Baby Boom Timeline

By Jiahua Liu

  • Start Of the Baby Boom

    The Beging of the Baby Boom.

  • GI Bill of Rights

    Gave military Veterans money for college and loans on housing.
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    Move to the suburbs

  • Levittown New York Established

    An unincorporated community of southeast New York on western Long Island. It was the first of several low-cost, suburban housing developments built by Levitt and Sons following World War II.

  • Start of Movie Theater closures

  • Rise of Fallout Shelters

    A fallout shelter is used to sheild people form atomic bombs, and radiation.

  • Start of the Vietnam War

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    Vietnam War

  • Rosa Parks Montgomonterry Bus Boycott.

    One of the many steps to end racial seggregation in the south.

  • Affirmative action

    Employers are not allowed to discriminate any employee or applicant due to race, color, creed, or National orgin.

  • Martin Luther King's March On Washington

    This event created the civil rights act.

  • End of the Vietnam War

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    Payback Years

    Aids is discovered in 1983.