POSTWAR AMERICA
GOVERNMENT
DAILY LIFE
ECONOMY
Gi Bill of Rights
In 1956, Congress passed the Federal-Aid Highway Act. This act called for a network of high-speed roads linking the nation. It set aside $41 billion to build 40,000 miles of highway
Inflation: a rise in prices and decrease in the value of money
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By 1960, 9 out of 10 households had at least 1 television. Television brought news and entertainment into people’s homes.
productivity: the average output per worker
Fair Deal: President Truman's reforms that extended liberal policies and included a higher minimum wage, expanded Social Security, and loans for low-cost housing
standard of living: a measurement that determines how well people live based on the amount of goods, services, and leisure time people have
suburb: a residential area on the outskirts of a city
Teenager was a word first used in the 1950s to describe someone between 13 and 19 years
baby boom : a large increase in birthrate from the late 1940s through the early 1960s
Sunbelt
the region stretching across the southern rim of the country
These grew faster than cities meaning that people liked these areas better than the cities.
Americans also flocked to the Sunbelt, a region stretching across the southern rim of the country.
As prices would go up the value of what ever currency you were using would decrease.
New words were now being used as Teenager
Many GIs received loans to pay for college or a new home.
President Truman and his Democratic party seemed doomed to defeat. Labor strikes and soaring prices had already helped Republicans win a majority in both the House and the Senate for the first time since the 1920s. Among Democrats, unhappy liberals and conserva
suburb: a residential area on the outskirts of a city This grew 40 times larger