Greenberg - Unit 8 The 1950's and 1960's
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Why did vets get low interest loans when coming back from war? (Serviceman's Readjustment Act) | To buy a house and/or start a business. |
| Define. Suburbs | area surrounding a city |
| Identify. William Levitt | Used mass production techniques in home building |
| What led to the creation of the suburbs? | Severe housing shortage |
| What happened when the US converted form wartime to peacetime economy? | Unemployment- wartime related jobs went away, Inflation - prices rose because of loss of price freeze |
| How did the cold war contribute to the booming economy? | american companies helped rebuild europe |
| What did Truman do to prevent the union strikes? | threatened to draft all the workers |
| Define. Dixiecrats | southern democrat, opposes civil rights |
| What do Truman use as a campaign tool? | "do-nothing" congress |
| Explain. Do - Nothing Congress | goes around doing nothing? |
| What was a failure of FDR's New Deal? | National Healthcare |
| Explain. Checkers Speech | speech made by Nixon, Eisenhower's VP, he uses TV to solve a problem - he received a "bribe" in the form of a dog named checkers. |
| What were the reasons for the baby boom? | Medicine improved, Families reunited after the war, there was a good economy. |
| Why were more people working in the city and living in the suburbs? | growth of highways, cheap gas and cars |
| Identify. Dr. Jonas Salk | developed polio vaccine |
| What were the positives and negative aspects of the automobile industry? | positive: economy negative: noise, pollution, accidents |
| What was the first credit card issued? | the diners club |
| Identify. FCC | Federal Communications Commision |
| What were specific complaints about tv programs? | violent, and racial stereotypes |
| What did radio due to survive the invention of tv? | focused on local programs |
| what did movies do to survive the invention of tv? | had 3-d movies |
| Deine. Beatnik | person who tended to shun regular work and lived alternative lifestyles |
| Where did the beat movement find many followers? | college campuses |
| Who was the first disc jockey to play rock-n-roll music? | alan freed |
| What was the concern of adults when rock-n-roll came out? | bad influence on kids |
| What was the direct impact of people moving ot the suburbs? | cities suffered a loss in taxbase |
| What was the result of Kennedy and Nixon debate on tv? | kennedy won based on appearance/style |
| What was JFK's policy of "flexible response"? | peace corps, creation of special forces |
| What was Castro like as a leader? | brutal dictator |
| Why was it a problem for Khrushchev and communism that people were moving from east germany into west germany? | huge embarrasment |
| How did they solve the problem of moving form east to west berlin? | they put up the berlin wall |
| What happened to the US trained cuban exiles? | they were completley defeated by cuba |
| What happened with the cuban missile crisis? | soviet ships turned around and went back to russia instead of arming cuba because we decided to disarm turkey and promised not to attack castro |
| What was the hot line? | a direct line between the kremlin and the white house |
| what was the limited test ban treaty? | barred nuclear testing in the atmosphere |
| Who was the first american in space? | alan shepard |
| What were the 2 major obstacles in the way of JFK's new frontier? | economic resession and southern democrats against him |
| What was the alliance for progress? | JFK's program that offered economic and technical assistance to latin america. not successful |
| What was th eimpact of the space program on the US? | national pride, advanced technology |
| Who took the first steps on the moon? | Neil Armstrong |
| Who killed Oswald? | Jack Ruby |
| Who was charged with Kennedys murder? | Oswald |
| What was the warren commision? | investigated assaniation, said oswald worked alone. |
| Why was JOhnson a good choice for vp? | expierence in washington and from the south |
| What were the provisions of the Economic Oppurtunity Act? | work study program, job corps and headstart |
| What were some of Barry Goldwaters conservative beliefs? | ending social security and using nuclear warfare in vietnam |
| what was a key aspect of the goldwater vs lbj election? | daisy commercial |
| Deifne. Medicare | health insurance for eldery |
| Define., Medicade | health insurance for the poor |
| Who was RObert Weaver? | 1st balck cabinet official in nation |
| Ralph Nader | lawyer fighting for rights of consumers |
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