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VOCABULARY
114. Suburb – the area just outside a large city
115. Dixiecrat – Political party that developed
in the 1950s when segregationists broke
away from the national Democrats
116. Baby Boom – Period between 1946 and
1964 when there was a large increase in
the number of babies born
117. Planned Obsolescence – a marketing
strategy that started in the 1950s in
which companies made products to become
outdated making you to want the new and
improved model
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118. Mass Media – communication with a
large number of people through one source
119. Beat Movement – (Beatniks) social and
artistic movement of the nonconformists of
the 1950s
120. Termination Policy – plan by the US
government to end all federal economic
support for the Native Americans by
discontinuing the reservation system and
redistributing all tribal lands
CHAPTER 19
THE POST WAR
BOOM
THE NIFTY FIFTIES
TAFT-HARTLEY ACT
Outlawed closed shops.
The practice of businesses hiring only
union members
Businesses had to be “open shops”
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• Helped WW II veterans
College
Home
Business
ASSEMBLY LINE HOMES
• Levittown
POPULATION SHIFT
CITY
TO
SUBURB
TRUMAN
• LABOR STRIKES
• Were a problem
• Threatened to
draft them
• INTEGRATION
• Supported civil
rights
• Pushed congress to
pass laws – they
would not
• Executive order
– Integrate the
armed forces
DIXIECRATS
• 1948 Election
• Civil Rights is key issue
for Democrats
• Southern Democrats
• Strom Thurmond
• 1956-2003
TRUMAN’S FAIR DEAL
• Introduced as an extension of the New Deal
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Crop Subsidy
Nation wide health insurance
Raise minimum wage
Extended social security
Flood control and irrigation projects
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117.
Suburb
Dixiecrat
Baby Boom
Planned Obsolescence
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118. Mass Media
119. Beat Movement
120. Termination Policy
1952
ELECTION
• Eisenhower wins
• Nixon is vice pres.
Brown v. Board
of Education
Rosa Parks
Eisenhower
and Civil
Rights
• Did not believe a
federal law was
necessary
• The ENFORCER
Alaska and Hawaii become
states under Eisenhower
SWITCH
from
BLUE COLLAR
to
WHITE COLLAR
JOBS
CONGLOMERATE
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AT&T
General Electric
AOL/Time Warner
Walt Disney
Sony
FRANCHISE
• McDonald’s
• A company that offers
similar products and
service at many locations
• McDonald’s
SOCIAL CONFORMITY
COMMUTING
• MADE POSSIBLE BY
– New highways
– Gasoline
– automobiles
SUBURBAN LIFE
• WONDERFUL
• GOOD SCHOOLS
• DREAM HOME
• SAFE
• SINGLE FAMILY
HOME
• WHITE PICKET
FENCE
THE
BABY
BOOM
Jonas Salk
Polio
vaccine
WOMEN OF THE 1950S
AUTOMANIA
INTERSTATE HIGHWAY
ACT
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Easier trucking
Towns grew
Vacations
Shopping centers grew
Industries moved away
from cities
Eminent Domain
PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE
CREDIT ADVERTISEMENTS
MASS MEDIA
FCC
ENTERTAINMENT
MOVIES AND TV
TV Guide TV dinners
Stereotypes and Fads
Smellovision
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ALAN FREED AND
ROCK & ROLL
AFRICAN AMERICANS
AND POP CULTURE
The Story About Ruby Valentine
White Flight
• Many White
Americans left
cities and went to
suburbs
• Less people in the
cities – less money
for services so the
cities began to
decline
BRACERO PROGRAM
LONGORIA INCIDENT
TERMINATION POLICY
• Change of policy of dealing with Native
Americans
• Eisenhower put policy in place
• Withdrew federal aid from Native
Americans
• It lasted 10 years and was a failure
1950s trends – housing, population
shifts . . . . .
Baby Boom
Beat Movement
Benjamin Spock
Civil War in China
Commuting
Conglomerate
Containment
Covert Operations in Middle East
and Latin America
Dixiecrats
East and West Germany
Eisenhower and Civil Rights
Eisenhower Doctrine
Franchise
GI Bill of Rights
HUAC
Interstate Highway Act
Iron Curtain
John Foster Dulles
Jonas Salk
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Khrushchev
Korean War
Loyalty Review Board
Marshall Plan
Mass Media
McCarthyism
NATO
Open Skies
Potsdam Conference
Sputnik
Stalin
Truman Doctrine
Truman’s presidency
U-2 Flights
United Nations
Warsaw Pact
Yalta Conference
NATO/Warsaw Map