US History 1945-1960
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- He ran as a Dixiecrat in the presidential election of 1948
- Strom Thurmond
- He was the Republican candidate for the Presidency in 1948
- Thomas E. Dewey
- He delivered the Checkers speech that kept him on the Presidential ticket for 1952
- Richard Nixon
- He ran as the Democratic candidate twice against Eisenhower
- Adali Stevenson
- How did per capita income and real purchasing power change in the 1950's?
- Both increased
- Why did President Truman expect to lose the election of 1948?
- He wasn't supported by the left or the right wings of the Democratic party
- Eisenhower favored programs that
- aided big business
- Factors of suburban growth in the postwar period
-
the GI bill
the baby boom
mass produced homes - One effect of business expansion after WWII
- shift from blue collar to white collar jobs
- The Taft-Hartley Act was passed to
- restrict labor strikes that threatened national interest
- The beatniks of the 50's were
- rebelling against conformity and traditional social patterns
- Most American women in the 50's planned to become
- full-time mothers
- Eisenhower's administration's termination policy wanted to eliminate
- segregation in Little Rock, Arkansas
- President Truman used _____________ to prevent strikes that crippled the nation
- the threat of the draft
- The GI bill was designed to
- ease transition from the military to civilian life
- The polio vaccine
- ended the worst health threat to children of the 1950's
-
Teen agers used this for relief from
the conformity of their families - Rock and Roll
- Many Mexicans were allowed into the US through
- the bracero program
- Primary source of entertainment and information in the 1960's
- the telephone
- stereophonic sound, popular culture, three dimensional images, wide-angled images
- film in the 1950's
- I love Lucy, Father Knows Best, glorification of the American West
- television of the 1950's
- Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, roots in rhythm and blues
- rock 'n' roll
- beatniks, Jack Kerouac, nontraditional forms of poetry
- Beat Movement
- focus on specialized audiences, increase in advertising revenues, focus on local and community interests
- radio in the 1950's
- gives group or individual the right to market a national company's goods and services
- franchise
- Truman's platform that included integration, and national health care
- Fair Deal
- Corporations that invest in a wide range of businesses that produce different kinds of goods and services
- conglomerate
- preoccupation with buying material goods
- consumerism
- market strategy in which manufacturers purposely design products to wear out or become outdated in a short period of time
- planned obsolescence
- President Eisenhower's conservative approach to government
- Modern Republicanism