Postwar America

By the end of the decade, what percentage of Americans owned their own home?

• 25%

• 50%

• 55%

• 60%

By 1959 almost ____ million homes had television sets.

The G.I. Bill of Rights gave veterans ______ for education, home loans, and other benefits.

• candy

• suburb

• funds

• permission

What year was the UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer) introduced in?

• 1915

• 1940

• 1951`

• 1970

People who have fought in the war.

• baby boom

• veteran

• benefit

• decade

About how many babies were born in the years 1945 to 1964?

• about 30 million

• about 400,000

• about 76 million

• about 100,000

A community outside of a city is a _______.

• city

• state

• country

• suburb

A wave of births after World War II.

• credit card

• baby boom

• veteran

• suburb

What disease did the vaccine introducded in 1955 prevent?

• rabies

• chicken pox

• influenza

• polio

A _______ _____ lets a user charge goods and services and pay for them later.