Chapter 27 The Postwar Boom

Planned obsolescence is a marketing strategy designed to encourage consumers to buy more goods.

• True

• False

The beat movement was centered in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York City's Greenwich Village.

• True

• False

The braceros were Mexican workers who came to the United States during World War II to harvest crops

• True

• False

The Dixiecrats were strong supporters of Truman's civil rights policies.

• True

• False

The termination policy was a failed federal program aimed at African Americans.

• True

• False

One of the benefits that the GI Bill of Rights offered to returning veterans was ___.

• counseling

• low-interest loans

• free homes

• government jobs

President Truman threatened to ___ striking workers to prevent strikes from crippling the nation.

• arrest

• Sue

• draft

• deport

A ___ is a large corporation that owns a number of smaller companies.

• franchise

• monopoly

• government agency

• conglomerate

The vast majority of new homes in the 1950s were built in the ___ .

• big cities

• suburbs

• small cities

• rural areas

With more money to spend and an increased number of products to buy, ___ became an American way of life.

• consumerism

• social conformity

• planned obsolescence

• a 40-hour work week