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| Rock n Roll | New type of music that teenagers loved and their parents hated. This type of music became the song of rebellious teens across America. |
| beat movement | New generation of writers that believed the 1950's to be too boring, prudish, and conformists. Beat poets and writers challenged the status quo and felt that America in the 1950's was over idealized. Another form of rebellion for teens and the college age. |
| GI Bill of Rights | Gave scholarships and low interest loans to WWII veterans. |
| Dixiecrats | Radical democrats who spilt from the mainstream Democrat party in 1948. Dixiecrats wanted segregation and Jim Crow laws to stay in America and had no intention of integrating the races. |
| Babyboom | Millions of babies born between the late 1940's to 1964. One of the largest generations ever born in the US. |
| Dr. Jonas Salk | Man responsible for finding the polio vaccine and saving millions from the deadly disease. |
| braceros | Mexican workers who came to the US during World War II to harvest the crops. Many stayed in the US. |
| labor strikes | Thousands of strikes occurred across America and President Truman grew tired of the workers and threatened the striking workers that if they didn't get back to work then he would have them DRAFTED and sent over to the Korean War. |
| Service Sector | During the 1950's manufacturing jobs decreased while service types of jobs increased. |
| television | First came into American homes during the 1950's. Later, 1950's television programs were criticized for only showing a idealized version of family life and white families at that. |
| Richard M. Nixon | First politician to recognize the power of television and used it to further his political career. |
| conglomerate | A large company that owns a lot of smaller companies as well. |
| termination policy | A failed federal policy aimed at Native Americans. This policy took away all the help that the US government had previously given to Native American tribes. |
| planned obsolescence | This marketing strategy deliberately created products that would fall apart quickly so consumers would have to buy more and more. |
