US History Exit Review Chapter 20

Salinger, J.D.

"Catcher in the Rye" novel, adolescence

GI Bill

In 1944, the federal government made unprecedented educational opportunities available to World War II veterans in the GI Bill of Rights. It subsidized veterans so they could continue their formal education, learn new trades, or start new businesses.

Interstate Highway Act

In 1956, Congress began funding a limited-access interstate highway system that has enormously increased long-distance travel in America and shifted population away from the central city to the suburbs.

Truman, Harry S.

Missouri Senator Truman was elected vice president in 1944. He succeeded to the presidency when Roosevelt died in 1945 and was involved in many key decisions ending World War II and in the early Cold War. It was his decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan.

Presley, Elvis

Musician, rock and roll, "Love Me Tender," "Jailhouse Rock"

Suburb

Residential community surrounding a city

Rock and Roll

Rock and roll is a popular style of music started in the 1950s with roots in rhythm-and-blues, jazz, country, and folk music. Early musicians included Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, and Jerry Lee Lewis.

Dixiecrat

Southern Democrats who broke from the party in 1948 over the issue of civil rights and ran a presidential ticket as the States' Rights Democrats were referred to as dixiecrats.

Fair Deal

This was a program for expanded economic opportunity and civil rights proposed by President Truman in 1949.

Frieden, Betty

Wrote "The Feminine Mystique", depicted difficulty for middle class women; stifled by society; attacked cult of domesticity.