1. VOCABULARY Suburb – the area just outside a large city
Dixiecrat – Political party that developed in the 1950s when segregationists broke away from the national Democrats
Baby Boom – Period between 1946 and 1964 when there was a large increase in the number of babies born
Planned Obsolescence – a marketing strategy that started in the 1950s in which companies made products to become outdated making you to want the new and improved model

2. VOCABULARY
118. Mass Media – communication with a large number of people through one source
119. Beat Movement – (Beatniks) social and artistic movement of the nonconformists of the 1950s
120. Termination Policy – plan by the US government to end all federal economic support for the Native Americans by discontinuing the reservation system and redistributing all tribal lands

3. CHAPTER 19 THE POST WAR BOOM THE NIFTY FIFTIES

4. TAFT-HARTLEY ACT Outlawed closed shops.
The practice of businesses hiring only union members
Businesses had to be “open shops”

5. GI BILL
Helped WW II veterans
College
Home
Business

6. ASSEMBLY LINE HOMES
Levittown

7. POPULATION SHIFT
CITY TO
SUBURB

9. TRUMAN INTEGRATION LABOR STRIKES Supported civil rights Were a problem
Pushed congress to pass laws – they would not
Executive order
Integrate the armed forces
LABOR STRIKES
Were a problem
Threatened to draft them

10. DIXIECRATS 1948 Election Civil Rights is key issue for Democrats
Southern Democrats
Strom Thurmond

11. TRUMAN’S FAIR DEAL Introduced as an extension of the New Deal
Crop Subsidy
Nation wide health insurance
Raise minimum wage
Extended social security
Flood control and irrigation projects

12. VOCABULARY
Suburb
Dixiecrat
Baby Boom
Planned Obsolescence

13. VOCABULARY
Mass Media
Beat Movement
Termination Policy

14. 1952 ELECTION
Eisenhower wins
Nixon is vice pres.

15. Brown v. Board of Education
Rosa Parks

16. Eisenhower and Civil Rights
Did not believe a federal law was necessary
The ENFORCER

17. Alaska and Hawaii become states under Eisenhower

18. SWITCH from BLUE COLLAR to WHITE COLLAR JOBS

19. CONGLOMERATE
AT&T
General Electric
AOL/Time Warner
Walt Disney
Sony

20. FRANCHISE
McDonald’s
A company that offers similar products and service at many locations
McDonald’s

21. SOCIAL CONFORMITY

22. COMMUTING
MADE POSSIBLE BY
New highways
Gasoline
automobiles

23. SUBURBAN LIFE WONDERFUL DREAM HOME SINGLE FAMILY HOME GOOD SCHOOLS
SAFE
WHITE PICKET FENCE

24. THE BABY BOOM

25. Jonas Salk
Polio
vaccine

26. WOMEN OF THE 1950S

27. AUTOMANIA

28. INTERSTATE HIGHWAY ACT
Easier trucking
Towns grew
Vacations
Shopping centers grew
Industries moved away from cities

29. Eminent Domain

30. PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE

31. CREDIT - ADVERTISEMENTS

32. MASS MEDIA FCC

33. ENTERTAINMENT MOVIES AND TV
TV Guide TV dinners
Stereotypes and Fads
Smellovision

34. B E A T M O V N

35. ALAN FREED AND ROCK & ROLL

36. AFRICAN AMERICANS AND POP CULTURE
The Story About Ruby Valentine

37. White Flight Many White Americans left cities and went to suburbs
Less people in the cities – less money for services so the cities began to decline

38. BRACERO PROGRAM LONGORIA INCIDENT

39. TERMINATION POLICY Change of policy of dealing with Native Americans
Eisenhower put policy in place
Withdrew federal aid from Native Americans
It lasted 10 years and was a failure

40. 1950s trends – housing, population shifts
1950s trends – housing, population shifts Baby Boom Beat Movement Benjamin Spock Civil War in China Commuting Conglomerate Containment Covert Operations in Middle East and Latin America Dixiecrats East and West Germany Eisenhower and Civil Rights Eisenhower Doctrine Franchise GI Bill of Rights HUAC Interstate Highway Act Iron Curtain John Foster Dulles Jonas Salk Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Khrushchev Korean War Loyalty Review Board Marshall Plan Mass Media McCarthyism NATO Open Skies Potsdam Conference Sputnik Stalin Truman Doctrine Truman’s presidency U-2 Flights United Nations Warsaw Pact Yalta Conference NATO/Warsaw Map