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what happened to the population post-World War II
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Population soared
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What two places were admitted as states?
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Hawaii and Alaska
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Why did people move south and west?
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Creation of Air Conditioning
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In 1963 which state passed New York in population?
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California
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Because of heavier and more powerful cars, in 1970 gas consumption reached
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92 billion gallons
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What new bussiness opened for auto travelers?
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the motel industry
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In 1956, what helped increase mobility
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The Ike Super Interstate Highway
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What increased mobility in 1958
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the Seattle built Boeing 707 jetliner
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By 1961, how many Tv sets were receiving transmittions from how many stations?
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55 million tvs, 530 stations
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What was the prime medium for advertising
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Television
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in 1963, what sent transmittions to other countries?
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the telstar satilight
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what media did the tv cover?
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national conventions, inaugurations, Kennedy assassination, Government campians, etc
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who said tv was a "vast wasteland" of serials, variety shows, quiz programs, and reruns of old movies>
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FCC's Newton Minow
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Post war (50's) what class increased
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middle class
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In the 50's, what happened to the percentage of immigrants
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decreased
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In the 50's, why did the persentage of immigrates decline?
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social and cultural uniformity. the income of industrial workers rose and more fringe benefits became available
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what two labor unions combinded in 1955?
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AFL and CIO.
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why did the 2 labor unions combine?
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to preserve what rights they had rather than to gain new ones
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what workers joined the ranks of middle class and entered the suburbs
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blue-collar workers
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What happened to religion post war?
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there was a huge religous Boom
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What did surveys in post war times show about american people and religion
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nearly all americans believed in God, but many were igorant of religious history and doctrine
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What did the GI Bill do for people
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Introduced young adults to new ideas and made more people tolerant of the beliefs of others
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What appeared to be between religous liberals and religious conservatives
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an "education gap"
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Who played a major role in promoting the civil rights movement
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The churches
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what did feminists demand of the churches
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female ministers and priests
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what sent shockwaves through the religious community
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cohabitation, homosexuality, pornography and legalized abortion
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1981 what did the Supreme Court reject?
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Reject teaching Darwinism in schools and just teaching "creation theory"
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Who stressed interdenominal coorperation?
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Billy Graham
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By 1970's a new wave of tv did what?
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preached religios, political, social and moral conservatism
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Who were two of the tv preachers?
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Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson
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Who wrote "The Naked and the Dead"?
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Norman Mailer
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Who wrote "From Here to Eternity"?
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James Jones
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Who wrote "Cather in the Rye"?
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J.D. Salinger
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Who wrote "Catch 22", which denounced warfare?
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Joseph Heller
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who wrote "on the Road"?
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Jack Kerouac
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Who was the Beat author in which Beatnik's followed?
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Jack Kerouac
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What did Jack Kerouac reject?
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materialist values
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What was Jack Kerouac obessed with?
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violence, perversion and madness
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What happened to the interest in reading, particulary paperbacks, with the population of tv?
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Interest in reading continued
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How were Post World War II writers compaired to Post World War I writers
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Post World War II writers were worse
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Who was famous for "Pop Art"?
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Andy Warhall
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Who wrote "The Victum"?
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Sal Bellow
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What was abstract expressionism?
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Art which stressed the "unconscious"
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Who was a leading Post WWII artist?
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Jack Pallock
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What was wrong with abstract expressionism?
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Requires too much verbal explanation to communicate to the average observer
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What is the first of the two dilemmas did the nation seem to face in the 1960's?
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That progress could be self-defeating (DDT) and that foreign policies geared to prevent war lead to new wars.
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In the 60's what does the generation turn in to?
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The "me" generation
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What is the start of the 60's rebellion?
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Youngsters rejected perental advice
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What is the second dilemma faced by the nation in the 60's?
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That the modern industrial Society placed too much emphasis on social cooperation and undermined the individual
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Although the US was the most powerful nation in the 60's it was unable to...
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Mobilize its resources intelligetly to confront obvious challenges
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What amount did the GNP approach?
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$1 trillion
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What happened with inflation?
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Went up which put workers under constant pressure to demand wage hikes which caused the prices to go up
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What interests did workers put first?
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Their own before the whole
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Who began to strike after inflation?
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public workers
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What industries did technological improvements bring about?
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The plastic and electronic industries
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What did scientist manufacture electricity from in 1951?
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Nuclear fuels
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In 1954 what sub became the first ship powered by atomic energy
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the Nautilus
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What did computers help do?
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collect and store records, solve mathematical problems, and accelerate the work of bank tellers, librarians and tax collecters.
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What was the down side of the new technology
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Petroleum released pollutants. Increased use of paper and plastics threatened to bury the nation in trash and Fertilizers washed into streams and destroyed acquatic life
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What did the Great Society programs not do?
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They did not produce the promised racial peace and social harmony
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Malcom X was assassinated by who and why?
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He was assassinated by a group of black Muslims because Malcom X called for an outreach to whites
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What organization was started in 64?
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The Organization of Afro-American Union
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Who launched the campain to force Alabama authorities to allow blacks to register to vote?
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Maritn Luther King Jr
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In 1965, what spurred the passage of the Voting Rights Act?
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The Selma-Montgomery March
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Who said whites could not relate to the black experience and endorsed black seperatism?
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Stokely Carmichael of the Student Nonviolent Cooridinating Committee
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Where were the urban riots talking place?
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from Watts, Los Angeles to Newmark, New Jersey
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In 1967 what was special about the riot in Detroit
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It rivialed the "Motor City Riot" of 1943 and ended in43 deaths
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What happened in April 1968?
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Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated by James Earl Ray
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What happened because of Martin Luther King Jr's assassination
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Blacks unleashed their anger by burning and looting a hundred cities
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What commission found that their was "white Racism"
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Illinois commission chaired by Governor Otto Kerner
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What did missle-class whites do to escape urban tensions?
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Move to the suburbs or call on police to "maintain law and order"
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Along with blacks, who also struggled for equality?
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Millions of Mexican-Americans in the Southwest
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What are "Braceros"?
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Temporary farm workers. The importation of them was encouraged after WWII
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What were "Barrios"?
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Cities where illegals setteled and where low-paying but steady work could be found
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What did the "Chicanos" demand?
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Political, social, economic, and educational improvments
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Who organized migrant farm workers into unions?
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Cesar Chavez
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In 1965 what did Chavez launch a boycott on?
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Grapes
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What did Indian militants form and why?
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The American Indian Movement to demand self-determination, the return of lands and the revival of tribal culture
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In 1973 what town did Indian racials occupy?
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Wounded Knee
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What did the Indian Self-Determination Act of 75 do?
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Gave tribes greater control over education, welfare programs, and law enforcement.
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Who is the first black to serve on the Supreme Court?
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Thurgood Marshall
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Who is the first black senator since Reconstruction, elected in 1967 by Massachusetts?
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Edward Brooke
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What cities elected black mayors?
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NYC, Philadelphia, LA, Atlanta
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Who broke the black barrier in baseball?
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Jackie Robinson
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What two boxers attracted fans of both races?
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Joe Lewis and Muhammad Ali
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What was the resoulte of the "progressive education"
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It was producing poor work habits, fuzzy thinking, and plain ignorance
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What did the Former President of Havard James B. Conant flay the schools for?
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Neglecting foreign languages, ignoring the needs of the brightest and the slowest, and for not effectively teaching English grammer and composition
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What did James B. Conant urge?
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For teacher's college to emphasize subject matter over educational methodology in their curricula
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What spurred a renewed interest in math and science and the passage of the National Defense Education Act of 58?
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The sucess of the Soviet "Sputnik"
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What was the cause of the increase in college enrollment?
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Population growth and demand for specialized skills
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What was built to fill the gap between high school and college?
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Two-year junoir college
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By the 60's what where the students revolting against?
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established trends in politics, economics, and education.
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Who trained the students that revolted in the 60's?
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Their teachers who were New Deal Liberals
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What did the revolting students of the 60's resent?
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The materail comforts that the modern industrial society had provided for them because it made them felt guilty.
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What did regard Poverty, Atomic Weapons and racial prejuduice as?
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intolerable and evil
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