1. Chapter 19 Postwar America Section 1

2. Readjustment and Recovery  The Impact of the GI Bill -GI Bill of Rights  Housing Crisis -Suburbs  Redefining the Family  Economic Readjustment  Remarkable Recovery

3. Meeting Economic Challenges  President Truman’s Inheritance -Harry S. Truman  Truman faces Strikes  “Had Enough?”

4. Social Unrest Persists  Truman Supports Civil Rights  The 1948 Election -Dixiecrats  Stunning Upset  The Fair Deal -Fair Deal

5. Republicans Take the Middle Road  I Like Ike!  Walking the Middle of the Road

6. Chapter 19 The American Dream in the Fifties Section 2

7. The Organization and the Organization Man  Conglomerates -Conglomerates  Franchises -Franchise  Social Conformity

8. The Suburban Lifestyle  The Baby Boom -Baby Boom  Advances in Medicine and Childcare -Dr. Jonas Salk  Women’s Roles  Leisure in the Fifties

9. The Automobile Culture  Automania  The Interstate Highway System  Mobility Takes its Toll

10. Consumerism Unbound -Consumerism  New Products  Planned Obsolescence -Planned Obsolescence  Buy Now, Pay Later  The Advertising Age

11. Chapter 19 Popular Culture Section 3

12. New Era of the Mass Media  Mass Media  The Rise of Television  Federal Communications Commission (FCC)  Edward R. Murrow  Impact  Stereotypes and Gunslingers  Women and Minorities  Radio and Movies  Survival over TV

13. A Subculture Emerges  The Beat Movement  Nonconformity  Allen Ginsberg  Jack Kerouac

14. African Americans Rock ‘n’ Roll Rock ‘n’ Roll  “American” Music  Chuck Berry  Elvis Presley  The Racial Gap  Jazz

15. Chapter 19 The Other America Section 4

16. The Urban Poor  White Flight  Impact on African Americans  The Inner Cities  Poverty  Urban Renewal  National Housing Act  HUD

17. Poverty Leads to Activism  Mexicans Seek Employment  Braceros (hired hands)  Illegal immigrants  The Longoria Incident  Felix Longoria  Native Americans Continue their Struggle  Dawes Act to the Indian Reorganization Act  National Congress of American Indians  The Termination Policy