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Chapter 17
Postwar Confidence and Anxiety
Term | Definition |
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1. demobilization | sending home members of the army |
2. GI Bill of Rights | eased the return of World War II veterans by providing educational and employment aid |
3. baby boom | increase in births between 1945 and 1964 |
4. productivity | the rate at which goods are produced or services preformed |
5. Taft-Hartley Act | a law that restricted the power of labor unions |
6. Fair Deal | President Truman's program to expand New Deal reforms |
7. Interstate Highway Act | 1956 law that authorized the spending of $32 billion to build 41,000 miles of highway |
8. Sunbelt | name given to the region of states in the South and Southwest |
9. service sector | businesses that provide services rather manufactured goods |
10. information industry | businesses that provide informational services |
11. franchise business | allows company to distribute its products or services through retail outlets owned by independent operators |
12. multinational corporation | companies that produce and sell their goods and services all over the world |
13. (AFL-CIO) | in 1955, the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and the Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO) labor unions united |
14. California Master Plan | called for three tiers of higher education: research universities, state colleges, and community colleges, all of which were accessible to all of the state's citizens |
15. consumerism | large-scale buying, much of it on credit |
16. median family income | measure of average family income |
17. nuclear family | ideal or typical household with a father, mother, and children |
18. rock-and-roll | music originated in the gospel and blues traditions of African Americans |
19. beatniks | small group of writers and artists in the 1950s and early 1960s who were critical of American society |
20. inner city | the older, central part of a city with crowded neighborhoods in which low-income, usually minority groups, live |
21. urban renewal | government programs for redevelopment of urban areas |
22. termination policy | ended all programs monitored by the Bureau of Indian Affairs; also ended federal responsibility for the health and welfare of Native Americans |