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chapter 19
10th AMERICAN HISTORY CHAPTER 10postwar america
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| suburbs | small residential communities around the cities |
| Harry S. Truman | became president after FDR died |
| Dixiecrats | formed the states rights democratic party |
| Fair deal | an extension to the new deal included world wide proporsals |
| conglomerates | a major corporation that includes a number of smaller companies in unrelated industires |
| fanchise | a company that offers similar products or services in many location |
| baby boom | world War 2 soldiers came home and made a unprecedent population explosion |
| Dr. Jonas Salk | developed a vaccine for the crippling disease POLIO |
| Planned obsolescence | creating new products, manufacturers began using a marketing strategy |
| consumerism | buying material goods, came to be equated with success |
| Federal Communications Commission | FCC. The government agency that regulates and licenses television, telephone, telegraph, radio, and other communication industries |
| Beat Movement | expressed the social and literary nonconformity of artisits |
| rock n roll | a name that has blues and country and pop |
| Urban renewal | proposed solution to the housing problem in inner citites |
| braceros | allowed into US to harvest crops |
| termination policy | eliminated federal economic support , discontinued the reservation system, and distributed tribal lands among individual Native Americans |