UP:SS10.6.10

Vocabulary

  • economic expansion
  • economic contraction
  • service economy
  • "boom and bust"
  • economic bubbles
  • GI Bill of Rights of 1944
  • Medicare
  • Medicaid
  • Head Start programs
  • Children's Health Insurance Program
  • manufacturing
  • standard of living
  • globalization
  • outsourcing
  • insourcing
  • environmental protection
  • immigration

Knowledge

Students know:
  • The cycles of economic expansion and contraction and the impact these cycles had on American society after WWII.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Analyze and explain policies and programs that economically impacted society since World War II.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • There are cycles of economic expansion and contraction and this has had an impact on American society after WWII.
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