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Chapter 26: Postwar Confidence and Anxiety
contains vocab from chapter 26
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History
11th Grade
12/08/2010

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GI Bill of Rights
Definition
eased the return of WWII veterans by providing education and employment aid
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Interstate Highway Act
Definition
1956 law that authorized the spending of $32 billion to build 41,000 miles of highway
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Sunbelt
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name given to the region of states in the South and the Southwest
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Levitown
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The original suburb put in place to give returning vets a more affordable way to live
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Beatnik
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small group of writers and artists in the 1950s and the early 1960s who were critical of American Society
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