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Vocab
Post WWII Vocab Unit 12
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| consumer goods | things that are bought by people for everyday life, such as clothing, furniture, refrigerators, and television sets |
| productivity | a measure that compares how much of a product a business produces, to the total amount of labor and materials needed to produce it |
| Baby Boom | the generation born after WWII from 1946 to 1960 |
| demographics | statistics that describe various patterns in a population of people |
| Interstate Highway System | the modern highways built across the U.S mostly in the 1950s and 1960s, to provide fast and safe transportation for cars and trucks |
| G.I Bill of Rights | a law passed by Congress near the end of WWII to help veterans adjust back to civilian life |
| Civil Rights Movement | the push by many Americans to end racial segregation and racial discrimination in the U.S |
| Women's Movement | the push by many Americans during the 1960s and 1970s to seek full equality for women in all aspects of life |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | the wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt who later became famous for her efforts to promote human rights around the world |
| desegregation | to end segregation |
| Civil Rights legislation | law passed to end segregation or to eliminate unfair discrimination against African American or other minority groups |
| telecommunications | any form of communication over a distance, but especially by electronic and wireless means, such as cell phones, pagers and satellite TV |
| pagers | small electronic devices that can receive short text messages, but cannot transmit a message back |
| news media | any form of communication that spreads information to the public about current events, such as radio, TV, the Internet, newspaper, or magazines |
| Charles Drew | a famous African American doctor who helped create safe methods for the large-scale collection and storage of blood plasma |
| blood plasma | the part of blood that is left when the red blood cells are removed |
| J.Robert Oppenheimer | A physicist and leader of the Manhattan Project during WWII to create an atomic bomb |
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