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1.demobilization sending home members of the army
2.GI Bill of Rights eased the return or World War 2 verterans by providing education and eployment aid
3.baby boom increase in births between 1945 and 1968
4.productivity the rate at which goods are produced or survies performed
5.Taft-Hartley Act a law that restricted the power of labor unions
6.Fair Deal President Trumans program to expend New Deals reforms
7.Sunbelt name given to the region of states in the South and Southwest
8.service sector businesses that provide than manufactured goods
9.information industry businesses that provide informationals services
10.franchise business allows company to distribute its products or services through retail outlets owned by independent operators
11.multinational corporation companies that produce and sell their goods and survices all over the world
12.AFL-CIO in 1955 the American Federation of Labor AFL and the congress of Industrial Organization CIO labor unions united
13.California Master Plan called for three tiers of higher education reasearch universities state colleges and community colleges all of which were to be accessible to all the states citizens
14.consumerism large scale buying much of it on credit
15.median family income measure of average family income
16.nuclear family ideal or typical houeshold with a father mother and children
17.Benjamin Spock emphasized the importance of nurturing children ,from their earliest days as infants through their teen years
18.rock-and-roll music originated in the gospel and blues traditions of African Americans
19.Elvis Presley listened to a Memphis radio station that played African American gospel tunes
20.beatnik small group of writers and artist in the 1950's and early 1960's who were critical of American society
21.inner city the older, central part of a city with crowded neighborhoods in which low-income,usually minority groups,live
22.urban renewal government programs for redevelopment of urban ereas
23.termination policy ended all programs monitored by the Bureau of Indian Affairs;also ended federals responsibility for the health and welfare of Native Americans
24.Interstate Highway Act 1956 law that authorized the spending of $32 billion to build 41,000 miles of highway
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