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ch 27 honors
Chapter 27 on postwar america
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Sidney Poitier | African American actor who expressed resentment for having to play stereotypical roles in the 1950s |
| Alan Freed | Disc Jockey who launhced rock'n' roll by playign African American music in Cleveland |
| Chuck Berry | African Americans singer who recorded hit songs in the 50s |
| Elvis Presley | "The King of Rock 'N' Roll" |
| Strom Thurmond | Dixiecrat candidate for President in the 1948 election |
| Richard Nixon | Eisenhower's Vice President - future President. Famous for his "Checkers Speech" |
| Allen Ginsberg | Famous Beatnik poet who blasted modern American Life |
| Jonas Salk | Developed an injetable vaccine for polio |
| ALbert Sabin | developed an oral vaccine for polio |
| Harry S. Truman | President who promised the American People a "Fair Deal" |
| What did the GI Bill do? | Helped returning soldiers pay for college, find job placement and pay for housing |
| The States Rights Party is another name for whom? | The Dixiecrats |
| Why did the Dixiecrats form? | They Democrats in the south who were opposed to Truman's Civil Rights Actions |
| After the end of WW2, did strikes increase or decrease? | Increase. It had been illegal to strike during the war. |
| What happened when the coal miners went on strike? | Truman ordered government seizure of the mines and then pressure downers to grant most of the union demands. |
| Who was Checkers? | Nixon's dog. When he was running as VP with Eisenhower he had been accused of using political money for personal means. He said the only gift he had received that he would not give up was a dog named Checkers. |
| What is "Creeping" socialism? | Eisenhower was conservative and id not like that the federal government was continuing to aid businesses. He called this aid "creeping socialism". |
| What did the invention of the transistor make possible? | The miniaturization of radios and calculators |
| Rock'n"roll grew out of the sounds of what kidn of music? | rhymthm and blues |
| What was the book, "The Other America" about? | The poverty in America... that there was 1/5 of the country below the poverty line |
| What was the biggest juvenile crime of the 1950s? | Car Theft |
| How did African American salaries compare to White salaries? | They only made about 1/2 |
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