Fabulous Fifties

What factor contributed to increased consumerism in the 1950s?

• Advertising

• Television

• New housing starts

• War time rationing

• all of the above

Where were the majority of new homes built in 1950s?

• Sun Belt

• suburbs

• Rust Belt

• cities

Famous for mass producing homes to meet high demand by young families

• Jonas Salk

• Thurgood Marshall

• William Levitt

• Ray Kroc

An economic shift away from manufacturing led to an increase in _____ jobs.

• agricultural

• blue collar

• pink collar

• white collar

After the devastation of the Great Depression and WWII, many Americans viewed _____ as a way to promote a peacful and prosperoud society.

• consumerism

• conformity

• communism

• planned obsolescence

What contributed to the decay of U.S. cities by the 1960s?

• Franchises

• Jim Crow Laws

• White Flight

• Planned Obsolescence

The 1950s counterculture that rejected mainstream ideas

• Hippies

• Beatniks

• Baby Boomers

• Black Panthers

New term introduced in the 1950s to describe a national identity amongst people the same age

• senior citizen

• mid-life crisis

• teenager

• square

A new design strategy that guarentees a product will need to be replaced

• franchise

• planned obsoloscence

• warranty

• customer service

Not the founder of McDonalds, but the man credited with making it an international sensation

• Ray Kroc

• Thurgood Marshall

• William Levitt

• Jack Kerouac