post war american society and onwards with book 3

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true or false the economy improved ?
true
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when did for die ?
1945
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who replaced for ?
harry s truman
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what was trumans main focus ?
his main focus was about fairer society so he wanted to focus on poverty and the rights of african americans
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what was the american dream ?
if you work hard you will succeed
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what did most people have in the american dream?
nice house (white picket fence ) // financial stability // nuclear family (family of 4 with a dog) // at least one car ( preferably 2) // new domestic goods
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how many vechiles were there by 1956?
75 million
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what america experience after the world war 2 ?
a baby boom that saw a 40% increase in population
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by 1952 what percentage of goods were supplied by america ?
65%
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what did they do to get people to but the new cars
for the old cars the old parts would be hard to maintain so they would force them in to getting a new car .
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what was the new motto scheme to getting people to buy things ?
buy now pay later
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what was this called ?
consummerism
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how many people were still living in poverty (%)
25 percent
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who did not benefit and why ?
in the 1960s 80% of over 65 had an income of less that $1000 the average factory earner was $4000
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how much did wages of women fall by during the 1950s
53%
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what did teenager have more of ?
leisure time and money
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what was the average weekly spend by a teenager?
$10-15 a week as apossed to $1-2 in the 1940s
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how much did the percentage change of people owning a tv
it went from 0.4% of households having a to 83.2%
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what did senator joseph mccarthy claim he had in a speech ?
he had a list offer 200 communists in the state department
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what was found in the government /
two spies
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what made america even more scared of communism
when china fell to communism they thought all countries would then focing america to become communist
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what years did the civil rights movement start and end ?
1940s to the 1960s
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what year was the brown v board of education
1954
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what was this ?
this was where a young girl had to walk dangerous paths tons school everyday just to get to school and nearly died then they took it to court and won the case and the NAACP was set up .
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what did this do for the african americans ?
it created a new feeling of inferiority for the african americans then integrated school were now being ordered to set up and every education board was forced to bring segregation to an ed .
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what did this ?
this gained media attention and helped with integrated schools .
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what was the disadvantage of this?
by 1956 no black child was attending any school with white children because even though they had integrated schools the attitude of the white did not change and they would of made schools for them horrible to go to and would still treat them very bad
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when was the case of emmet till ?
1955
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what was the case of emmet till?
where this young black boy apparently played a prank on a white lady and then her husband and brother found him and kidnapped him
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what did they do to emmet till?
they kidnapped him, tortured him and then shot him in the head and threw him in the river.
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how old was emmet till ?
14 years old
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what happened after this ?
his body was found and his mum decided to have an open casket so people could see what had happened to him and how they were being treated.
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what happened at court ?
the all white jury deliberated for less than an hour and the verdict was that they were not guilty
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what happened because of this descion ?
people around the country were outraged and this started to help with white people sympathising with african americans as it gained media attention
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what year was the montgomery bus boycott ?
1955-56
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what was the montgomery bus boycott ?
african americans always had to give up their seats for white people until one day a women caked rosa parks refused to give up her seat she was arrested and convicted of breaking the law ?
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was rosa parks the first women to do this?
no a teenager did this first and she was inspired by her but the NAACP didn't use her case to standup in court and she was rebellious teenager and they wouldn't have been taken seriously .
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what happened because of this ?
they boyott the buses and on the first day the busses were empty as people were turning up to martin lithe rings speech.
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how many people turned up to martin luther kings speech ?
10,000-15,000
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how much did the bus company loose of its income ?
65%
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what did this lead to ?
the desegregation of busses but people weren't happy so many buses were attacked they were shot at and set on fire.
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when was the little rock ?
1957
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what was the little rock ?
9 children were organised to go to an intergrate school he supreme court ordered this
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what did the president do ?
he intervened and made sure that they were escorted into the school safety
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what did this do
gained media attention
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