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Post War Boom
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Discretionary income | The money to buy what is wanted in addition to what is needed |
| Baby boom | After the war, families had tons of babies, creating this. Led to a 20 % population growth during the 50s and led to increasing consumer demand and more demand for education |
| Levittown | symbolized most significant social trends of postwar era-flight to suburbs |
| Dixiecrats | Southern Democrats who broke from the party in 1948 over the issue of civil rights and ran a presidential ticket as the States' Rights Democrats were referred to as dixiecrats |
| Beat movement | social and literary nonconformity of artists, poets, and writers |
| Rock n Roll | Disc Jockey Allan Freed coined the term. He was one of the first to play music |
| Planned obsolescence | manufacturers purposely designed products to become obsolete |
| Checker’s Speech | Televised speech VP candidate Richard Nixon,he responded to scandalous reports misuse of funds while he was in the Senate; the speech, in which he referred to the family's dog, saved his candidacy and illustrated the political potential of television. |
| Interstate Highway Act | 1956, Congress began funding a limited-access interstate highway system that has enormously increased long-distance travel in America and shifted population away from the central city to the suburbs |
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