An American History

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982 ★ CHAPTER 24 An Affluent Society


Levittown (p. 944)
baby boom (p. 949)
urban renewal (p. 951)
“In God We Trust” (p. 953)
interstate highway system (p. 959)
Sputnik (p. 960)
National Defense Education Act
(p. 960)
social contract (p. 960)
massive retaliation (p. 961)
Geneva Accords (p. 964)

the Beats (p. 967)
League of United Latin American
Citizens (p. 972)
Brown v. Board of Education
(p. 972)
Montgomery bus boycott (p. 974)
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference (p. 977)
Southern Manifesto (p. 977)
missile gap (p. 979)
military-industrial complex (p. 980)

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