Life in America After WWII

What is the GI Bills of Rights

• Veterans fighting the Government for more money

• President babying the people

• German laws to control the country

• Laws helping veterans who were returning from the war

What did the GI Bill of Rights provide for veterans?

• Free Healthcare

• Access to low-cost mortgages and free college education

• Guarantied Employment

• Lifetime Finacial support

What was unique about Levittown

• Mass produced housing

• Symbol of war

• Racially diverse

• Urban Lifestyle

Which factor directly contributed to the post–World War II development of the Suburb shown in the picture?

• rise in the birth rate

•  decrease in school construction

•  decline in the availability of home loans

• increase in the number of women in the labor force

Returning from WWII, soldiers in mass got married and started families. This refers to the ___________ of the 1950's.

• Levittown

• Baby Boom

• National Defense Education Act

• G.I. Bill

Why didn't William Levitt want to sell to African Americans?

• Because he thought the values of the home would drop drastically

• Because he wasn't allowed to by law

• Because they weren't veterans