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| discovered and invented the first polio vaccine |
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| develops oral polio vaccine |
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| 3,548,000 babies born in 1950, everyone wants a happy suburban life |
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| bill that provides college funds to wwii vets |
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A mass-produced suburban housing development on Long Island, New York, the first Levittown came to symbolize post–World War II suburbanization
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| provided twenty-six billion dollars to build interstate highways, linking the United States' major cities |
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| concert promoter of people like Janice Joplin |
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| an American pediatrician whose book Baby and Child Care, published in 1946, is one of the biggest best-sellers of all time. Its revolutionary message to mothers was that "you know more than you think you do, encourages parents to be affectionate and flexible to their kids |
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| Moondog, American disc-jockey, internationally known for promoting African-American rhythm and blues music on the radio in the United States and Europe under the name of rock and roll |
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| youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebob) |
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| Canadian-American beatnik author |
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| a United States federal law that monitors the activities and power of labor unions |
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| recommended that all Americans have health insurance, that the minimum wage (the lowest amount of money per hour that someone can be paid) be increased, and that, by law, all Americans be guaranteed equal rights |
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| a shortlived segregationist, socially conservative political party, the perfect southern state of life |
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| 1948 dixiecrat presidential canidate |
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| a famously inaccurate banner headline on the front page of the Chicago Tribune on November 3, 1948, the day after incumbent United States President Harry S. Truman beat Republican challenger and Governor of New York Thomas E. Dewey in the 1948 presidential election in an upset victory |
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| limit on presidential term |
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| Eisenhower vs. Nixon Eisenhower win!!! |
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| Fund speech was an address made by Richard Nixon, the junior United States Senator from California and Republican vice presidential candidate,had been accused of improprieties relating to a fund established by his backers to reimburse him for his political expenses. With his place on the Republican ticket in doubt, he flew to Los Angeles and delivered a half-hour television address in which he defended himself, attacked his opponents, and urged the audience to contact the Republican National Committee (RNC) to tell it whether he should remain on the ticket. During the speech, he stated that regardless of what anyone said, he intended to keep one gift: a black-and-white dog, named Checkers by the Nixon children, |
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