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The Truman Years
Postwar Society
Postwar Culture
The Minority Experience
Potpourri
100
Guaranteed a year's worth of unemployment benefits while job hunting.
What is The GI Bill of Rights?
100
A major corporation that includes a number of smaller companies in unrelated industries.
What are comglomerates?
100
Means of communications that reach large audiences.
What is Mass Media.
100
Mexican workers allowed into the United States for a limited time.
What is Braceros?
100
First to play Rock 'n' Roll on the radio.
Who is Alan Freed?
200
Small residential communities surrounding cities
What are suburbs?
200
A company that offers similar products/services in many locations.
What is a Franchise?
200
Government agency that regulates and licenses television, telephone, and radio.
What is the FCC?
200
Eliminated federal economic support for Native Americans.
What is Termination Policy.
200
Marketing strategy used to encourage consumers to purchase more goods.
What is Planned Obsolescence?
300
Protested Truman's emphasis on civil rights and formed the states' Rights Democratic Party
Who are Dixiecrats?
300
Unprecedented increase in population during the late 1940's.
What is the Baby Boom?
300
What does the FCC stand for?
Federal Communications Commission
300
Provided a "decent home and a suitable living environment for every American family.
What is the National Housing Act of 1949?
300
Where did Rock 'n' Roll originate?
Cleveland, Ohio
400
Proposal for a nationwide system of compulsory health insurance and a crop-subsidy system to produce a steady income for farmers.
What is the Fair Deal?
400
Developed the polio vaccine.
Who is Dr. Jonas Salk?
400
His dancing was usually censored on television.
Who is Elvis Presley?
400
Mexican World War II hero who was refused funeral services in his hometown.
Who is Felix Longoria.
400
Southern and western states that saw a population boom during the postwar years.
the Sunbelt
500
How did Truman become president?
On the death of FDR
500
Buying material goods.
What is Consumerism?
500
Expressed the social and literary noncomformity of artists, poets, and writers.
What is the Beat Movement?
500
Declared that separate educational facilities were inherently unequal.
Brown v. Board of Education
500
Dwight D. Eisenhower's nickname.
What is "Ike"?