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Montgomery G.I. Bill
the bill helped 15 million returning U.S. veterans reenter the job market. -
Bretton Woods conference
Bretton Woods conference included the formation of the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development most importantly the proposed introduction of an adjustable pegged foreign exchange rate system. -
postwar recession
IT was rumored the gret dpression may come back due to no having jobs. -
Levittown
Levittown are four large suburban developments created in the United States of America by William Levitt and his company Levitt & Sons. the town are made after World War II for returning veterans and their new families, the communities offered attractive alternatives to cramped central city locations and apartments. -
Taft-Hartley Act
The act outlawed all-union workplaces, made unions liable for damages incurred during interunion disputes, and required labor organizers to denounce Communism and take oaths of loyalty. -
Improvement in medicince
Nutrition and public health also improved during these years. Jonas Salk’s development of the polio vaccine in 1952 -
Ohio turnpike
was bilt from 1949 to 1955, construction for the roadway was completed a year prior to the Interstate Highway System. The modern Ohio Turnpike is signed as three interstate numbers: I-76, I-80, and I-90.Built of the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956. -
Automobile
IN the 1960y the Automobile was spreading again through american culture. Ever improving urban mobility. -
War on poverity
Do to the war jobs being gone people found it hard to finds jobs of any kind. There wernt enought jobs for the population of america. Cause a huge part of the population to move to many of the places. -
The Entertainment Explosion
Comsumerism, in turn, prompted the entertainment industry to invent new ways for Americans to entertain themselves. By the mid 1960 90 percent of American families owned televisions, and more and more spent the bulk of their free time watching TV. Advertisment where growing around the T.V. being mafe -
The African-American Migration
Blacks, meanwhile, continued to move in large numbers from the South to northern and northeastern cities in the 1960s.The migration improved the aferican american overall economic status and ultimately helped make the civil rights movement possible. -
Baby Boom
Post ww2 the birth rate grew the number of annual births exceeded 2 per 100 women. The most population growth happned in the sunbelt. -
Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956
The act built the inerstatesy system. It made forth in the ablilty to take a car any location in america. -
Interstate 87
Interstate 87 is a 333.49-mile Interstate Highway located entirely within New York State in the United States. The highway begins at the Bronx approaches of the Triborough Bridge in New York City, from where it runs northward through the Hudson Valley, the Capital District, and the easternmost part of the North Country to the Canadian border in the Town of Champlain. -
Arpanet
The government financed some of private industry's research and development throughout these decades, most notably ARPANET (which would become the Internet).5 August 1968 -
The Sun Belt rise in popularty
The Sun Belt is the region in the United States that stretches across the southern and southwestern portions of the country from Florida to California. It became populor in building in due there was nothing thier. IT grew -
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 lands on the moon -
1973 oil crisis
proclaimed an oil embargo. By the end of the embargo in March 1974,the price of oil had risen from US$3 per barrel to nearly $12. -
1973–1974 bear market
it was one of the worst stock market downturns in modern history.It hurt the world but particularly the United Kingdo. -
In Automobile Age Atlanta
In Automobile Age Atlanta + Preston showed how the automobile became a social symbol of wealth and combined with federal subsidies led to the development of Atlanta’s new suburbs. He concluded that the immediate results were class differences and racially segregated neighborhoods.
