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32 Cards in this Set
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What gave returning soldiers low interest loans? |
The G.I. bill |
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Dixiecrat that won election 1948 for president |
Storm thurmond |
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Why did job decline in 1950s? |
Strikes and factory closures |
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What is a conglomerate? |
Large company that owns small companies |
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Where were most new homes built during the 1950s? |
Suburbs |
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What is consumerism? |
Buying lots of items |
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What started the beat movement |
Expressions of noncomformaty |
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What was the main forum of entertainment in the 1950s |
Movies |
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Who lead the civil rights movement in the 50s |
Black veterans |
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The split in the Republican party in 1948 led to who becoming prez? |
Prez. Truman |
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Why did Eisenhower pass the interstate highway acts in 56 |
More cars than people living in the suburbs then driving |
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What were the two forms of the major parts of the fair deal? |
Increase min. Wage to help farmers disenegrate and gov. |
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What were two forms of rebellion in the 50s |
Rock and roll and the beat movement |
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Why was the Dixiecrat party started? |
To keep the south segregated |
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Who started the rock and roll movement? |
Elvis |
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What was TV like in the 50s |
Portrayed white conformist fam. |
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What is the bacero program? |
Allowed Mexicans to come to America and work agricultural jobs |
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What is the termination policy |
Native Americans must assimilate in society |
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Who were the other Americans in the 50s |
Minorities |
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What was FCC do? |
Monitors public broadcasting |
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What did Jonas Salk do? |
Invented Polo virus |
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What is white flight? |
White people leave inner city and made suburbs |
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Who was prez. During most of the 50s? |
Prez. Eisenhower |
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What are the satellite nations |
Nations under russia |
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What did Russia think about the Marshall plan? |
Unrealistic |
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What did Russia do after NATO was started? |
Warsaw pact |
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What was the result of the Korean War? |
Nothing divided 38 parallel |
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What was the main problem between Russian and the US after ww2? |
Soviet domination of eastern Europe |
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The Truman doctrine gave what 2 countries 400 mil. Dollars |
Greece and turkey |
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The United nations replaced what? |
League of nations |
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What is Brinkmanship |
Art of practice of pursuing a dangerous policy to the limits of safety before stopping |
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Why was the Berlin Wall a symbol of the cold war |
Symbol between. Capitalism and communism |