Ch. 37 Study Guide: The Cold War Begins

15. An average of 30 million people after 1945 changed residence each year. 16. This necessitated a new type of literature because of the families moving away from each other and not easily sustaining friendship. 17. The Sunbelt is a 15-state area covering from VA through FL, and TX to AZ and CA. In 1963, CA became the most populous state 18. The South and South West were the post-war new frontiers because of jobs, better climate, and lower taxes. 19. Huge military installations were in this region because the congressmen secured those installations for their districts. 20. The Federal Government fostered migration to the suburbs especially by whites, by making chances better for whites to have home ownership which meant that they would buy goods such as cars and other stuff to make their home nicer. Also the whites started to move out was the migration of blacks into the city looking for jobs. 21. The Levitt brothers created "Levitt town" on New York's Long Island in the 1940's, builders revolutionized the techniques of home construction. 22. Government policies aggravated the patterns of racial segregation that emerged with "white flight" by the FHA administrators, citing the risk of making loans to blacks, often refused them mortgages for private home purchases. now to Alexis's blog