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| Large coporations that own many smaller companies that produces entirely different goods and services is called a _______________. | Conglomerate |
| Why did corporations form conglomerates? | They were concerned about investing all of their resources in one industry |
| What is a franchise? | The right to open a restaurant using the parent companies brand name and system |
| What invention was developed in the 1930's and became extremely popular in the 1950's? | television |
| How did the term debugging enter the American language? | an employee removed a moth caught in a relay switch that caused a compter to shut down. |
| This is a tiny circuit that amplifies, controls, and generates electrical signals and helped to make computers smaller. | transistor |
| He was a navy captain who oversaw the development of the first commercial nuclear power plant where electrical power was generated from the use of atomic energy. | Hyman G. Rickover |
| Who was credited with making a vaccine for polio? | Dr. Jonas Salk |
| What antibiotic became popular in the 1950's? | penicillin |
| Workers who produced good were called _________ collar workers. | blue |
| Workers who performed services were called _____________ collar workers. | white |
| What labor organization joined the American Federation of Labor? | CIO |
| What was the Servicemen's Readjustment Act? | It was more commonly known as the GI bill. It gave GI's low-interest mortgages to purchase their own home. |
| Who developed a system to mass produce houses? | William J. Lovitt |
| What act provided a national web of new roads? | The 1956 Interstate Highway Act |
| Who coined the term that American had become "the affluent society"? | John Kenneth Galbraith |
| Why were the youth of the 1950's often called "the silent generation"? | They had little interest in the problems of the larger world. |
| In 1954, what two words were added to the Pledge of Alliegience? | Under God |
| What phrase was printed on U.S. money? | In God We Trust |
| Who became an evangelist in the 1950's and attracted a huge following? | Billy Graham |
| Who wrote "The Common Sense Book of Baby Care" in 1946? | Dr. Benjamin Spock |
| Who wrote "The Feminine Mystique" in which she lashed out at the culture that denied creative roles to women? | Betty Friedan |
| Who became a teenage idol when he starred in "Rebel without a Cause" | James Dean |
| This was a new kind of music that grew out of the rhythm and blues tradition and became popular in the 1950's. | Rock-n-Roll |
| He made his first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show and became known as The King of Rock and Roll. | Elvis Presley |
| These were mainly writers and artists who stressed spontaneity and spirituality and shocked people with their open sexuality and use of illegal drugs. | The Beatniks |
| What was unique about Jack Kerouac's novel "On The Road in 1957" ? | It was written on a roll of toilet paper. It lacked standard punctuation and paragraph structure that ws suppose to represent an open approach to life. |
| What was Truman's first priority as President? | reconversion |
| What did Truman mean by reconversion? | the social and economic transition from wartime to peacetime |
| What happened to the American economy whenthe rationing and price controls of World War II were gone? | saw inflation |
| What industry striked in 1946 and caused a big disruption in the economy? | The Railroad Strike |
| How did Truman want to deal with the Railroad strike? | He wanted to draft them into the army and then as soldiers force them to go back to work. This idea was rejected by the Senate. |
| What was the Taft-Hartley Act? | It allowed the President to call an 80 day cooling off period in strikes that affected national interest in which workers were required to continue working while the government studied the situation. |
| This name was given to Truman's 21 point program to promote employment, raise minimum wage, create more unemployment compensation, etc. | The Fair Deal |
| In the 1948 election, what occurred in the democratic party? | The democratic party split |
| Who led the State's Rights or the Dixicrat party? | Strom Thurmond of South Carolina |
| The Liberal Wing of the Democratic party deserted Truman to follow who? | Henry Wallace of the Progressive Party |
| Who was the Republican Candidate in 1948? | Thomas Dewy |
| What technique did Truman use to win the 1948 election? | He traveled the country making speeches and told farmers that the reason they would not get more storage bins and would have to sell their grain for a low price was because of Congress. |
| What nickname did Truman give the 80th Congress? | the "do-nothing Congress" |
| What slogan did people begin using about Harry S. Truman? | "Give em Hell, Harry" |
| The Chicago Tribune, as well as most of the experts were sure Truman would lose. The Chicago Tribune was so sure, what did they do? | They printed their morning edition early and the headline read that Dewey had won. |
| Who was the Democratic Candidate in the election of 1952? | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Who was the Republican Candidate in the 1952 election? | Adlai Stephenson |
| What slogan was used by Eisenhower in the 1952 election? | "I Like Ike" |
| What did the slogan K1C2 stand for? | Korea, Communism, and Corruption |
| What was the famous Nixon Checkers Speech? | Nixon, Eisenhower's running mate, had been accused of having a special fund set up by rich republican supporters. Nixon went on television and denied receiving any gifts, except one, a cocker spaniel named checkers that his daughter just adored. |
| How did Eisenhower react to federal spending and the deficit? | He tried to cut federal spending, reduce taxes, and balance the budget. |
| What name was given to Eisenhower's approach to slow the growth of the federal government? | dynamic conservatism or modern republicanism |
| What event in the Soviet Union caused many Americans to fear they were losing their competitive edge and caused them to fear a nuclear attack? | The 1957 launching of the Soviet Sputnik |
| What was America's response to the launching of Sputnik? | The National Defense Education Act which was designed to improve science and math instruction in schools and provided millions of dollars in low cost loans to college students and reduced repayment if they became teachers. |
| How did Truman show his support for the Civil Rights movement? | He asked Congress for: an anti-lynching law, abolish the poll tax, and to establish a permanent board to prevent discriminatory practices in hiring. He ordered an end to segregation in hiring federal employees and also an end to segregation in the armed forces. |
| Who was the first African American to play in the major league? He was signed by the Dodgers and opened the way for other African Americans to enter professional sports. | Jackie Robinson |
| What Supreme Court decision said that use of separate facilities for African Americans was legal as long as it was equal. | Plessy v. Ferguson |
| What was the outcome of the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Topeka Board of Education? | That separate was not equal and that segregation was no longer premissible in public education. |
| Who was the lawyer who argued on behalf of Brown in Brown v. Topeka Board of Education? | Thurgood Marshall |
| Who was the seamstress who refused to give up her seat in Montgomery, Alabama and started the Montgomery Bus Boycott | Rosa Parks |
| Who was a young Baptist Minister in Montgomery who became a spokesperson for the Civil Rights movement? | Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| In what city did the National Guard have to be called to a school in order for nine African American students to enter the school? | Little Rock Arkansas, also called the Little Rock Nine |
| Why did protests erupt at a funeral home in Texas when a Mexican American died? | The funeral home refused to bury Felix Longoria, a Mexican American War Hero. The protests led to him being buried in Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, D.C. |
| The government solution to the Native American discrimination was the policy of termination. What was termination? | It was getting rid of government reservations and assimilate Native Americans into society. It met with resistance and was discarded and many Native Americans continued to live in poverty. |
