Unit 8: Cold War (jan 1, 1945 – jan 1, 1980)

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1950's: Affluent Society- suburbia, women, American Dream: CONFORMITY
Consumer Culture:
- prosperity
- variety and availability of products
- advertisement
- consumer credit and payment plans
The Automobile:
- Federal Highway Act (1956
- links cities
- fams. move farther from big cities
->suburbia and levittown
Suburban Nation- Levittown:
- 1/3 in suburbs
- grown through GI bill
Other America:
- Minority groups struggling economically
- Povertyy in rural agricultural areas
-sharecroppers, tenant farmers, migrant
farmworkers
Beats, Youth and Rock n' Roll
- Beats: jazzy hippy poet activists
- Restless Youth: juvenile delinquency
- Rock n' Roll: Elvis

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