1. The decade after the Second World War was characterized by all of the following EXCEPT
a. a population explosion known as the "baby boom"
b. explosive growth in television ownership
C. widespread integration of neighborhoods and public schools
d. rapid and extensive suburbanization
e. expansive growth in automobile ownership rates.

1. The decade after the Second World War was NOT characterized by

C. widespread integration of neighborhoods and public schools

Explanation:

The widespread integration refereed to in this line is the integration of schools and other institutions that happened in the 1960s which is the decade after the one being discussed here.

The integration that is being talked about here was the integration of the white schools with the black people in which the segregation of the black people from the white was outlawed and the blacks were allowed to study with the white kids in their schools.

because mexico wanted to choose a centralized location