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APUSH Period 8: Chapter 26 - Statistics
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| Satellite launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, causes U.S. to kick into high gear over fears that the USSR is surpassing the U.S. in technology | Sputnik | 88%
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| Many people have children at the same time, peaked in 1957 and saw the population explode in number | Baby Boom | 82%
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| U.S. president (#34), spoke on the military-industrial complex at his final address to the nation. Pushed Congress to give extra money for education after USSR beats America to space | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 47%
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| Reverend who spread affirmations of faith, became the nation's lead Evangelical preacher after his revivals and crusades were viewed by hundreds of thousands of people | Billy Graham | 35%
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| Symbolic contest between the U.S. and USSR over which country had a better standard of living | Kitchen Debate | 29%
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| Southern and southwestern states, saw most of suburban living | Sunbelt | 29%
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| Revolutionized suburban housing, applied mass-production techniques, made homes extremely quickly | William J. Levitt | 24%
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| A group of young white writers and poets in San Francisco, loved jazz and hated middle-class materialism | Beats | 18%
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| Stabilized currencies and provided a predictable monetary environment for trade, U.S. dollar serves as the benchmark | International Monetary Fund | 12%
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| Employed 3.5 million Americans in 1961, rooted in business-government partnerships post-WWII, always ready for war after WWII ended | Military-Industrial Complex | 12%
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| Cultural phenomenon, term used for youth in 1950s America | Teenager | 12%
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| Provided loans for reconstruction of war-torn Europe and newly independent third-world countries | World Bank | 12%
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| Location of an international conference that created important post-war financial organizations | Bretton Woods | 6%
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| 1958, funneled billions into American universities after USSR launches the first satellite | National Defense Education Act | 6%
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| Helped former soldiers purchase homes without a down payment, sparked a boom in construction, created jobs, and lifted consumer spending | Veterans Administration | 6%
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| Became a major factor in U.S. economic life, nation's major industrial corporations now operate with union contracts | Collective Bargaining | 0%
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| Wrote Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care, many mothers find his new approach to raising the youth liberating | Dr. Benjamin Spock | 0%
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| Influential trumpeter who developed a "cool" variation of bebop music | Miles Davis | 0%
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| 1956, authorized $26 billion to be spent on a nationally integrated highway system, needed as there were more cars and concerns about evacuation in case of a nuclear attack | National Interstate and Defense HIghway Act | 0%
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