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Definitions and context for significant terms and events in american history from the late 1940s to the early 1960s. Topics include the verona project, g.i. Bill, levittown, national organization of women, richard and katherine gordon, beatnik generation, jack kerouac, taft-hartley act, a. Philip randolph, kennedy's communism response, flexible response, cuban missile crisis, and kennedy assassination.
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an interception of soviet telegrams that proved that Julius and Ethel Rosenburg and Hiss were actually spies selling atomic secrets. Julis and Ethel had a mock trial and were convicted and killed in 1953 TERM 2
DEFINITION 2 Gave money to veterans to get an education Provided low interest mortgages and encouraged housing boom TERM 3
DEFINITION 3 Levittown is the name of some large suburban developments created in the United States of America by William Levitt and his company Levitt & Sons: Replaced ethnic neighborhoods Assimiation TERM 4
DEFINITION 4 1965 1. Encouraged rights for women 2. Prevented companies from playing maternity leave (airline Stewardess' "needed" to quit by 25) 3. Low pay is easier to accomplish TERM 5
DEFINITION 5 Wrote book: The Split Level trap 1. called Suburbia "disturbia" 2. Called out youth because they are growing eith too much pressure to conform 3. this leads to breakdown of values
DEFINITION 7 Wrote: The Naked Lunch talked about how drugs were important to unlocking the mysteries TERM 8
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DEFINITION 9 1956 1. Set up a 41,000 mile system of highways 2. Aided in transportation of military goods 3. Encouraged Consumption
DEFINITION 10 Peace Corps: sent undercover CIA agents in with normals Alliance for progress: 1. Friendly Relations with Latin America