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Air Conditioning
the 1st air conditioning system was designed in 1902 by inventor Willis carries. The first air conditioning were too bulky. window a/c units didn't come about until the late 1950's the general public often first encountered air conditioning in movie theaters. by 1980 most of the u.s population had home air conditioning Americans have taken to mechanical cooling avidly and greedily. In the 1940's and 1950's air conditioning increased employee work out put by 24% -
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Rock & Roll
The 1940's-50's was a time the Rock & Roll became very popular within the young society. Rock & Roll was a mixture of the blues, jazz, gospel, and country western. Overall it introduced new music and dancing of twisting and thrusting, that the older society was shocked by. In the 1960's the British invasion took place, being British artist took over the music industry. -
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2nd Great Migration
the migration had deal with the African Americans, over 5 million left from north to the south and southwest. they left do to similarity of the first migration but mostly for the jobs that continued to. The states offered skilled jobs in the defense industry after the war mass production was needed America had become a highly urbanized population. -
G.I. Bill
The G.I. Bill, officially the service mens read justment act of 1944, provided many benefits to veterans of WW2. It established veterans hospitals ptovided for vocational rehabilitation made low interest mortgage available and granted stipends covering tuition attending collage expenses for home it still being used till this day. -
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Baby Boom
-baby boom happened for older Americans had postponed marriage and childbirth during the great depression and WW2 were joined in the nations maternity wards by young adults who were eager to start families after WW2
-baby boomers had impact on the buying habits of Americans and contribute about 77% of the wealth accumulated in America baby boomers had impact on social security once they retire, most baby boomers will be retiring and this will drain social security. -
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Cold War
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Polio Vaccine by Dr.Jonas Salk
in 1955, it was announced that the Polio Vaccine was effective and safe and a nationwide inoculation campaign began salk conducted the first human trials on former polio patients and on himself and his family, and by 1953 two million American school children were given the new polio vaccines and cases dropped to under 6,000 in 1957, the first year after the vaccine was widely available. -
NASA
On July of 1958 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an act that creates the national aeronautics and space administration (NASA). He called the singing a [sic] historic step,further, equipped the united states for leadership in the space age. -
Moon Speech
On May 25, 1961, President kennedy announced they were sending an American safely to the moon kennedy felt great pressure to have the us. "catch up to and overtake" the soviet union in the space race four years after the sputnik shock of 1957, yuri gagarin had became the first human in space in April 12, 1961 greatly embarrassing for the u.s. -
Friendship 7
NASA astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the earth in his mercury capsule friendship 7 Glenn's accomplishment brought a sense of pride and relief to Americans and instantly made the 31-year-old Glenn a national hero. -
Apollo 11
On July 1969 American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Buzz Aldrin became the first people to land on the moon and about six and a half hours later Neil Armstrong became the first to ever walk on the moon. The Apollo 11 mission occurred 8 years later announced that the national goal of landing a man on the moon by the end of 1960's.