Ch 19 - The Postwar Boom #1

What group most benefited most from the economy and the culture of the 1950s?

The rapid increase of car ownership led to the...

Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, roots in rhythm and blues, simple melodies and lyrics

Where were the vast majority of new homes built in the 1950's?

The Fair Deal was an economic plan that included a nationwide health system and farm aid by

Southern Democrats who generally opposed civil rights and supported state's rights.

A business that owns a number of smaller companies

Who were southern democrats who opposed civil rights and wanted to protect southern lifestyle?

Who did the Dixiecrats nominate to run for President in 1948?

What was a disadvantage of standardization of American business?

Who helped win benefits for Hispanics after the Longoria accident?

Put these presidents in correct order

What was the criticism of TV in the 1950's?

What was the outcome of Truman's campaign against the "do nothing" Congress?

Truman's plan that included a nationwide system of healthcare and farm aid.

Who threatened to draft striking workers?

I Love Lucy, "Golden Age" , Father Knows Best, Glorification of the Western frontier

What became an American way of life b/c they had more $$ to spend and more products to buy?

What was the primary source of entertainment and information in the 1960's?

Developed the polio vaccine.

Who enjoyed the prosperity of the postwar period?

Wrote the defining 1950s beatnik novel, On The Road.

The Mexican workers who came to the U.S. during WWII to harvest crops?

What movement besides the Beat movement was considered a form of rebellion?

Who developed the polio vaccine?

Who was the 1st political to use the new medium of television skillfully?

Manufacturing jobs declined during the 1950s?

Focused on specialized audiences, increase in advertising revenues, focused on local community

Stereophonic sound, popular culture, 3-D images, wide angle images

What were the effects of the conversion from a wartime to a peacetime economy?

What law helped returning vets and the U.S. economy after WWII?

Why would manufacturers purposefully design items to wear out/ become outdated in a short time?

America's high birth rate from 1946 until the early 1960s is called ...

What is a large corporation that own a number of smaller companies?

Individuality, Jack Kerouac, non traditional forms of poetry, Beatniks

What offered low-interest loans to returning veterans?

The expression of nonconformity by artists and poets developed into the 

During the 1960s, mist Americans depended on __??__ for most of their news and entertainment.

What contributed to the economic recovery after the war?

Who offered standardized mass produced homes in small residential communities called suburbs?

The preoccupation with buying material goods.

Popularized rock music to a predominately white audience in the 1950s.