Homework Check 14.2

Match the following

• Jonas Salk

• period from 1945 to 1961 during which over 65 million children were born in the Unites States.

• Levittown

• beat writer who published On the Road in 1957

• generation gap

• cultural separation between children and their parents

• Jack Kerouac

• developed an injectable polio vaccine

• baby boom

• one of the earliest suburbs, located 10 miles east of New York City

For Americans, the 1950s was a decade of incredible

• prosperity.

• scarcity.

• overconfidence.

• turmoil.

Large U.S. corporations competed with each other as the postwar economy grew, and some expanded oversees to become

• white-collar companies.

• franchises.

• multinational corporations.

• chain companies.

Which trends of the 1950s did books such as The Organization Man and The lonely Crowd criticize?

• racism

• technology

• affluence

• conformity

One of the most popular shows ever to air on television was a situation comedy from the 1950s called

• I Love Lucy.

• Dragnet.

• The Lone Ranger.

• The $64,000 Question.

Rock 'n' roll music, which became popular with American teenagers in the 1950s, grew out of the sounds of what other form of music?

• rhythm and blues

• jazz

• ragtime

• swing