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Baby boom
Baby boom happend for older americans had postponed marrige and childbirth during the great depression n ww2 were joined in the maternity wards by young adults who were eager to stsrt families after ww2
Baby boomers had impact on buying of americans homes n contribute about 77 of wealtg accumulated in american baby boomers impact on ss once retire most baby boomers will be retiring n this will drain ss. 4million -
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Apollo 11
-the appollo 11 mission was aurguably the most significant event during the soace race betweeb the us abd the ussr it was significant because buzz aldrin and neil armstrong were the first people to step foot on a whole other world and help secure the win for the space race for us. -
polio vaccine by dr jonas salk
jonas sal developed the 1st effective polio vaccine in 1952 his vaccine was tested in the francis field trial when it begin it involved approximatly 4000 children but would frow to eventually involved around 1.8 million children acroos 44 states. it was the largest medical expirament at the time april of 1955 the vaccine was liseensed for distribution he never patented the vaccine so he didnt make any money but instead made it easly accesable and distributed nation wide. -
frendshipds7
the freindships 7 is a capsule that john glenn went to space in and he was the first american to orbit the earth. it led to mercury into earth orbit and enabled Glenn to circle earth 3 times john glenn is responsible for more student studding matt and science and being instead in space than anyone -
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Cold War
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Air Conditioning
-Many of the central changes in our society after ww2 wouldn't have been possible if ac was not keeping homes and businesses cool.
-Everyone wanted ac down at the sunbelt, so when it exploded in the 1950s cars, homes and businesses had people coming in. especial now that it was possible to work while being cool w Ac.
-One of the first to invest in Ac was theaters were it was an attraction itself making people flock to them. time period of Hollywood golden age -
pres kennedy moon speech
"we choose to go to the moon", was deliverd by jfk it was one of kennedys earlier speech meant to persuade the american people to support the national effort to land a man on the moon and return him back safley to the earth. to help the space race against the ussr during the cold war -
G.I bill
it gave spaceman vhances to go to colleges and trade schools or buy houses of buisneses because service me re going to trade schhool it helped advance technology because lots of service man used the money to buy houses to start famillies making mass production on houses in urban areas -
Nasa
National acrobatic n space administration
-nasa made it possible for the american researchers to collaborate on and dissminate scientific advance an opportunity envied by many us soviet scientist -
2nd great migration
The migration had deal with africans . over 5mill left from nortg to douth and sothwest. They left to do similarity of the 1st migration but mostly for the jobs that continued to . the states offerd skilled jobs in the deffence industry after the wae mass production was needed american had becomes a highly urbanized population. -
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Rock n roll.
the popularity of rock n roll resulted in a powerful impact on society when jazz, blues and country was combined it created rock and roll.elvis presley was one influencing young adults to be independent making some disobedient towards their parents.