LT#1: Suburbanization
This is the largest generation of Americans ever born, after WWII.
What is the Baby Boom?
This new type of music was introduced and became popular with teenagers.
What is Rock n Roll?
This popular new technology was owned by over 90% of Americans by the end of the 1950s.
What is Television?
This American foreign policy described stopping the spread of communism around the world.
What is containment?
This Senator from Wisconsin claimed he had a list of 205 communists working in the government.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
Who is McCarthy?
The Demographic shift of white Americans moving out of central cities and into segregated suburbs.
What is White Flight?
This person appeared on television in 1957 and set a record for viewership during his musical performance.
Who is Elvis Presley?
By the end of the 1950, most men worked these type of jobs.
What is white-collar?
What are white-collar jobs?
This European country was divided by the Allied Powers after WWII.
What is Germany?
Who is Germany?
This event provided 2 million tons of food, medicine, coal to people in a blockaded city.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
This Bill gave loans to WWII veterans to buy homes, start businesses, and go to college.
What is the G-I Bill?
This group of poets rebelled against conformity and the "rules" of the 1950s.
What is the Beat Movement?
Who are the Beatniks?
This ethnic group was the poorest of all Americans during the 1940s/50s.
Who are Native Americans?
This "theory" describes Communism spreading from one country to the next.
What is the Domino Theory?
This plan provided direct aid and relief to 16 western European countries.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This new suburban development created 17,000 identical homes built assembly-line style.
What are Levittowns?
What is Levittown?
This person was the host of the most popular television talk-show of the 1950s.
Who is Ed Sullivan?
All-White communities who discriminated using laws, threats, and violence.
What are Sundown-Towns?
Who is George Kennan?
This speech given by the President in 1947 described America's foreign policy during the Cold War.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This is the largest public works project in American history.
What is the Federal Highway Act?
This term was used to describe the growing divisions between teenagers and adults.
What is generation gap?
What is a generation gap?
This term describes the minimum money needed to support a family in the U.S.
What is Poverty Line?
What is the Poverty Line?
This conference in July 1945 ended with increased tensions between the U.S. and USSR.
What is the Potsdam conference?
What is the Potsdam meeting?
This committee investigated Hollywood and the film industry in the 1940s/50s.
Who is HUAC?
What is the House Un-American Activities Committee?