The GI Bill & Baby Boom
This 1944 act provided veterans with education, job training, and low-interest mortgages.
What is the GI Bill (Servicemen's Readjustment Act)?
This South Jersey/Pennsylvania community served as the primary model for rapid-build suburban development.
What is Levittown?
This device moved from a "novelty to a necessity," shaping culture through nightly news and sitcoms.
What is the Television?
This President proposed the "Fair Deal" to build upon the legacy of the New Deal.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
This "loop" describes how more marriages led to more births, which led to more jobs and spending.
What is a Reinforcing Loop?
This is the specific time period (years) that defines the "Baby Boom" surge in births.
What is 1946–1964?
This "copy-and-paste" method of construction slashed costs and sped up the building of suburban homes.
What is standardization?
This government program promoted "Atoms for Peace" would use a specific type of power for civilian energy.
What is Nuclear?
This 1947 law, passed over a presidential veto, restricted union practices like "closed shops."
What is the Taft-Hartley Act?
As men returned from war, these two groups were often pushed out of factory jobs and back into schools or domestic roles.
Who are women and teenagers?
Total federal investment spent on empowering the post-war generation through the GI Bill.
What is $13 Billion?
As suburb living would grow more popular what were two of the item that every house hold had?
What is a TV and Car?
This medical breakthrough in the mid-1950s transformed public health by protecting children from paralysis.
What is the Polio vaccine?
The Fair Deal targeted "postwar prosperity gaps," whereas the New Deal was a response to this 1930s event.
What is the Great Depression?
This South Jersey town is cited as a major site for new "malls and shopping centers" that followed the rooftops.
What is Cherry Hill?
As men returned from WWII, women were often pushed toward these types of roles.
What are domestic roles?
This South Jersey town is cited as a major hub where malls and shopping centers followed the new "rooftops."
What is Cherry Hill?
The specific machine that would inspire business data processing.
What is the ENIAC?
This specific piece of Fair Deal legislation focused on slum clearance and public housing.
What is the Housing Act of 1949?
In the 1950s, this became the "central" hub for teenagers, featuring clubs, sports, and proms.
What is the High School?
What are at least two factors that played a huge role in creating our reinforced loop?
What is more marriages, more births, new jobs, rising wages, mass consumption?
These three specific South Jersey counties saw the most massive growth as families moved out of cities.
What are Burlington, Camden, and Gloucester?
The innovations would accelerate advances in multiple areas of life including... (Two major aspects)
Home Life and Industries (Franchises and Hospitals)
These two South Jersey manufacturing hubs had to adjust their bargaining strategies after the Taft-Hartley Act.
What are Camden and Paulsboro?
This specific road in South Jersey became famous for its many car dealerships.
What is Route 130?