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2nd Great Migration
was the migration of more than 5 million African Americans the traveled to the west and the mid-west
they went to states such as California to get defense industry jobs in the cold war
it took place through out ww2 -
G.I. Bill
It was created to help veterans of WW2 provided many benefits to veterans.
veterans hospital provided for vocational rehabilitation, made low-interest mortgages available, and granted stipends covering tuition and living expenses for veterans attending college of trade schools nearly 9 million veterans received close to $4 billion from the GI bill with the GIG Bill there are less homeless veterans -
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Baby Boom
result of a strong postwar economy in which Americans felt confident they could support more kids
WW2 ends ,men come to start family's and carry on their names
caused economic prosperity
caused housing boom -
Marshall plan
the M plan was extremely successful it sped the economic recovery of western European and created good will towards the U.S. from 1948 to 1952
Europe economies grew at an unprecedented rate. -
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Rock and Roll
the popularity of rock and roll resulted in a powerful impact on society when jazz,blues and country was combined it created rock and roll -
AC
many of the central changes in our society afterward ww2 wouldn't have been possible if ac was not keeping homes and workplaces cool
everyone wanted ac down at the sunbelt including theater in Hollywood golden age
where ac it self was an attraction so when it was exploding around 1950s cars, homes, businesses had people migrating down south -
Friendship 7
John H. Glenn became third American in space in the 1st to orbit the earth when he successfully completed 3 orbits abroad the space capsule "friendship7".
Midst of the cold war tensions and amid the very real fear the soviet union was winning the race
Glenn accomplishment brought a sense of pried and relief to american sand made him a national hero -
moon speech pres.kennedy
" we choose to go to the moon", was delivered by jfk it was one of his earlier speech meant to persuade to american people to support the national effort to land a a man on the moon -
March 26, 1953 - The creation of polio vaccine-Dr. Jonas Salk
American medical researcher Dr.JS announces he has a vaccine against polio.
The virus that causes crippling disease of polio (FDR had it)
in 1954 clinical trials using the Salk vaccine begins nearly two million american schoolchildren,A nationwide inoculation campaign began,new polio cases dropped to under 6,000 in 1957 the first year after the Vaccine was widely available -
Apollo 11
the Apollo 11 mission was arguably the most significant event during the space race between the US and soviet union
it was significant cause buzz and Armstrong were the 1st people to step foot on a whole other world and hep secure the win for space race for the US -
creation of NASA
made it possible for the american researchers to collaborated scientific advance, and opportunity envied by many of US soviet scientists