• Shuffle
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Alphabetize
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Front First
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Both Sides
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Read
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
Reading...
Front

Card Range To Study

through

image

Play button

image

Play button

image

Progress

1/32

Click to flip

Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;

Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;

H to show hint;

A reads text to speech;

32 Cards in this Set

  • Front
  • Back

What gave returning soldiers low interest loans?

The G.I. bill

Dixiecrat that won election 1948 for president

Storm thurmond

Why did job decline in 1950s?

Strikes and factory closures

What is a conglomerate?

Large company that owns small companies

Where were most new homes built during the 1950s?

Suburbs

What is consumerism?

Buying lots of items

What started the beat movement

Expressions of noncomformaty

What was the main forum of entertainment in the 1950s

Movies

Who lead the civil rights movement in the 50s

Black veterans

The split in the Republican party in 1948 led to who becoming prez?

Prez. Truman

Why did Eisenhower pass the interstate highway acts in 56

More cars than people living in the suburbs then driving

What were the two forms of the major parts of the fair deal?

Increase min. Wage to help farmers disenegrate and gov.

What were two forms of rebellion in the 50s

Rock and roll and the beat movement

Why was the Dixiecrat party started?

To keep the south segregated

Who started the rock and roll movement?

Elvis

What was TV like in the 50s

Portrayed white conformist fam.

What is the bacero program?

Allowed Mexicans to come to America and work agricultural jobs

What is the termination policy

Native Americans must assimilate in society

Who were the other Americans in the 50s

Minorities

What was FCC do?

Monitors public broadcasting

What did Jonas Salk do?

Invented Polo virus

What is white flight?

White people leave inner city and made suburbs

Who was prez. During most of the 50s?

Prez. Eisenhower

What are the satellite nations

Nations under russia

What did Russia think about the Marshall plan?

Unrealistic

What did Russia do after NATO was started?

Warsaw pact

What was the result of the Korean War?

Nothing divided 38 parallel

What was the main problem between Russian and the US after ww2?

Soviet domination of eastern Europe

The Truman doctrine gave what 2 countries 400 mil. Dollars

Greece and turkey

The United nations replaced what?

League of nations

What is Brinkmanship

Art of practice of pursuing a dangerous policy to the limits of safety before stopping

Why was the Berlin Wall a symbol of the cold war

Symbol between. Capitalism and communism