1940's Lifestyles and Social Trends | Important Events in Lifestyles and Social Trends, 1940–1949

1940

• TRENDS AND FADS: Fifty-one percent of women between the ages of twenty and twenty-four are married. The average size of American families has shrunk to 3.8 members. Annual attendance at baseball games is estimated at ten million. Weekly movie attendance is estimated at eighty million. Nickel jukeboxes appear in restaurants, taverns, tearooms, variety stores, and gas stations; sixteen records play for fifty cents.
• The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) denounces the military's policy of racial segregation.
• The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) denounces the Communist Party and the German-American Bund as un-American.

1941

• TRENDS AND FADS: The median age at first marriage is twenty-four for men and 21.5 for women. With the improvement of the economy, car sales soar. Alcohol consumption also rises.
• "Rosie the...