Vocab
Lets a user charge goods and services and pay for them later.
Credit Card
What is the BEST way to describe the general situation in postwar America?
Low unemployment
How did President Harry Truman further the cause of civil rights?
By issuing an executive order integrating the armed forces
What Best explains why the environmental movement came into being?
The release of chemicals into the environment was causing significant harm
A law that gave veterans funds for education, home loans, and other benefits.
G.I. Bill of Rights
What was Levittown?
A large suburb of affordable homes
Sit-ins were intended to end the segregation of
Lunch counters
What was President Jimmy Carter's greatest achievement?
Negotiating the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel
A strategy that was used to protest against segregated lunch counters.
Sit-in
What is the best title for this list?
Transistor radios
televisions
direct-dial telephone service
New Peacetime Technologies
Who was the first African American Supreme Court justice?
Thurgood Marshall
What was one effect of the Watergate scandal?
President Richard Nixon was impeached
To charge an elected official with a crime.
Impeach
What new form of music swept the nation in the 1950's?
Rock-and-Roll
The Great Society was born during the presidency of?
Lyndon Johnson
What are three things that showed that the American economy was booming after WWII?
Many new jobs, many new purchases, more homes, more cars, more televisions.
Unfair treatment of people based on race or gender.
Discrimination
What was one effect of television?
Entertainers became major national stars
What did Title IX (9) do?
It opened school athletics to girls and women
Who were the Little Rock Nine?
They were 9 African American students who integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Due to violence and threats, The U.S. Army sent troops to protect them.