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Air Conditioning
Many of the central changes in our society after ww2 wouldnt have been possible if ac wasnt keeping homes & workplaces cool. Everyone wanted ac down at the sun belt, (including theater) in Hollywood golden age. Where ac its self was an attraction so when it was exploding around 1950s cars, homes, and businesses had people migrating down south were its hot as hell. -
Friendships 7
The friendship 7 is a capsule that john Glenn went to space in and he was the first and he was the first American to orbit the earth. it led to mercury into earth orbit and enable glenn to circle earth 3 times john glenn is responsible for more students studying matt science and being interested in space than anyone. -
Pres Kennedy's "moon speach"
"we choose to go to the moon" , was delivered by jfk it was one of kennedy's earlier speech meant to persuade the american people to support the national effort to land a man to the moon and return him back safely to the earth. to help him begin the "space race" against ussr during the cold war. -
rock & roll
the popularity of rock and 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 -
Berlin wall
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Polio vaccine by Dr jonas Salk
Jonas salk developed the 1st effective polio vaccine in 1952. his vaccine was tested in the francis field trail when it begin it involved approx. 4000 children, but would grow to eventually involve around 1.8 million children across 44 states it was the largest medical experiment at the time. April of 1955 the vaccine was licensed for distribution he never patented the vaccine so he didst make any money but instead made it easily accessible and distributed nation wide. -
G.I Bill
it gave serviceman chances to go to colleges and trade schools or buy houses of business. because serviceman are going to trade schools it helped advanced tech because lots of servicemen used the money to buy house to start families making mass productions on houses in urban areas -
National Acrobatic & Space Admin (NASA)
NASA made it possible for the american researchers to collaborate on disseminate scientific advance, an opportunity envied by many us soviet scientists -
Apollo 11
the apollo 11 mission was arguably the most significant event during the space race between the us and soviet union. it was significant because Buzz Aldrin & Neil Armstrong were 1st people to step foot on a whole other world and help secure the win for the space race for us -
Baby Boom
happened for older americans had postponed marriage and chlidbirth during the great depression and ww2 were joined in the nations maternity wards by yound adults who were eager to start families after ww2 baby boomers had an impact on buying habits of americans and contributes about 77% of wealth accumulated in america baby boomers had an impact on social sec. once they retire, most baby boomers will be retiring and this will drain social sec. -
2nd migration
the migration had deal with the african americans over 5 million left from the north to the south and southwest. they left do to similarity of the 1st migration but mostly for the jobs that continued too. the states offered skilled jobs in the defense industry after the war mass production was needed america had became a highly urbanized population