M13 - The Postwar Boom

A name given to the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act, a 1944 law that provided financial and educational benefits for World War II veterans.

• GI Bill of Rights
• suburb
• Dixiecrat
• Fair Deal
• baby boom

A residential town or community near a city.

• GI Bill of Rights
• suburb
• Dixiecrat
• Fair Deal
• baby boom

The southern delegates who, to protest President Truman’s civil rights policy, walked out of the 1948 Democratic National Convention and formed the States’ Rights Democratic Party.

• GI Bill of Rights
• suburb
• Dixiecrat
• Fair Deal
• baby boom

President Harry S. Truman’s economic program (extension FDR’s New Deal) which included measures to increase the minimum wage, to extend Social Security coverage, and to provide housing for low-income families.

• GI Bill of Rights
• suburb
• Dixiecrat
• Fair Deal
• baby boom

The sharp increase in the U.S. birthrate following World War II.

• GI Bill of Rights
• suburb
• Dixiecrat
• Fair Deal
• baby boom

A major corporation that owns a number of smaller companies in unrelated businesses.

• conglomerate
• franchise
• consumerism
• planned obsolescence
• mass media

A business that has bought the right to use a parent company’s name and methods, thus becoming one of a number of similar businesses in various locations.

• conglomerate
• franchise
• consumerism
• planned obsolescence
• mass media

A preoccupation with the purchasing of material goods or acquiring goods in ever-greater amounts.

• conglomerate
• franchise
• consumerism
• planned obsolescence
• mass media

The designing of products to wear out or to become outdated quickly, so that people will feel a need to replace their possessions frequently.

• conglomerate
• franchise
• consumerism
• planned obsolescence
• mass media

The means of communication— such as television, newspapers, and radio—that reach large audiences.

• conglomerate
• franchise
• consumerism
• planned obsolescence
• mass media