Chapter 27 - The Postwar Boom

The United States policy to HOLD communism within the Soviet Union and Eastern  Europe is known as ...

• the Domino Theory
• the open door policy
• the mutual assured destruction
• containment

The GI Bill gave veterans all of the following EXCEPT...

• housing opportunities
• educational opportunities
• freedom opportunities
• employment opportunities

________________________ desegregated the military.

• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Harry Truman
• Joseph Stalin
• Winston Churchill

Southern Democrats

• Dixiecrat
• Dixiepublican
• Whig Party
• Libertarian

WWII general who later became president. Put forth the domino theory.

• Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Harry S. Truman
• John F. Kennedy
• Richard Nixon

Under Eisenhower, the interstate highway system was expanded to 41,000 miles allowing motorists to travel easily and allowed for troop movement and evacuation routes.

• Interstate Highway Act
• War Powers Act
• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
• 25th Amendment

Mixture of blues, country and pop.  Became American music.  Heavy rhythm, simple melodies and lyrics featuring love, cars and problems of being young.  Loved by teenagers hated by adults.  Helped to cause the “generation gap.”

• Rock 'n' Roll
• Jazz
• Country
• R&B

Encouraged veterans to get an education by paying part of their tuition and also guaranteed them a year’s worth of unemployment benefits while job hunting.

• GI Bill
• McCarthyism
• War Powers Act
• 26th Amendment

Developed a vaccine for poliomyelitis (polio).

• Jonas Salk
• Albert Einstein
• FDR
• Francis Gary Powers

The movement of people out of American urban areas after the Second World War led to

• more jobs being created, decreased traffic, and more businesses in urban areas
• suburban sprawl, increased traffic, and a decrease of green spaces bordering the cities
• more individualized homes being built, the growth of the suburbs, and more jobsbeing created
• renovation of urban areas, growth of the suburbs, and the loss of green spaces bordering the cities