Post War Boom & GI Bill

This federal program provided economic benefits to veterans such as money for education and low rate loans for homes and businesses

• Suburbanization

• Interstate Highway System (Federal Highway Act

• GI Bill of Rights (Servicemen's Readjustment Act

• Cash and Carry

The birth of the largest generation of Americans born between 1946 & 1955 was called the

• Hippie Generation

• Gen X

• Millenials

• Baby Boom

Program that provided a wide range of financial benefits to World War 2 Veterans, many former soldiers bought homes and attended college through the program.

• Red Scare

• Beatnicks

• GI Bill

• Suburbs

Which of the following are benefits of the GI Bill?

• College Tuition ($500 per year)

• Unemployment pay for 1 year ($20 a week)

• Guaranteed loans to purchase homes or businesses

• All of the Above

What does GDP stand for?

• Gross National Product

• Gradual Domestic Product

• Gross Domestic Product

• Gross Domestic Purchase

What is used to measure the overall value of a countries economy?

• GDP

• Inflation

• Unemployment Rate

• HDI

Between 1946 - 1959 the GDP of the United States did what?

• Shrunk

• Stayed the Same

• Grew

Why did the United States GDP grow during the post WWII Era?

• U.S. international trade DECREASED

• Americans had money and wanted to spend it

• U.S. cut government spending

• Gold Rush

The G.I. Bill of Rights made it possible for _________.

• African Americans to serve in combat positions
• Soldiers to take short leaves from fighting 
• Veterans to attend college for free
• Enlisted men to receive officer training

The population increase known as the “baby boom” began in the late 1940s. 

• true
• false