U.S. HISTORY
Week 8 - Cold War Begins- Ch 14 –sections 1-2
Consumer Spending
GI Bill
What prevented a recession after WWII
and contributed to economic growth?
What is the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act that provides generous loans?
Taft-Hartley Law
Supporters
stated:
 held irresponsible
unions in check
Closed Shop
Opponents:
 Labor leaders
 Slave Labor Law
 insisted that it
erased many of
the gains that
unions had made
since 1933
 Vetoed by Truman
Outlawed:
 Closed Shops
 Union shops
 Featherbedding
What did the conservative Congress in 1947 propose
to quickly set out to curb the power of organized labor?
What is the practice of forcing business owners to hire only union members?
Right-To-Work Laws
Do-Nothing Congress
Union shops –
Featherbedding -
Shops in which
new workers are
required to join
the union
Practice of limiting
work output in
order to create
more jobs
What was the name of the Republican Congress that refused
to pass President Truman’s legislative agendas before the 1948
elections?
What outlaws union shops and featherbedding?
President Dwight Eisenhower
Fair Deal
Which president considered his political beliefs as the middle of the
road and tried to balance activism and economic conservatism?
What name did President Truman use
to set his program apart from the New Deal?
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Checkers speech
Federal Highway Act (1956)
“The kids love the dog,
[and] regardless about
what they say about it,
we’re going to keep it
”
What was the name of a speech that Nixon made
about getting business gifts and his cocker spaniel?
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What was the largest public works program in American history?
Spread of Wealth
Franchises
What led to a tripling of the average income of
American families and significant increase in home ownership?
What did the 1950s see a rise of with regards to a person who
owns and runs one or several stores of a chain operation?
Baby Boom
Jonas Salk
A child born every
7 seconds
65 million born
What is the period known for its explosion
after World War II from 1945 to 1961?
Who developed an injectable vaccine that prevented polio?
1. Which president advocated the passage of the Federal Highway Act in 1956?
Ike – President Dwight Eisenhower
2. What caused many Americans to move to the suburbs in the 1950s?
They wanted to escape urban crime and make a better life for their families. They had
automobiles to transport them to and from work. It was also very affordable.
3. Name three specific examples of technological breakthroughs in the 1950s?
1.
Transistors, early computers 2. Medical drugs, antibiotics, surgical techniques, polio vaccine
3. Satellites, Commercial planes
Week 8 of 10.
The 8 quiz towards your midterm.
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