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Added Freezers to Refrigerators
Frozen foods with introduced, the term TV dinner started to be used, -
Consumerism Boomed
Silly Putty and other popular consumer inventions were made -
World War 2 ends
Young families migrated to the suburbs rather than returning to family farms. -
Baby Boom Begins
Number of annual births exceeded 2 per 100 women. About 78.3 million Americans were born during this time frame -
Women and African Americans in the Workplace
When men were sent off to war, women and African Americans were asked to take their jobs, but when they returned the did not accept their old jobs as standard. Women realized that they could make an impact in the workplace and began to make efforts to do so. -
Separate but Equal
Brown v. Board of Education Trial -
Highways Invented