The American Dream

1 What were some causes for the baby boom?

As soldiers returned from World War II and settled into family life, they contributed to an unprecedented population explosion

2 What did Americans have to do in order to support all the new babies being born?

3 How did roles of women changed in the 1950’s?

the role of homemaker and mother was glorified in popular magazines, movies, and TV programs

4 What changes allowed the American car explosion to occur?

The American Teen

1 How did the lives of teenagers change after TGD and WWII?
Teenagers were recognized as an importan and unique stage between chilhood and adulthood

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2 What is "white fight"? Was it good for society?
Millions of middle-class white  Americans left the cities for the suburbs, taking wih the precious economic resources and isolating themselfes from other races

3 What did many Mexicans immigrate the U.S. before the 1950's?
Durant the war there was a shartage of agriculture labors so the us make a program in which Mexican hire hands, were allowed into the United States to harvest corp

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Pop Culture 1950's



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1 What media exploded in the 50's, and how did business respond to this explosion?

In the 1948 the television started to be in American homes so the businesses started to make comercials and making TV guides and TV dinner

2 Why did critics not like television?
That it effects on children and steretypical portrayal of women and minorities




3 What's so ironic about rock and roll music in the 1950's?
It was revelios and was popular among the young people, but the adults didn't like it and said it was from the devil, even when Elvis Presley started in a church

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Truman Labor Policies



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1. What were some of the significant challenges Pres. Truman faced after WWII?

Finding jobs for the people and to bring stability and prosperity to all Americans

2. How did Truman try to help returning G.I.s get jobs after WWII, and how effective was he? Explain your opinion.

He try to control the price of some products but the owner were mad so he gave it back, then he did a minimum wage. I think he didn't do anything good for the country because everybody hated him and didn't want him.



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Postwar America 1950's

1 What was the U.S. economy like during WWII?
It was better than the great depression but people couldn't have all they wanted

2 How did the American economy transform after the Great Depression and WWII?
People started to get more jobs
3Why would s compsny like Google not do well in the 50's?
Because the people in that time didn't want creative thinkers, rebels, or anyone who would rock the corporate boat

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas



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Bruno moved with his family so his father could be closer to the Nazi death camps. At first only father knew the real reason for moving to the country. Why do you think father was so secretive about why the family moved?

Because he didn't want to tell them what he do to the Jews from the camp

Bruno was taught the think of Jews in a certain way. What was Bruno taught about Jews

That they were the source of all evil and that they are the reason that they lost during WWI

When Bruno fell from the swing a Jewish man helped him. Why was this event significant to Bruno’s mother’s thinking of Jewish people?

Because she taught that he would had never help because he was Jews, but she saw that he wasnt a evil person, but instead a good person 

Bruno’s father evolved and transformed from a loving father to what? Why?
The father evolved from a loving father to a father that didn't care about his family and only care for his work

Bruno evolved and transformed as well. What kind of boy was he at first, and what did he transform to?
He was a kind that only wanted to have fun and later for someone who care for anyone no mater who they where



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Describe your feelings about Bruno’s actions. Include descriptions of the scene and the choice(s) Bruno made, and what difference his actions made.



When he choose to help his friend to find his father but in the end died probably by a poison the dad may have change his mind about the things he was doing

Japanese Internment and Justice

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1 What does the word "internment" mean to you?
A imprisonment of a large group without trial

2 Why were Japanese-Americans interned in Manzanar?
Because the American said that any Japanese is a enemy to the U.S. during the war, so the Japanese were call there because the American tough that there were a spy

3 Why where Japanese internment policies wrong?

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Because they didn't have right i the internment, but when they were outside the internment they had to survive by them self, because the U.S. took everything from the Japanese objects, money and house so they didn't have anywhere to go

The End of WWII

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1 Was Gen. MacArthur successful?
He was a successful general, he won the battle in the islands of Bataan, Leyte and Iwo Jima and make the leader of Japan to surrender.

2 Explain how successful the G.I. Bill was to returning soldiers:
It provided education and federal loan to buy there own house or farms to the veterans that went to the war so they could continue with there life.

3 Why were Mexicans in L.A. unfairly treated in 1942?
They were treated unfairly because of 11 sailors that said that they were attacked by Mexican-American in zoot suit, so the Mobs went into Mexican neighborhoods and grabbed any zoot suited they could find and beat them up.

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WWII in the Pacific

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1 Who promised to "return" to liberate the Philippines?
MacArthur, because president Roosevelt told him to leave Philippines, so when he was leaving he promise to return and so he did




2 What reasons did the president of the US use for using atomic bombs?

To avoid an invasion of Japan, bring an end to the war and save American lives

3 In 1942, why were the Allies under-strength to fight Japan?
because of the weather there was in there

4 Were American submarines effective in the Pacific?

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because they use them to sunk ships from the Japanese