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1950's Lifestyles and Social TrendsApproximately how many cars were registered in the 1950s in the U.S., and what was the average cost?After World War II, one of six workers was employed in the automobile industry, whether directly or indirectly. At the beginning of the 1950's there were 25 million automobiles, although many were...
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HistoryIt is hard to know for sure how something like the advent of the atomic age affects something as large as American society. We cannot be sure as to what factors cause what effects. However, we...
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1950's Lifestyles and Social TrendsCertainly, the "black silence of fear" notion is a part of McCarthy's legacy. I do think that one has to see how McCarthyism was part of the time period and not the only element that defined it....
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HistoryReally, the answer to this question is contained in the question itself. The 1950s can be seen as a decade of paradox or a tale of two Americas because there were some people whose lives were...
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HistoryOf course, different racial minorities experienced the 1950s in ways that were at least somewhat different from one another. We can generally say, however, that minorities experienced the 1950s as...
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1950's Lifestyles and Social TrendsThe original question had to be edited. I think that the American consciousness in the 1950s was conditioned to believe in the classless society for a couple of reasons. The first was that such...
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HistoryWhile we must keep in mind that not all members of various groups experienced the 1950s in exactly the same ways, we can generally say that most white men and many white women enjoyed the benefits...
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HistoryThere is, of course, some truth to this portrayal, but there is also a considerable amount of glossing over the problems that existed during this decade. The 1950s were, without a doubt,...
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HistoryThe impact of the post-World War II economic boom on suburban development was that it had a great deal to do with causing suburbanization. In the years after World War II, the US economy boomed....
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HistoryIn many ways, the answer to this depends on whose perspective we look at the 1950s from. From many people’s perspectives, the 1950s were a great time. This was particularly true for white males...
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1950's Lifestyles and Social TrendsThere were a number of causes of suburbanization. First, there was the building of new highways. After World War II, the government started to build many new roads. These roads allowed people to...
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1950's Lifestyles and Social TrendsThe term “organization man” was coined by William Whyte in his book The Organization Man, published in 1956. This term referred to the idea that American workers had become conformists who...
