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These factors explain the surge in automobile ownership in the 1950s.
What were cheap gas, cheap cars, and federal highway support facilitating suburban commuting?
The approach to use deficit spending to stimulate economic growth was modeled after this 1930s government program.
What is the New Deal?
This was a result of the "White Flight" of the 1950s.
What was the loss of economic resources from cities, the loss of urban services, and growing urban poverty?
Brown v Board of Education and the Montgomery Bus Boycott are mentioned as part of:
What were events that signaled the civil rights movement was entering a new era?
These are the reasons that JFK chose not to immediately invade Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
What was he hoped to avoid nuclear war and force the USSR to concede some power?
This event in Cuba led to public embarrassment for JFK's administration and closer Cuban-Soviet ties.
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion of 1961?
The Servicemen's Readjustment Act most directly contributed to this post war change.
What is increased veterans' access to education and home loans?
This national concern was addressed by LBJ in passing Medicare and Medicaid.
What is health insurance for the elderly and low income Americans?
The Warren Court's decisions in the 1960s are associated with the following outcomes:
What was expanding Civile rights, protecting the rights of the accused, and reapportionment?
This was a direct impact to education in the 1950s due to the baby boom after WWII.
What were construction of new schools and teacher shortages due to the increased number of students?
JFK coined the term "The New Frontier" in reference to his plans to do this.
What is advance scientific, social, and economic problems?
The Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 created the following programs:
What were Job Corps, VISTA, and Head Start?
Truman threatened to draft striking workers in 1946 for this reason, he used this kind of presidential power to do so.
What is the use of executive authority to maintain national stability?
This is what Dr. Jonas Stalk is best known for.
What is developing the polio vaccine and the public inoculation program?
These two movements are examples of subcultures that challenged mainstream suburban values.
What are the beat movement and rock n roll?
This 1965 law provided funding to K-12 schools for textbooks and library materials.
What were the Elementary and Secondary Education Act?
Truman's executive order to integrate the armed forces in 1948 is significant because it:
What was used executive authority to advance civil rights in the face of Congressional resistance?
This was the primary goal of LBJ's Great Society.
What was end poverty and racial injustice, and improve the quality of life through legislation?
This is how the Immigration Act of 1965 changed US immigration policy.
What was ending quotas based on nationality?
This criticism was commonly leveled against the Great Society programs by conservatives.
What was that they created an oversized federal bureaucracy, waste, and dependency on government assistance?
This third party group split the Democratic vote in the South upsetting the 1948 presidential election.
What was the Dixiecrat Party?
There was a recession with rising unemployment and reduced consumer spending when this president took office in 1961.
Who was John F. Kennedy?
These acts were part of Truman's Fair Deal that Congress passed during his administration.
What was an increase in minimum wage and expanded Social Security coverage?
This event made JFK's national goal to send a man to the moon.
What was Yuri Gagarin becoming the first man in space?
This was the cultural effect television had in the 1950s.
What is the standardization of popular culture?