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2nd Great Migration
- African Americans were affected by this move
- They moved because of economic concerns as the men worked in unskilled jobs and women were placed in domestic services
- Education opportunities, political disfranchisement, and racial violence and also drove migration
- They worked in shipyards and aircraft plants
- They moved from southern areas like Mississippi and Alabama to western areas like Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle
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G.I. Bill
- Benefits to veterans included cash payment, living expenses for college, and one year unemployment compensation. Exposure to combat was not required, but needed 90 days of active duty.
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Baby Boom
Population started growing rapidly.Men who came back war wanted someone who would carry out their legacy,so they started fornicating.The total births per year during this period grew from 2.3 million to 4.3 million.This boom and the G.I. Bill helped veterans lead developers into building cheaper, mass producing housing, Home-ownership increased by 50%.The movement of the middle become families to the suburbs led to a declining urban tax base and decaying inner cities. -
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Rock and Roll
The popularity of rock and roll resulted in a powerful impact on society when jazz, blues and country combined it created rock and roll. -
Poliomyelitis
American medical Dr. Jonas Salk announces on a national radio show that he has successfully tested a vaccine against poliomyelitis the virus that causes the crippling disease of polio [FDR has polio] in 1954, clinical industrial the Salk Vaccine and placebo began on nearly 2 million american School children -
Air Conditioning
During the post war period that ac arrived in american homes with more than 1 million units sold in 1953. AC served the needs of home builders eager to build huge numbers of cheap houses and utilities were only too happy to keep ramping up electricity sales to the burgeoning suburbs. AC for cars became a status symbol too. Many of the central changes in society since world war 2 would not have been possible were AC not keeping our homes and workplaces cool. Businesses start booming -
Creation of NASA
On this day in 1958, President Dwight D Eisenhower signed an act creates this national aeronautics and space administration. He called the signing a historic event for the United States space age since the end of ww2. The United States had work to make breakouts in rocket science. -
Friendship 7
@9:47 am John Glenn launched from Cape Canaveral's launch complex 14 to become the first american to orbit the earth. An atlas launch vehicle Propelled a mercury spacecraft into earth orbit and enabled. John Glenn to circle earth 3 times. The success of "Friendship 7" mission enabled N.A.S.A. to accelerate further into its efforts with "project mercury" -
Moon Speech
President Kennedy's "moon speech" declared powerfully that the u.s. "would go to the moon by the end of the decade". which means the speech kick-started the u.s. to be involved in the space race. This also meant that the average Americans would have to pay more in order for space explorations -
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 launched from Cape Kennedy carrying Commander Neil Armstrong, Command module pilot Michael Collins, and lunar module pilot Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, Ar,strong stepped on the moon 20 minutes later Aldrin followed him. Releasing the famous quote by Armstrong " That's one small step for man, One giant leap for mankind". This secured the win of the space race against Russia.
