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U.S. Era of Sububanization
For the United States, suburbanization played a huge roll in the 1950s. This created more construction jobs for the jobless to make more homes. Levittown, New York constructed over 40,000 homes for New York’s homeless. By making more homes, that meant more cars were to be made to travel from place to place. This increased the car business located in Michigan by a lot. With more cars that meant there could be more places to be, so came upon shopping malls and drive thru restaurants. -
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All of these things added up makes a era of suburbanization.
By adding these homes, cars, and businesses to our country, not only did it add to our culture but what our lives are like today. All of these homes made room for more families which led to more people in our country. All of the cars that were built, made Michigan known for cars. Detroit, the city of cars is known worldwide because of the 1950s. -
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With all these cars we needed more places to go, now making more roads, cities, and buildings and less farmland. Also, more shopping malls, drive thru restaurants, and more are becoming popular and enlarged because of the era of suburbanization. The era of suburbanization played a huge roll in the 1950s making it full of homes, cars, and businesses. -
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U.S. New Technology
In the 1950s many new things in the technology field were created. The first credit card was created in the 1950s for the purpose of purchasing products without cash on hand. Secondly, the TV was also introduced in the 1950s and created pleasure for everyone. Color in both films and pictures was invented for a more clear and detailed picture. Also, the photocopier was introduced to copy papers without doing it by hand. -
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Lastly, appliances were a big phenomenon in 1955, 60 million appliances were bought, creating more leisure for housewives.
Without this new technology our lives would be completely different now. The credit cards gave us the ability to pay without cash in our hands but in the bank. TV has gave us many channels for everyone to enjoy, and businesses to advertise their products in commercials. -
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Color and film and pictures changed how we take pictures today and eventually created filters. Photocopiers took businesses and schools to the next level, by making the work for teachers easier and better than ever. Without this technology, our lives would be completely different. -
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U.S Music, TV, and More
Lastly, Barbie hit stores and selling a whopping 300,000 Barbies from 1950-1960. This entertainment wowed the people of the 1950s.
Without this entertainment, our lives would be a different story. All of these amazing musicians would not be so famous today without their top chart songs in the 1950s. Still today, these songs created a 50s radio channel and even one for Elvis himself. The TV show and movies are still shown today and inspire more to be made. -
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1950s, the decade of rocking music, amazing movies, and Barbie? First, music hits came mostly from the stars themselves. Including The Weavers, Frank Sinatra, and Elvis Presley. Hits like “Hound Dog” (Elvis) and “Goodnight Irene”. TV shows and movies entertained many of the people of the 1950s. Famous movies such as “Lady and the Tramp” cost $0.46 to see in theatre. TV shows such as “I Love Lucy” entertained everyone in all 181 episodes. -
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U.S. Medical
The increase of the medical field in the 1950s changed our lives today. The organ transplant gave us the opportunity to explore the human body and transplant other organs. The polio vaccine lets us diagnose polio and cure it. Also, the polio vaccine helped by making it somewhat easier to create new vaccines. Lastly, the discovery of DNA helped us out the most. This helps us with genetic engineering, finding cure for diseases, and help us discover more about living things. -
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Barbie created movies, TV shows, toys, games, and more for the modern day time. Without these hit shows, movies, toys, and music, it would be a boring world. -
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The medical field upgraded humongously in the 1950s. December 23rd, 1954 the first organ was transplanted, the kidney. Also, the polio vaccine was developed, especially for the many children diagnosed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Lastly, DNA was discovered and many people built models on their own theory on the deoxyribonucleic acid. Without this increase in the medical field, polio vaccines, organ transplants, and DNA would not be existent today. -
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Queen Elizabeth 2nd changed Europe’s lives forever.
Queen Elizabeth 2nd changed Europe’s lives today. Elizabeth holds, the record of Europe’s longest monarchy. She has been queen for 63 years (1952----). Queen Elizabeth 2nd also is expected to be the longest traveler for British monarchy. She travels to many countries and meets with many world leaders. Queen Elizabeth became queen at age 25. This inspires many other girls and women to be bold and branch and try new things. -
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George and his daughter changed Great Britain forever. After the death of King George the sixth, in 1952 of lung cancer there needed to be a new monarchy. While out of the country on a tour of Australia, Princess Elizabeth, the daughter of George got the news and immediately flew back to Great Britain. On her way back home, she was elected Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Queen Elizabeth 2nd’s coronation was the first ever televised coronation. -
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This was discovered by James Watson and Francis Crick, February 28th, 1953, a Saturday morning. This discovery changed the thought of living things forever.
With this improvement in the medical field, a lot of new possibilities are accessible. Such as genetic fingerprints, a way to identify a specific organism by finger. Secondly, genetic engineering has made opportunities to make more organisms and alter organisms. -
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Also, rapid gene sequencing, which enhances the medical and science field to the next level. Lastly, monoclonal antibodies are also added to the list of upgrades because of the double helix. This addition to the medical field has given everyone an opportunity to explore the history and mind set of DNA. -
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The double helix is been one of the most important discoveries all around the world. The double helix is the structure of DNA. DNA also known as deoxyribonucleic acid is made of a “backbone” and “rungs”. The “backbone” is made of sugar and phosphate. The “rungs” are made of adenine and thymine and cytosine and guanine. The discovery of the double helix was known as the “secret of life” because every living thing contain DNA. The double helix got its name from the twisted ladder shape it has. -
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U.S. Civil Rights Movement
The Civil Rights Movement played a major role in the 1950s. Segregation, the separation of races was causing many problems in our world. It separated housing (most of the houses built were for whites) and jobs (usually low paying, dirty jobs for the African Americans). Over 50% of all blacks were in poverty because of these reasons. Martin Luther King Jr and Rosa Parks are 2 of the few African Americans that stood up for their rights and freedom. -
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For Martin, he gave his “I Got A Dream” speech which changed segregation completely. One day Rosa would not give up her seat to a white man on the bus causing a huge scene. Fortunately, this scenes were two of the many that ended segregation.
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Without segregation ending, African Americans would live the unfair life today and so would we. Africans Americans would still live in different schools and work harder, less paying jobs. We wouldn't even have Martin Luther King Jr. Day without his speech! Without Rosa and many others the Civil Rights Movement wouldn’t exist making it the one of the most important events of the 1950s. -
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Sputnik
Sputnik changed how everyone thinks and looks at space. Sputnik was launched October 4th 1957 in a small town in Russia. Sputnik was the size of a beach ball and obviously a sphere. Sputnik also had whip like antennae on one side of the spacecraft. It weighed 183.9 lbs was 58 centimeters at the diameter. It also only took 98 minutes to orbit Earth. Sputnik encouraged the Soviet Union to make a Sputnik 2 and so they did. This time, it was a bigger spacecraft containing a dog! -
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Sputnik played a huge part in the history of Europe but also a huge part in astronomy.
Sputnik changed astronomy for us human beings in modern day. First, replicas of Sputnik can be found in museums such as the aircraft museum in Washington D.C. It was also, the first artificial satellite to be released into outer space. This caused a “space race” once the U.S. found out about it. Russia beat the U.S at the race which caused another rumor. -
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Other countries feared that since Russia was the first country to release into space, they are capable of sending missiles to other countries. Sputnik changed how we think and discover outer space. -
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The Mini
Invented in 1950, the “Mini” was the best selling British car of all time. From 1959-1961, the Mini came in 2 available models the Basic and De Luxe. From the result of being the first model. It was only available in 3 colors and was priced at $552 U.S dollars (Basic) and $596 U.S dollars (De Luxe). Which also got upgraded into 2 more models, the Super and Super De Luxe, later in the period. -
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Also know as the small car icon of Britain, the Mini was first made by the British Motor Corporation and is now taken over by BMW. This was important to Europe in the past because it gave them a popular, yet cheap car to purchase and enjoy. Without this cheap yet good quality car, Europeans would not enjoy one of the most selling cars in Europe.
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This gave Europe an export for countries all around the world- the car which is now called the “Cooper”. Now, you can customize your very own Cooper by choosing models and unique colors for different parts of the car. This car now retails for $24,000 U.S dollars (average). This car was also called the Mini for a reason, this car is fairly small, making it great for couples because of the often 2 seat feature. Also, the mini is now available in hard, soft, and roofless top. -
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Luna 2
Luna 2 impacted the lives of many European lives and other lives all over the world. Luna 2 was the second model of the Luna series. This series was created by the Soviet Union (Russia). Luna 2 was launched September 12th 1959. Luna was a spherical spacecraft with 1 antennae. 33.5 hours into the flight, Luna hit the moon loosing all signals. Luna means moon obviously giving it the mission to go to the moon. Luna 2 impacted the lives of many European and people all over the world. -
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Luna 2 impacted our lives today and how we discover outer space. Luna 2 changed how we track our spacecrafts and how we make them. Luna 2 was the first man made spacecraft to land on a celestial body (the moon). Also, Luna 2 confirmed the moon has no magnetic fields because it hit the moon itself with ease. No radiation belts on the moon was also confirmed with the help of Luna 2. Luna 2 affects how we discover in the astronomic field and how we plan to learn more as well. -
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