Cold War Vocab Part 1

Define The Beat Generation 

•  a literary subculture movement that influenced American culture and politics 

• the unique behaviors, norms, and values typified by adolescents  

•  a period marked by a significant increase of births 

• advertisements for popular consumer goods, modern amenities, housing, and automobiles 

• comprised of people who either fought during World War II or were children during that period

Define Baby Boom 

• comprised of people who either fought during World War II or were children during that period 

•  a period marked by a significant increase of births 

• the unique behaviors, norms, and values typified by adolescents  

•  advertisements for popular consumer goods, modern amenities, housing, and automobiles 

•  a literary subculture movement that influenced American culture and politics 

Define the Silent Generation

• comprised of people who either fought during World War II or were children during that period 

•  a period marked by a significant increase of births 

• the unique behaviors, norms, and values typified by adolescents  

•  advertisements for popular consumer goods, modern amenities, housing, and automobiles 

•  a literary subculture movement that influenced American culture and politics 

Define Youth Culture 

• comprised of people who either fought during World War II or were children during that period 

•  a period marked by a significant increase of births 

• the unique behaviors, norms, and values typified by adolescents  

•  advertisements for popular consumer goods, modern amenities, housing, and automobiles 

•  a literary subculture movement that influenced American culture and politics 

Define Consumerism

• comprised of people who either fought during World War II or were children during that period 

•  a period marked by a significant increase of births 

• the unique behaviors, norms, and values typified by adolescents  

•  advertisements for popular consumer goods, modern amenities, housing, and automobiles 

•  a literary subculture movement that influenced American culture and politics 

America's prototypical postwar planned communities that were mass-produced to house GI’s and other post war families are referred to as ​ (a)  

• Levitttowns
• GI Bill
• Redlining
• Suburbs 
• White Flight

Racial discrimination concerning housing that denies Black residents because they were deemed risky investments is referred to as   ​ ​ (a)  

• Levittowns
• White Flight
• Suburbs
• Redlining
• GI Bill

an outlying district of a city  is referred to as   ​ ​ ​ (a)  

• Levittowns
• White Flight
• Redlining
• GI Bill
• the Suburbs

Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944  ​ ​ ​ (a)  

• Levittowns
• White Flight
• Redlining
• Suburbs
• G I Bill

A gradual large-scale migration of white people from areas becoming more racially or ethnoculturally diverse is referred to as ​ ​ ​ (a)  

• Levittowns
• G I Bill
• Redlining
• Suburbs
• White Flight