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Baby boom
younger marriages and larger families resulted in 50 million babies entering the U.S. population b/w 1945 and 1960. Tended to focus women’s attention on raising children and homemaking. By 1960, 1/3 of all married women worked outside the home
Levittown
Long Island New York suburb with pre-fabricated housing
Blue Collar/ White collar
Employment category from physical work to more professional work
Sunbelt migration
a warmer climate, lower taxes, and economic opportunities in defense-related industries attracted many GI’s and their families from Florida to California. Military spending during the Cold War helped finance the shift of industry, people, and ultimately political power from one region to the other
The beat culture
a group of rebellious writers and intellectuals.
4th great awakening
Religious revival after WWII that called for a return to morality and patriotism
Billy Graham
evangelical preacher who also warned against the evils of Communism.
Sputnik
in 1957, the Soviet Union shocked the U.S. and surprised the world by launching the first satellites into orbit around the earth. The technological leadership of the U.S. was open to question. U.S. rockets designed to duplicate the Soviet achievement failed repeatedly
National Defense Education Act
authorized giving hundreds of millions in federal money to the schools for science and foreign language education.
Duck-and-Cover Drills
Federal program for schools to prepare for an atomic bomb
Baby tooth project
1958, scientists at Washington University began collecting samples from children in St. Louis, Missouri looking for radiation fall-out (strontium-90) a cancer-causing radioactive isotope - Strontium-90 settles in bone
Kitchen debate
Nixon and Khrushchev discussion over the merits of communism and capitalism at the American National Exhibition in Moscow 1959
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