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Title

Chapter 26: Postwar Confidence and Anxiety

Description

contains vocab from chapter 26

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Subject

History

Level

11th Grade

Created

12/08/2010

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Term

GI Bill of Rights

Definition

eased the return of WWII veterans by providing education and employment aid

Term

Interstate Highway Act

Definition

1956 law that authorized the spending of $32 billion to build 41,000 miles of highway

Term

Sunbelt

Definition

name given to the region of states in the South and the Southwest

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Levitown

Definition

The original suburb put in place to give returning vets a more affordable way to live

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Beatnik

Definition

small group of writers and artists in the 1950s and the early 1960s who were critical of American Society