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2nd Great Migration
African Americans were affected by this move. They moved because of economic concerns as the men worked in unskilled jobs and women were placed in domestic services. Education opportunities, political disfranchisement, and racial violence also drove migration. They worked in shipyards and aircraft plants. They moved from southern areas like Mississippi and Alabama to western areas like Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle. -
G.I Bill
Benefits to veterans included cash payment, living expenses for college, and one year unemployment compensation. Exposure to combat was not required, but needed 90 days of active duty. -
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Baby Boom
Population started growing rapidly. Men who came back from war wanted someone who would carry out their legacy, so the started fornicating.The total births per year grew from 2.3 million to 4.3 million. This boom and the G.I Bill (servicemen's readjustment Act of 1944) helped veterans lead developers into building cheaper, mass produced housing. Home ownership increased by 50%. The movement of the middle-income families to the suburbs led to a declining urban tax base and decaying inner cities. -
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Rock & Roll
The popularity of rock & roll resulted in a powerful impact on society when jazz, blues and country was combined it created rock & roll.
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Air Conditioning
During the postwar period that AC arrived in American homes with more than 1 million units sold in 1953. AC served the needs of home builders eager to build huge numbers of cheap houses
& utilities were only too happy to keep ramping up electricity sales to the burgeoning suburbs. AC was for cars became a status symbol too. Many of the central changes in society since world war 2 would not have been possible were AC not keeping our homes and workplaces cool, businesses started booming. -
Creation of the Polio Vaccine
On March 26th, 1953 American medical Dr.Jonas Salk announces on a national radio show that he has successfully tested a vaccine against Poliomyelitis the virus that causes the crippling disease of Polio (FDR has Polio) in 1954, clinical insulin the Salk Vaccie and Placebo began on nearly 2 million American school children. -
Creation of NASA
President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed an act that created the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. (NASA) He called this a historic event. For the United States space age since the end of world war 2 . The United States had worked to make break outs in rocket science. -
Friendship 7
@9:47am John Glenn launched from cape canaveral launch complex 19 to become the first American to orbit the earth. An Atlas launch vehicle propelled a mercury spacecraft into earths orbit & enabled John Glenn to circle earth 3 times. The success of the friendship 7 mission enabled NASA to accelerate further in it's efforts with "project mercury" -
Moon Speech
President Kennedy's "moon speech" declared powerfully that the US "would go to the moon before the decade was out." Which means the speech kick started the US to be involved in the space race. This also meant that the average American would have to pay more in order for space explorations. -
Apollo 2
Apollo 2 launched from cape Kennedy carrying commander Neil Armstrong, Command model pilot Michael Collins, and lunar model pilot Edwin "Buzz" Alden Armstrong stepped on the moon, following him was Buzz Alden. Releasing the famous quote by Armstrong "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." This secured the win of the Space race for Russia.