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