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19 Cards in this Set
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GI BIll of rights |
a name given to the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act, a 1944 law that provided financial and educational benefits for World War II veterans. |
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suburb |
a residential town or community near a city. |
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harry S Truman |
When Harry S. Truman suddenly became president after Franklin D. Roosevelt’s death in 1945, he asked Roosevelt’s widow, Eleanor, whether there was a |
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dixiecrat |
one of the Southern delegates who, to protest President Truman’s civil rights policy, walked out of the 1948 Democratic National Convention and formed the States’ Rights Democratic Party. |
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fair deal |
President Harry S. Truman’s economic program—an extension of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal—which included measures to increase the minimum wage, to extend social security coverage, and to provide housing for low-income families. |
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congolmerate |
a major corporation that owns a number of smaller companies in unrelated businesses. |
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franchise |
a business that has bought the right to use a parent company’s name and methods, thus becoming one of a number of similar businesses in various locations. |
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baby boom |
the sharp increase in the U.S. birthrate following World War II. |
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dr jonas salk |
developed a vac-cine for the crippling disease poliomyelitis polio. |
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consumerism |
a preoccupation with the purchasing of material goods. |
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planned obsolesenence |
the designing of products to wear out or to become outdated quickly, so that people will feel a need to replace their possessions frequently. |
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mass media |
the means of communication—such as television, newspapers, and radio—that reach large audiences. |
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fcc |
an agency that regulates U.S. communications industries, including radio and television broadcasting. |
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beat movement |
a social and artistic movement of the 1950s, stressing unrestrained literary self-expression and nonconformity with the mainstream culture. |
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rock n ' roll |
a form of American popular music that evolved in the 1950s out of rhythm and blues, country, jazz, gospel, and pop; the American musical form characterized by heavy rhythms and simple melodies which has spread worldwide having significant impacts on social dancing, clothing fashions, and expressions of protest. |
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jazz |
a style of music characterized by the use of improvisation. |
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urban renewal |
the tearing down and replacing of buildings in rundown inner-city neighborhoods. |
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bracero |
a Mexican laborer allowed to enter the United States to work for a limited period of time during World War II. |
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termination policy |
the U.S. government’s plan, announced in 1953, to give up responsibility for Native American tribes by eliminating federal economic support, discontinuing the reservation system, and redistributing tribal lands. |
