AP US History 1940s/1950s Last remaining domestic details (and a couple foreign details)

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AP US History 1940s/1950s Last remaining domestic details (and a couple foreign details)

Servicemen’s readjustment Act, 1944 (GI Bill)

Taft-Hartley Act, 1947

“Dewey Defeats Truman”—NOT!

Eisenhower as president,

Military-industrial complex

SEATO (1954)

Operation Wetback, 1954

“Indian New Deal”--further implementation

Suez Canal crisis (1956)

Alaska and Hawaii become states (1959)

OPEC (1960)

Women’s roles and “Leave it to Beaver”

Baby boom

Levittowns, suburbanization/white flight

Public housing, white flight

Television, etc.

Organization man, gray flannel suit conformity

Playboy Magazine, McDonalds (1950s)

Sunbelt

Rustbelt

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