Chapter 27: The Postwar Boom

The GI Bill of Rights included all except...

Means of communication that reach large audiences. Ex: TV developed at lightning speed

Urban renewal was:

Eliminated US economic support & protection of Native Americans. NA's resettled in cities.

T/F: Companies purposely designed their products to become obsolete in order to sell more.

What type of music are musicians Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, and Charlie Parker known for?

Mexicans brought into US during WWII but didn't leave when employment ended, stayed illegally:

A company that offers similar products or services in many locations is called a:

Where were the houses that William Levitt mass produced for less than $7,000?(became Levittown)

Government agency that regulates and licenses TV, telephone, telegraph, radio, etc. industries.

By the 1950s, the middle class had doubled in size since WWII. _____ became equated to success.

A major corporation that includes multiple smaller companies in unrelated industries is called:

Dr. Jonas Salk developed the vaccine for:

The __ expressed the social and literary nonconformity of artists, poets, and writers.

When did the unprecedented population explosion known as the baby boom happen?

After FDR died in 1945, who became president?

What did Alan Freed, radio disc jockey, call his music that grew from three other music genres?

The Dixiecrats were created by Southern Democrats to protest:

Truman's Fair Deal was not...