Give Me Liberty! Chapter 24

How did the 1959 American National Exhibition showcase freedom in the United States?

Through a display of consumer goods

Between 1946 and 1960, the American gross national product

more than doubled, and wages increased.

True or False: The West did not benefit from the industries that sprang up from the Cold War.

false

During the 1950s, agricultural production

rose by 50 percent.

The center of gravity of American farming after World War II

Texas, Arizona, and California

After World War II, suburban growth

increased dramatically, especially in California.

William Levitt, with the help of the GI Bill, gave many Americans the opportunity to

buy a home

Television was used during the 1950s as

an effective advertising medium

Along with a home and a TV, what became part of the "standard consumer package" of the 1950s?

a car

After World War II, the automobile

altered the American landscape

After World War II, most working women

were concentrated in low-paying, nonunion jobs

During the 1950s, Americans

married younger and had more children than previous generations

Housing Segregation

African americans were often unable to receive financing for housing

Housing Act of 1949

reinforced the concentration of poverty in nonwhite urban neighborhoods

Between 1950 and 1970, suburbanization

hardened racial divisions in American life

Religious differences during the cold war

were absorbed within the notion of a common Judeo-Christian heritage.

Martin Luther King Jr.'s social and political philosophy rested on the idea(s) of

passive resistance and nonviolence, as practiced by Mahatma Gandhi.

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference

a coalition of black ministers and civil rights activists who fought for desegregation.

1960 presidential race,

John F. Kennedy became the Democratic candidate despite his Catholicism.

In his 1961 farewell address, President Eisenhower warned Americans about

the military-industrial complex.