This law helped to ease veterans' return to civilian life by offering low-interest loans, tuition payments, and a year of unemployment benefits.
What is the GI Bill of Rights.
100
Term used to describe an increase in the birthrate from the late 1940s to early 1960s.
What is the Baby Boom.
100
This showed idealized families centered around the father as breadwinner and the mother as homemaker.
What is television.
100
Writer of the Feminine Mystique, which outlined many suburban women's discontent.
Who is Betty Friedan.
100
Term to describe millions of middle-class white Americans who left the city for the suburbs, taking with them precious economic resources.
What is White Flight.
200
President Harry Truman's plan for government. He wanted to extend FDR's New Deal by promoting employment and raising the minimum wage. This plan was known as
What is the Fair Deal.
200
Pressure to have the newest and most up-to-date appliances, appealing to people's desire for status and "belongingness".
What is keeping up with the Joneses.
200
This type of music became a symbol of youth culture.
What is Rock n' Roll.
200
This person developed a vaccine for polio.
Who is Dr. Jonas Salk.
200
The process of tearing down rundown neighborhoods and constructing low-income housing.
What is urban renewal.
300
Major economic issue that Truman addressed after WWII.
What is striking workers.
300
One of the first suburban communities created after WWII. These homes all looked exactly alike and the owner bragged he could build a house in 16 minutes.
What is Levittown.
300
Literary movement that expressed social and literary nonconformity.
What is the Beat Movement.
300
This author and pediatrician wrote Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care, which advised parents to nurture their children.
Who is Dr. Benjamin Spock.
300
Urban renewal was nicknamed this.
What is Urban Removal.
400
President who passed an executive order integrating the armed forces as well as an order to end discrimination in the hiring of government employees.
Who is President Truman.
400
The designing of products to become outdated in a short period of time.
What is Planned Obsolescence.
400
List one factor that encouraged the boom of the automobile industry in the 1950s.
What is easy credit, inexpensive fuel, and life in the suburbans.
400
Author of the book The Other America.
Who is Michael Harrington.
400
These two factors caused middle-class Americans to not notice poverty in the United States.
What is Suburbs and Highways.
500
Most middle-class men held these types of jobs (examples: sales, advertising, insurance and communications).
What is White Collar jobs.
500
Member of the Beat Movement and author of On the Road.
Who is Jack Kerouac.
500
Percentage of Americans living in poverty by the early 1960s.