US HISTORY UNIT 20 FLASHCARD

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As a result of the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act of 1956, the United States experienced

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increased suburban growth

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The baby boom after World War II led directly to

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an increased demand for housing

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What was the result of the event described in this passage? "Desperate for a cure, some 100,000,000 people – nearly two-thirds of the population in the early 1950s – contributed to the March of Dimes, the major organization sponsoring research against the polio disease. Still, the scourge persisted. An epidemic in 1950 afflicted nearly 32,000 children; another in 1952 affected nearly 58,000 and killed 1,400."

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Researcher Jonas Salk successfully created a polio vaccine

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B.B. King is best known for playing and popularizing what musical style?

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Blues

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Sun Studios in Memphis Tennessee is known as the birth place of what?

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Rock n Roll

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What do these charts say about America in the 1950s?

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More Americans were finding economic prosperity following World War II

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Based on this excerpt, how did the ideas in this excerpt influence the American economy in the 1950s?

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Rapid growth of fast food restaurants

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The reunion of husbands and wives after the war, decreasing marriage age, desirability of large families, confidence in continued economic prosperity, and advances in medicine. Question: These factors all contributed to what post World War II phenomenon?

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Baby Boom

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This poem is criticizing what aspect of the 1950s?

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Growth of the suburbs

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This map shows school segregation by state in the 1950s. What does it say about American society during this time period?

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Southern states were far more segregated