Suburbs and Home Ownership After WW2

When world War 2 was over, many Americans moved away from cities in ...

• ghettos.

• suburbs.

What is a GI?

• A private soldier in the US army.

• A private soldier in the German army.

• A private soldier in the Russian army.

What did the GI bill do for soldiers returning home from the war?

• Helped them find medical attention.

• Helped the find affordable housing and jobs.

• Helped them find new wars to fight in.

What were American factories used for during World War 2?

• To make automobiles and textiles, like sheets, blankets, and clothes.

• To make ammunition, uniforms, tanks, and weapons.

After the Allies won the war, the people who worked in those factories, turned their talents to building houses for...

• Japanese Americans.

• politicians.

• veterans of World War 2.

• veterans of World War 1.

When GIs (private soldiers in the American army) returned home from World War 2, they began to buy houses and move to areas known as ...

• arenas

• venues

• suburbs

• sunburns

Techniques of _______ ____________ made it possible to build homes faster and cheaper than ever before.

• mass exodus

• mass pressure

• mass production

• mass exposure

One of the nation's leading construction firms, _____________ and _____________, embarked on a plan to mass-produce homes on the outskirts of New York City.

• Levi and Strauss

• Levion and Carter

• Levitt and Sons

• Levine and Ivy

Levitt and Sons purchased 4000 acres of potato fields in _________ _____________ to make plans for the largest housing project in American history, which they named Levittown.

• Staten Island

• Sheep Island

• Easter Island

• Long Island

Using an ____________ __________ system, the construction company Levitt and Sons built three giant suburbs in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.

• hook-ladder

• lever-pully

• assembly-line