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12 Cards in this Set
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GI bill of rights
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gave WW2 veterans tuition for college, loans for houses and temporary unemployment benefits
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Baby Boom
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name for the rapid population growth which occurred after WW2 from 1945-1960
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Truman's Fair Deal
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aimed to extend the new deal goals. Higher minimum wage, national health insurance
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growth of suburbs
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mass production houses
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Levittowns
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name given to suburban developments after WW2
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white flight
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Middle class people that moved from the cities to suburbs
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Criticism of conformity of the 1950's
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social conformity made it easy to mask the differences among individuals and groups
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forms or rebellion
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as teenagers gained freedom and income, they began to rebel through music and other means
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similarity between the 1920's and 50's
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resist conformity and rebel against authority
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interstates
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highways build so that military could move easily in case of an attack - Eisenhower
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How did television depict life during the 50's
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made every family be like the cookie cutter family and if not, then excluded from everyone
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describe the economy in the U.S through the 50's
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marked economic growth
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