Post World War II Domestic Policies / Issues

Match the following

• Housing Boom

• 
• Interstate Highway Act

• 
• GI Bill

• 
• Rock and Roll

• 
• Jonas Salk

• 

A baby ____ happened when soldiers returned home from WWII.

In the 1950's there was pressue to follow _________, or be the same as other people.

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) GI Bill

,

(b) Generation Gap

• parents and teenagers didn't understand each other

• free education

• values and morals changed

• housing loans

• help starting a business

• rock and roll was new & different music

President Truman's executive order 9981 integrated black and white ________ in the military so they would have fair and equal treatment.

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Executive Order 9066

,

(b) Executive Order 9981

• Japanese Americans went to internment camps

• President Roosevelt was afraid Japanese Americans would be spies

• President Truman understood the racism in the military

• during World War II

• President Truman wanted equality for all soldiers

• integrated black and white soldiers

Free university education, subsidized home loans, and other benefits were part of:

• The Social Security Act

• The G.I. Bill

• The National Defense Education Act

• The National Atlantic Treaty Organization

Reorder the following

• Soldiers came home and were helped by the GI Bill

• World War II ended with the atomic bombs dropped on Japan.

• Housing Boom

• Baby Boom

President ______ integrated the military.

What was passed by Congress shortly before the end of World War II that provided economic aid to veterans?

• The GI Bill

• Child Tax Credits

• The Airmen Bill

• The Doughboy Bill