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M13 - The Postwar Boom

Authored by Evan Kritzberger

History

9th - 12th Grade

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M13 - The Postwar Boom
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 2 pts

A name given to the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act, a 1944 law that provided financial and educational benefits for World War II veterans.

GI Bill of Rights
suburb
Dixiecrat
Fair Deal
baby boom

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 2 pts

A residential town or community near a city.

GI Bill of Rights
suburb
Dixiecrat
Fair Deal
baby boom

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 2 pts

The southern delegates who, to protest President Truman’s civil rights policy, walked out of the 1948 Democratic National Convention and formed the States’ Rights Democratic Party.

GI Bill of Rights
suburb
Dixiecrat
Fair Deal
baby boom

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 2 pts

President Harry S. Truman’s economic program (extension FDR’s New Deal) which included measures to increase the minimum wage, to extend Social Security coverage, and to provide housing for low-income families.

GI Bill of Rights
suburb
Dixiecrat
Fair Deal
baby boom

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 2 pts

The sharp increase in the U.S. birthrate following World War II.

GI Bill of Rights
suburb
Dixiecrat
Fair Deal
baby boom

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 2 pts

A major corporation that owns a number of smaller companies in unrelated businesses.

conglomerate
franchise
consumerism
planned obsolescence
mass media

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 2 pts

A business that has bought the right to use a parent company’s name and methods, thus becoming one of a number of similar businesses in various locations.

conglomerate
franchise
consumerism
planned obsolescence
mass media

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