Post War America
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- 4. an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961.
- 7. an outlying district of a city, especially a residential one.
- 9. a set of proposals put forward by U.S. President Harry S. Truman to Congress in 1945
- 13. In economics and industrial design, planned obsolescence is a policy of planning or designing a product with an artificially limited useful life
- 15. was the 37th president of the United States
- 16. the protection or promotion of the interests of consumers.
- 17. name of several large suburban housing developments created in the United States by William J. Levitt
- 18. an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform.
- 21. An enthusiasm for motor vehicles and motoring.
- 22. is a bestselling book by William H. Whyte, originally published by Simon & Schuster in 1956
- 23. a society in which the material benefits of prosperity are widely available.
- 24. American pediatrician and left-wing political activist whose book Baby and Child Care is one of the best-selling books of the twentieth century
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- 1. use a numbering scheme in which primary Interstates are assigned one- or two-digit numbers
- 2. informs the development of national civil rights policy and enhances enforcement of federal civil rights laws.
- 3. The States' Rights Democratic Party was a short-lived segregationist political party in the United States, active primarily in the South.
- 5. 1946 – 1964
- 6. governmental economy and decentralization of Federal projects through cooperation with State and local governments as well as private enterprise.
- 8. method of distributing products or services involving a franchisor
- 10. American virologist and medical researcher who developed one of the first successful polio vaccines
- 11. a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools
- 12. compliance with standards, rules, or laws.
- 14. the national ethos of the United States, a set of ideals including representative democracy, rights, liberty, and equality
- 19. multi-industry company – i.e., a combination of multiple business entities operating in entirely different industries under one corporate group,
- 20. provides educational assistance to servicemembers, veterans, and their dependents.