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Air conditioning
The 1st air conditioning system was designed in 1902 by the inventor Willis Carrier. The first air conditioners were to bulky. Window a/c units didn't come about until the late 1950s. The general public often first encountered air conditioning in movie theaters. By the 1980 most of the U.S population had home air conditioning. Americans have taken to mechanical cooling avidly and greedily. In the 1940s and 1950s air conditioning increased employee work out put by 24%. -
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Birth of Rock and Roll
The 1940s-50s was a time for rock and roll became very popular within the young society. Rock and roll was 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 1960s the British invasion took place, being British artist took over the music industry. -
G.I. Bill
The G.L. Bill, officially the service men's read adjustment act of 1944, provided many benefits to veterans of wards. It established veterans hospitals provided for vocational rehabilitation made low interest mortgage available and granted stipends covering tuition attending college expenses for homes. It still being used till this day. -
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Cold War
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Polio Vaccine by Dr. Jonas Saln
In 1955, it was announced that the Polio vaccine was effective and safe and a nationwide inoculation campaign began Salk conducted the first human trails on former Polio patients and on himself and his family, and by 1953, two million American school children were given the new Polio vaccine and cases dropped to under 6,000 in 1957, the first year after the 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. He called the signing a historical step, further equipping the U.S for leadership in the space age. -
Moon Speech
On May 25, 1961, Pres.Kennedy announced they were sending an American safely to the moon. Kennedy felt great pressure to have the U.S ''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 half hours later Neil became the first person to ever walk on the moon. The Apollo 11 mission occurred 8 years after years later. Announced that the national goal of landing a man on the moon by the end of 1960s. -
Creation of NASA
National Acrobatic and administration (NASA). NASA made it possible for the American researchers to collaborate on and disseminate scientific advance, an opportunity envied by many of U.S Soviet Union scientist. -
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 1st 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.