includes a number of smaller companies in unrelated industries.
What are comglomerates?
Means of communications that reach large audiences.
What is Mass Media.
Means "hired hands". They were workers who came up from Mexico to work in agriculture.
What is Branceros?
She was the first American woman to be executed for espionage.
Who is Ethel Rosenberg?
Small residential communties surrounding cities
What are suburbs?
A company that offers similar products/services in many locations.
What is a Franchise?
He was the king of Rock n Roll.
Who is Elvis Presley?
This policy eliminated federal economic support for Native Americans.
What is Termination Policy.
Marketing strategy used to encourage consumers to purchase more goods, because goods would break down or become obsolete.
What is Planned Obsolescence?
Eisenhower's style of governing, "conservative when it comes to money and liberal when it comes to human beings.
What is dynamic conservatism?
Unprecedented increase in population during the late 1940's.
What is the Baby Boom?
This is the book written by Jack Kerouak about traveling across America looking for genuine experiences.
On the Road
Provided a "decent home and a suitable living environment for every American family.
What is the National Housing Act of 1949?
This was the name given to the group of "unfriendly" witnesses who refused to testify against others accused of being communist by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC).
What is the Hollywood Ten?
This was the name given to one of the first suburbs, named after the man who created it, and who used assembly-line methods to build houses.
What is a Levittown?
Developed the polio vaccine.
Who is Dr. Jonas Salk?
First to record "Hound Dog".
Who is Big Mama?
Mexican World War II hero who was refused burial by a funeral home in Texas because of his racial heritage.
Who is Felix Longoria?
This man was accused of spying for the Soviet Union, however due to too many years passing, he was convicted for perjury instead.
Who is Alger Hiss?
This was the name of the dog that Nixon received as a gift from a political supporter. It also was the name of the speech he gave.
What is Checkers?
Obsession with buying material goods.
What is Consumerism?
Expressed the social and literary noncomformity of artists, poets, and writers.
What is the Beat Movement/Beatniks?
When was the National Congress of American Indians established?
1944
Dwight D. Eisenhower's nickname.
What is "Ike"?