US HISTORY II Ch. 27 review – Flashcards
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Dr. Jonas Salk's effective vaccine
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Polio
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Nationwide highway network
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interstate
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Regulator of broadcast communications (abbr)
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fcc
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Opposite of segregation
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integration
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Unprecedented population explosion (two words)
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baby boom
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Large corporation together with smaller companies
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conglomerate
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Bill designed to help veterans "readjust" (two words)
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gibill
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Entertainment and information mass media marvel
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television
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An abundance of this led millions to gas up
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petroleum
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Electronic rhythm and traditional blues music (three words)
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Rock 'n' Roll
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Plan for better city, low-income housing (two words)
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urban renewal
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Movement that expressed creative nonconformity
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Beat
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"The Buck Stops Here" president (two words)
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Truman
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McDonald's illustrates this form of business expansion
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franchise
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Campaign slogan for candidate Eisenhower (three words)
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"I Like Ike"
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Diner's Club issued first one in 1950
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Credit Card
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business system such as McDonald's
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franchise
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population explosion in 1964 to 1964
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baby boom
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end of support to Native American tribes
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termination policy
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director of suspense films
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Alfred Hitchcock
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integrated baseball
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Jackie Robinson
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ordered integration of armed forces
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Truman
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California theme park opened in 1955
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Disneyland
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beat author of On the Road
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Jack Kerouac
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1950s nonconformist movement
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beat
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first African american star of TV series
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Nat "King" Cole
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Dwight D. Eisenhower's nickname
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Ike
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President Truman's economic program
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Fair Deal
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Mexican field workers
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braceros
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Prosperous economy
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boom
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king of rock 'n' roll
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Elvis Presley
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developed vaccine against polio
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Salk
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nationwide network of roads
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interstate highway system
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lost Presidency to Truman in 1948 upset
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Dewey
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southern democrats against civil rights
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dixiecrats
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buying material goods
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consumerism
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residential community outside city
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suburbs
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source of entertainment and information
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TV
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Serviceman's Readjustment Act
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GI Bill of rights
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many women felt limited by this role
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homemaker
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minimum income needed for survival
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poverty line
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new 1950s music from rhythm and blues
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rock n roll
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improvement of inner city housing
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urban renewal
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uniform, standardized long island town
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levittown
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regulators of communications industries
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FCC
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a Life magazine survey showed that, during the 1950s, teens spent $20 million on ______________ alone
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lipstick
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Governor of S. Carolina who was the poster child for the Dixiecrats
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Strom Thurmond
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the raw material from which gasoline is made
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petroleum
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An African American novelist, essayist, and playwright who portrayed the struggles of African American against racial injustice and discrimination.
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James Baldwin
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the designing of products to wear out or to become outdated quickly, so that people will free a need to replace their possessions frequently
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planned obsolescene
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the means of communication-such as tv, newspapers, and radio-that reach large audiences
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media mass
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an agency that regulated US communications industries, including radio and TV broadcasting
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Federal communications commissions
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a social and artistic movement of the 1950s stressing unrestrained literacy self-expression and nonconformity with the mainstream culture
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beat movement
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a style of music characterized by the use of improvision
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jazz
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California theme park opened in 1955
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Disneyland
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Plan for better city, low-income housing (two words)
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urban renewal
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Movement that expressed creative nonconformity
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Beat
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"The Buck Stops Here" president (two words)
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Truman
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Plan for better city, low-income housing (two words)
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urban renewal
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Movement that expressed creative nonconformity
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Beat
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Plan for better city, low-income housing (two words)
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urban renewal
