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ECONOMIC
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--Most evenly distributed wealth,economy transformed -(except woman and blacks)
--JOBS: Military Industrial Complex -Defense in response to cold war (aircraft-boeing lockheed honeywell, silicon valley) HVAC --Auto- everybody had cars and travelled around - vacations -Sierra club |
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SOCIAL
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--Vets came home after WWII - GI BILL sponsored homes-
--Baby boomers -levittown- all the homes looked the same -white uniformity --TV was huge- I love Lucy, Fathers knows best, Jack benny, Jackie Gleason, Alfred Hitchcock - --Jonas salk polio vaccine and penicillin --Rock and Roll - Elvis Presley --Beatniks-beat poet- jack kerouac |
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POLITICAL
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--GI BIll,
--Fear of world destruction Arms Race, Atomic Bomb, Nuclear Fall out Shelters. Communism and McCarthy witch hunt -Nixon --Eisenhower/Nixon Brown vs. board of education- segregation of black in |
