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Essay Prep. Possible Themes to Discuss. Affluence & post-war economic boom Consumerism Baby Boom – station wagon Suburban living Automania – car centered world Leisure Time. Essay Prep. Possible Themes to Discuss. Affluence & post-war economic boom Consumerism

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  1. Essay Prep Possible Themes to Discuss Affluence & post-war economic boom Consumerism Baby Boom – station wagon Suburban living Automania– car centered world Leisure Time
  2. Essay Prep Possible Themes to Discuss Affluence & post-war economic boom Consumerism Rise of Television- conformity and stereotypes (women, race) Leisure Time Suburban living Baby Boom –
  3. Essay Prep Possible Themes to Discuss Affluence & post-war economic boom Consumerism Suburban living Baby Boom – caring for your family when you die Automania – car centered world Cult of Domesticity – Gender Roles
  4. Truman or Eisenhower Surprising upset victory
  5. Truman or Eisenhower Nixon was his running mate
  6. Truman or Eisenhower Distributed the Salk vaccine
  7. Truman or Eisenhower Integrated the Armed Forces
  8. Truman or Eisenhower Threatened to draft striking workers
  9. Truman or Eisenhower Interstate Highway Act
  10. Truman or Eisenhower Fired MacArthur
  11. Truman or Eisenhower Sent paratroopers to protect the Little Rock 9
  12. Truman or Eisenhower Ran against Dixiecrat, Strom Thurmond who didn’t like his racial policies
  13. Truman or Eisenhower In the White House when the Korean War ends
  14. Truman or Eisenhower In the White House when McCarthy falls apart on TV
  15. Truman or Eisenhower Won the presidency through a 30,000 mile whistle stop campaign (by train)
  16. True - False Middle class women tended to drop their jobs upon marriage.
  17. True - False Congress initiated the integration of the Armed Forces.
  18. True - False New found teenage buying power helped usher in the age of Rock ‘n Roll.
  19. True - False Tenafly High School is currently in its third building of its existence as an institution.
  20. True - False American Express issued the first credit card in US history.
  21. True - False The GI Bill of Rights included one year of unemployment pay to help veterans adjust to life back in the States.
  22. True - False Beatniks tended to live in Greenwich Village, NYC and other old sections of US cities.
  23. True - False Most 1950s television shows were set in cities.
  24. True - False Nixon’s “Checker’s Speech” helped clear his name of illegal campaign funding.
  25. True - False A conservative is someone who embraces change and new ways of living.
  26. True - False The rise of the suburbs negatively impacted US cities.
  27. True - False The book The Organization Man was about innovation coming out of US conglomerates.
  28. True - False Planned obselesence meant that companies purposely made products that had a limited lifetime so that consumers would purchase again soon.
  29. True - False Blacks’ music was copied without compensation by white artists.
  30. General Questions What piece of legislation enabled veterans and their families to move into the middle class?
  31. General Questions What is the name for the post-war population explosion?
  32. General Questions Who wrote this book?
  33. General Questions Who is the man who built their houses?
  34. General Questions What are these people doing?
  35. General Questions Name 3 genres of music that were blended to form rock ‘n’ roll in the 1950s.
  36. General Questions Who attached the name “rock ‘n’ roll” to the music he was playing on the radio?
  37. General Questions What was the best TV show on which to appear to get national exposure?
  38. General Questions Who won the election of 1948?
  39. General Questions Who won the election of 1956?
  40. General Questions Provide 3 attributes of a family that lived in Levittown, Long Island.
  41. General Questions Who was the baby doctor?
  42. General Questions Who was the “Henry Ford” of housing?
  43. General Questions What was The Other America about?
  44. General Questions Who was the polio doctor?
  45. General Questions Who was the king of Rock and Roll?
  46. General Questions Who wrote the poem “America”?
  47. General Questions What franchise did Ray Kroc introduce to this country?
  48. General Questions General Foods built the first office park in what Westchester County city?
  49. General Questions What was the first hotel franchise?
  50. General Questions Who wrote the poem “America”?
  51. General Questions Who wrote the poem “America”?
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