25-2 and 25-3 Flashcards
(17 cards)
GI Bill
Law passed in 1944 to help returning veterans buy homes and pay for higher education like college.
Baby Boom
Large increase in the birth rate from the late 1940’s through the early 1960’s.
Rock-and-Roll Music
Style of music derived from rhythm and blues and country music.
Elvis Presley
King of Rock and Roll.
Inner city
The older and more populated and (usually) poorer central section of a city. After World War Two this are suffered from people moving to the suburbs. Crime rose, less taxes were collected, buildings crumbled and many times the poor and less educated lived in this area.
Election of 1948
Truman pulled off a surprise victory over Dewey.
Election of 1952
A race between Dwight D. Eisenhower for the Republicans and Adlai Stevenson for the Democrats. Eisenhower won in a landslide.
Interstate Highway Act
1956 law that authorized the spending billions to build 41,000 miles of highway.
Suburbs (After WWII)
Outlying residential areas adjacent to cities. The demand for housing & car ownership led to this growth after World War Two.
Why were Americans living longer after World War Two?
-Antibiotics
-New vaccines
-New medical technology
Why did Americans moved to the Sunbelt?
-Warmer climate
-Invention of air conditioning
-Jobs
Why did Americans moved to the Sunbelt?
-Warmer climate
-Invention of air conditioning
-Jobs
stalemate
A deadlock in which neither side is able to defeat the other.
What started the Korean War?
North Korea crossed the 38 parallel and attacked South Korea.
General MacArthur
Commander of the UN forces at the beginning of the Korean War, however President Harry Truman removed him from his command after MacArthur expressed a desire to bomb Chinese bases.
demilitarized zone
Area from which military forces are prohibited. One of these was created between the two Koreas.
Joseph McCarthy
US senator who claimed that their were Soviet spies and Communists within the government but had no evidence. The red scare era was called McCarthyism.
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
Married couple who become the first U.S. citizens put to death for espionage in 1953. They were charged with passing atomic bomb secrets to the Soviets.
