REVISION 2: The Postwar Boom

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Most Americans in the 1960s relied on ___ as their primary source of entertainment and information.

The expression of nonconformity by ___ developed into the beat movement.