Key Terms Baby Boom A marked increase in the birthrate after WWII On average a baby was born every 10 seconds Suburbs Residential area on the outskirts of a city or town These grew dramatically after WWII as more people wanted to settle down with their families away from large cities Eno ID: 618123
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Unit 12: Post War America
Key Terms Slide2
Baby Boom
A marked increase in the birthrate after WWII. On average, a baby was born every 10 seconds. Slide3
Suburbs
Residential area on the outskirts of a city or town. These grew dramatically after WWII as more people wanted to settle down with their families away from large cities. Enormous subdivisions like Levittown started popping up across the country. Slide4
Interstate Highway System
Primarily the brainchild of President Eisenhower; this is a network of major highways that span the country from coast to coast & allows for ease of travel across the United States. Slide5
Jim Crow L
aws
State laws that discriminated against African Americans; examples included segregated facilities, prohibiting interracial marriage, etc. Slide6
Civil Rights Act
Passed by President Johnson in 1964; it outlawed major forms of discrimination in the US based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Slide7
Voting Rights Act
Passed in 1965 & outlawed voting practices such as poll taxes and literacy tests which were designed to limit voting rights of African Americans.
Signing of the Voting Rights ActSlide8
Cold War
A conflict between the US & Soviet Union that began shortly after WWII and lasted until the fall of Berlin
W
all in 1989. Slide9
Arms Race
A competition between the US & Soviet Union in the production of nuclear weapons following WWII. Slide10
Space Race
A competition between the us & Soviet Union In the 1950s to capture various “firsts” in space exploration (first man to orbit the Earth, first man on the moon, etc.) Slide11
Vietcong
The name of the communist North Vietnamese forces that the US fought against in the Vietnam War. They were extremely adept at guerilla fighting tactics. Slide12
Demilitarized Zone
A strip of land that separates North & South Korea in which military forces are forbidden. It remains uninhabited today. Slide13
Agent Orange
A chemical defoliant used to destroy the jungle canopy of Vietnam to better locate the Vietcong.