Postwar

Rights won by workers were diminished in the postwar era. Over Truman's veto, Congress passed this law which outlawed closed shops (places of businesses that would only employ union members).

• Taft-Hartley Act

• Interstate Highway Act

• Termination Policy

• Urban Renewal

With emerging suburbs (thanks in part to the GI Bill of Rights) the country created an extensive highway system that would also strengthen national defense. The system was more costly than any New Deal programs and would lead to Americans taking road trip getaways

• Interstate Highway Act

• International Highway Act

• Income Highway Act

• Innocent Highway Act

Many Americans had savings to spend following WWII and good paying jobs, this led toa huge increase in purchasing, and sometimes on credit

• Consumerism

• Mutually Assured Destruction

• Containment

• Iron Curtain

As middle class Americans moved to the suburbs, thus taking their tax money and political representation, cities began to decline, fall into disrepair and have increasing violence. Cities across the country set out to implement projects and developments that would draw people to downtown areas. This frequently failed and resulted in displaced poor into overcrowded neighborhoods.

• Urban Renewal

• Termination Policy

• Rural Renew

• Productivity Policy

The keep communism within the countries where it already is present

• Containment

• Productivity

• Limited War

• Consumerism

William J. Levitt contributed to the growth of the suburbs by

• Mass-producing houses

• Criticizing urban life

• Designing interstate highways   

• Providing low-interest mortgage loans

This planned communities sprang up after WWII. They were usually located outside major market cities; families would commute to work with their new luxury cars and homes were "cookie cutter" and affordable

• Suburbs

• Inner City

• Ultraburbs

• Shopping Malls

Examine the cartoon. What aspect of American society in the 1950s was the cartoonist making?

• high culture

• stay-at-home moms

• suburban conformity

• planned obsolescence

After the war, the ___?___ replaced radio and movies as the main entertainment for American families.

• television

• YouTube

• internet

• community swimming pool

What caused the Baby Boom, Interstate Highways, the growth of the Middle Class, and the rise of Suburbs.

• An increase in immigration

• A decrease in trade

• 1950S economic prosperity

• A reduction (decrease) in peacetime spending