The 1950s

1. paid tuition for servicemen to get college degree

• Baby Boom

• Consumerism

• GI Bill of Rights

• Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance

birth rate soared as soldiers returned home;baby

born every 7 seconds in U.S

• White Collar

• Baby Boom

• GI Bill of Rights

• Baby Bash

Gender Roles of Women (3)

• cook

• clean

• take care of children and husband

• work in a factory

Gender Roles of Men (3)

• provide for the family

• head of household figure

• protector

• make meals

Televison Shows (3)

• Howdy Doody

• I Love Lucy

• Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet

• Yellowstone

What is a movie from the 1950s

• Psycho
• The Godfather
• Waterboy

• Casablanca

Who are actor/actresses from the 1950s (4)

• Marlon Brando

• James Dean

• Marilyn Monroe

• Humphrey Bogart

• Brad Pitt

1. Eisenhower develops interstate highway system; the largest public works program in American history

• Beat Movement

• Interstate Funded Act

• Transportation Act

• Interstate and Highway Act

1. invented polio vaccine

• Dr. Edward Jenner
• Dr. Albert Sabin
• Dr. Louis Pasteur
• Dr. Jonas Salk

1. cities too crowded; moved outside of cities to rows of standardized

homes; lots of conformity; ex: Levittown

• Beat Movement

• Rural depopulation

• Urbanization

• Suburbs