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chapter 19
10th AMERICAN HISTORY CHAPTER 10postwar america
Question | Answer |
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suburbs | small residential communities around the cities |
Harry S. Truman | became president after FDR died |
Dixiecrats | formed the states rights democratic party |
Fair deal | an extension to the new deal included world wide proporsals |
conglomerates | a major corporation that includes a number of smaller companies in unrelated industires |
fanchise | a company that offers similar products or services in many location |
baby boom | world War 2 soldiers came home and made a unprecedent population explosion |
Dr. Jonas Salk | developed a vaccine for the crippling disease POLIO |
Planned obsolescence | creating new products, manufacturers began using a marketing strategy |
consumerism | buying material goods, came to be equated with success |
Federal Communications Commission | FCC. The government agency that regulates and licenses television, telephone, telegraph, radio, and other communication industries |
Beat Movement | expressed the social and literary nonconformity of artisits |
rock n roll | a name that has blues and country and pop |
Urban renewal | proposed solution to the housing problem in inner citites |
braceros | allowed into US to harvest crops |
termination policy | eliminated federal economic support , discontinued the reservation system, and distributed tribal lands among individual Native Americans |