Post War America
Dream of the Fifties
Popular Culture
Other America
Mystery
100
Suburbs
production of houses in small residential communities surrounding cities
100
consumerism
Buying material goods came to be equated with success
100
1st regular broadcasts began in 1949 of this
TV
100
Passed to provide a decent home and a suitable living environment for every American Family
National Housing Act of 1949
100
Postwar Americans did which : saved their money or spent it like crazy?
Spent
200
Brown v Board
public schools must be racially integrated
200
Baby Boom
Late 40s and through early 60s, Average 1 American infant born every 7 seconds during this time
200
means of communication that reach large audiences
Mass Media
200
Mexican hired hands allowed in to harvest crops
Braceros
200
Radios survived by?
Switching to news, weather and local issues
300
In what year did Truman meet with African-American leaders ?
1946
300
Authorized miles of expressways
Interstate Highway Act 1956
300
Expressed the social and literary noncomformity of artists poets and writers.
Beat Movement
300
Despite prosperity of 1950 millions of Americans __________
lived in poverty
300
What sales rose in the 1950s due to easy credit and extensive advertising as being necessary for suburban living?
Cars
400
Over 1 million workers were laid off after this
10 days of Japan's surrender
400
company that offers similar products of services in many locations
Franchise
400
Beatniks
tended to shun regular work and sought a higher consciousness through Zen Buddhism, music and sometimes drugs
400
White Flight
Middle-class white Americans left for the suburbs, taking eco resources and isolating themselves from other races and classes
400
Planned obsolescence
designing products to wear out quickly so people will feel a need to replace their possessions often
500
Guaranteed 1 year of unemployment benefits and low interest loans to soldiers
GI Bill
500
Major corporations that include smaller companies in unrelated industries
Conglomerates
500
Daily Double: DJ among the first to play Rock n Roll music in 1951
Alan Freed
500
Urban Renewal
Tearing down and rebuilding of buildings in rundown inner-city neighborhoods
500
Refused to give up her seat on a bus
Rosa Parks
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