Topic 8.5-8.7 vocabulary

sending home members of the military

• productivity

• demobilization

• beatniks

• consumerism

eased the return of WW2 veterans by providing education and employment aid

• GI Bill of Rights

• demobilization

• franchise business

• productivity

increase in births

• service sector

• information industry

• productivity

• baby boom

the rate at which goods are produced or services performed

• service sector

• baby boom

• productivity

• information industry

businesses that provide services rather than manufactured goods

• multinational corporation

• franchise business

• American Federation of Labor

• service sector

name given to the region of States in the South and Southwest

• Sunbelt

• franchise business

• California Master Plan

• urban renewal

President Truman's program to expand New Deal reforms

• The New Deal

• The Fair Deal

• The Square Deal

• The New Economy

a law that restricted the power of labor unions

• Fair Deal

• Interstate Highway Act

• Congress of Industrial Organizations

• Taft-Hartley Act

businesses that provides informational services

• franchise business

• multinational corporation

• service sector

• information industry

to allow a company to distribute its products and/or services through retail outlets owned by independent operators

• multinational corporation

• service sector

• franchise business

• information industry