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This provided veterans with part of their tuition paid, federally guaranteed loans, as well as a year’s worth of unemployment benefits while job hunting. Young families used these benefits to buy homes, farms, or help establish businesses.
What is the GI Bill of Rights?
As soldiers returned from World War II and settled into family life, they contributed to an unprecedented population explosion known as
They were followers of the beat movement, which expressed the nonconformity of artists, and lived these nonconformist lifestyles.
Who were beatniks?
the nation’s leaders create to aid in improving conditions in the inner city
What is HUD?
JFK relied on this person most during his presidency, that he promoted to Attorney General
Who is Robert Kennedy?
The economist Galbraith called America THIS in the 1950s
What is the "affluent society"?
This was because of the increase in consumerism and planned obsolescence, Americans expected new and better products more frequently, and they began to discard items that were sometimes barely used
What was a throwaway society?
This spurred local and state governments to construct roads linking the major cities while connecting schools, shopping centers, and workplaces to residential suburbs
What is Automania?
ensuring Native Americans had the same civil rights white Americans had and allowing Native Americans on
reservations to be able to retain their own customs.
What are the 2 main goals of the National Congress of American Indian?
JFK stated in his inaugural address that America should confront the “what” of communism.
What is Iron Tyranny?
dealing with the rising threat of communism and restoring the American economy after the war.
What were 2 challenges faced by Truman?
The music Freed called Rock n Roll in the 1950s was mostly produced by who
Who were African Americans?
President Eisenhower’s nickname
What is ike?
This policy against Native Americans was a new approach where the federal government abandoned responsibility for Native American tribes. This ended federal economic help, spread tribal lands among individual Native Americans, and ceased the reservation system.
What is the termination policy?
Who said that “Revolutionaries are not born, they are made by poverty, inequality, and dictatorship
Who is Fidel Castro?
Truman created this that would push for the equality of all human beings
What is the President's Civil Rights Commission?
This was the entertainment and information marvel of the postwar years
What was the TV?
this impacted poor whites and nonwhites negatively because city governments were no longer able to maintain or improve public transportation, schools, and police and fire departments, because they couldn’t afford it.
What is white flight?
this country aligned with the Soviet Union around 1960
What is Cuba?
The Freedom 7 space flight took how long to complete
What is 15 minutes?
this was created by changes in men’s and
women’s roles after the war. During the war, women supported their families and made
important household decisions, in contrast to the traditional dynamic. After, many were
understandably hesitant to give up their new independence when their husbands returned.
What led to a rise in divorce rates after WW2?
The year Native Americans became citizens of America
What is 1924?
Truman’s campaign slogan in the 1948 election
What was give em hell?
Nixon was an expert on this regarding politics
What is foreign policy?
In 1963, JFK lost popularity in the polls because of
What is his advocacy for civil rights?