U.S. Domestic Society 1950s & 1960s Terms

individuals or groups who rejected mainstream American life or norms. This idea was especially popular in the 1960s

• House Un-American Activities Committee

• Counterculture

• Baby Boomers

• Conformity

growth of the suburbs of the southwestern states and showed a population shift away from the Northeast and Midwest

• Sunbelt

• Interstate Highway System

• Great Society

• Consumerism

made buying a house easier for average Americans

• Great Society

• Consumerism

• Fair Deal

• Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Loans

name given to the generation born between 1946 and 1964. This group has had a huge impact on American society, government, and culture

• Counterculture

• Baby Boomers

• Conformity

• Mass Media

music, television, and movies used to create a common culture. It also served as a way for the counterculture to deliver its message

• Mass Media

• Counterculture

• Consumerism

• Baby Boomers

created for defense purposes but eventually connected the U.S. and created the American automobile culture

• House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

• G.I. Bill of Rights

• Interstate Highway System

• Conformity

President Truman's program to broaden some New Deal programs such as increasing the minimum wage for interstate businesses

• Great Society

• Fair Deal

• G.I. Bill of Rights

• Baby Boomers

held hearings headed by Senator McCarthy to root put possible communists in the government and society

• Sunbelt

• Conformity

• House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

• Mass Media

buying products, mostly on credit, to improve the standard of living in the United States following World War II

• Sunbelt

• Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Loans

• Great Society

• Consumerism

the process by which an individual's attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors change in order to fit in with society's norms

• Counterculture

• Conformity

• Baby Boomers

• Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Loans