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air conditioning
The 1st. air conditioning system was designed in 1902 by inventor Willis carrier. The first air conditioners were too bulky.Window a/c units didn't come about until the late 1950's. The general public often first encountered air conditioning in movie theaters, by 1980 most of the u.s. population had home air conditioning Americans have taken to mechanical cooling avidly and greedily. In the 1940's and 1950's air conditioning increased employee work out put by 24% -
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Birth of rock
The 1940's-50's was a time when rock&roll became very popular within the young society. Rock&roll was a mixture of the blues, Jazz,gospel, and country western.overall it introduced new music and dancing of twisting and thrusting, that the older society was shocked by. In the 1960's the British invasion took place, being British artist took over the music industry. -
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2nd great migration
was the migration of more than 5 million African Americans they traveled to the west . They went to states such as California to get defense Industry jobs in the cold war it took place through out world war 2 -
The G.L bills
The g..i HILL OFFICIALLY THE SERVICE MEN'S READ ADJUSTMENT ACT OF 1944, PROVIDED MANY BENEFITS to veterans of world war 2 . it established veterans hospitals provided for vocational rehabilitation made law interest mortgage available and granted stipends covering tuition attending college expenses for homes it still being used till this day. -
Marshall plan
The Marshall plan was extremely successful .It speeded the the recovery of western Europe and created good will towards the u.s. from 1948 to 1952 European economies grew at an unprecedented rate. -
baby boom
Baby boom happened for older Americans had postponed marriage and childbirth during the great depression and ww2 were joined in the nation's maternity ward by young adults who were eager to start families after ww2. -
NASA
On July of 1958 presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an act that creates the national Aeronautics and space administrations. He called the signing a historic step, further, equipping the united states for leadership in the space age. -
moon speech
He gave the historic speech to help start united states on a course to the moon. the reason for the speech was to start an ambitions space explorations program during the sace race/ cold war -
Friendship 7
NASA astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the earth in his mercury capsule friendship 7, Glenn's accomplishment brought a sense of pride and relief to Americans and instantly made the 31 years old Glenn a national hero. -
Apollo 11
On July 1969 american astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin buzz Aldrin became the first people to land on the moon and about six and half hours later Neil Armstrong became the first person to ever walk on the moon. The Apollo 11 mission occurred 8 years after years later. Announced that the national goal of landing a man on the moon by the end of 1960's.