ap us history 1940s/1950s last remaining domestic details (and a couple foreign details)
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AP US History1940s/1950s
Last remaining domestic details(and a couple foreign details)
Servicemen’s readjustment Act, 1944 (GI Bill)
Taft-Hartley Act, 1947
“Dewey Defeats Truman”—NOT!
Eisenhower as president, 1952-1961
Military-industrial complex
SEATO (1954)
Operation Wetback, 1954
“Indian New Deal”--further implementation
Suez Canal crisis (1956)
Alaska and Hawaii become states (1959)
OPEC (1960)
Women’s roles and “Leave it to Beaver”
Baby boom
Levittowns, suburbanization/white flight
Public housing, white flight
Television, etc.
Organization man, gray flannel suit
conformity
Playboy Magazine, McDonalds (1950s)
Sunbelt
Rustbelt
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