| A | B |
|---|
| GI Bill of Rights | provided educational and job training benefits to returning veterans |
| suburbs | communities surrounding cities |
| Harry S Truman | became president after the death of Roosevelt |
| Jackie Robinson | became the first African American to play major league baseball |
| Dixiecrats | states' rights party that nominated Strom Thurmond for president in 1948 |
| Fair Deal | Trumans domestic economic program |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | elected president in 1952 as a Republican |
| Richard Nixon | Eisenhower's vice-president |
| conglomerate | a corporation made up of smaller, unrelated companies |
| franchise | company that offers similar products or services at several locations |
| baby boom | post WWII population explosion |
| Dr. Jonas Salk | developed a polio vaccine |
| Norman Rockwell | artist; master of realistic detail of the 1950s |
| Interstate Highway System | patterned after the Autobahn in Germany, this made long distance commuting possible |
| consumerism | buying material goods |
| planned obsolesence | marketing strategy of purposely designing products that will become obsolete |
| Federal Communications Commission | government agency that regulates and licenses television, radio, telephone and other communications industries |
| mass media | means of communications to reach large audiences |
| beat movement | expressed the social and literary nonconformity of artists, poets and writers |
| rock 'n' roll | promoted by Alan Freed, a blend of blues, country and pop |
| jazz | music characterized by improvisation |
| urban renewal | called for tearing down rundown neighborhoods and building new homes for inner city residents |
| braceros | Mexican guest workers |
| termination policy | eliminated federal econominc support and the reservation system for Native Americansq |
