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2nd Great Migration
-African Americans were affected by this move
-They moved because of economic concerns as the men worked in unskilled jobs and woman were placed in domestic services
- Education opportunities, political disenfranchisement, and racial violence also drove migration
-They moved from the southern areas like Mississippi and Alabama to western areas like Los Angeles,San Francisco and Seattle -
G.I. Bill
-Benefits to veterans included cash payment,living expenses for college,and one year unemployment compensation
-Exposure to combat was not required,but needed 90 days of active duty -
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Cold War
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Baby Boom
Population started growing rapidly.Men who came back from the war wanted someone who would carry out their legacy.So they started fornicating.The total births -
Poliomyelitis
American medical Dr.James Salk announces on a national radio show that he has successfully tested a vaccine against poliomyelitis the virus that causes the chipping disease of polio(FDR has polio)in 1954,Clinical trailsuin the Salk vaccie and place began on nearly 2 million american school children -
Air Conditioning
During the post war period that ac arrived in american homes with more than 1 million units sold in 1953
-AC served the needs of home builders eager to build huge numbers of cheap houses + utilities were only too happy to keep ramping up electricity sales to the burgeoning suburbs -
Creation of NASA
On this day in 1958,President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed an act creates this National Aeroheuties and space adminstration (NASA).He called the signing an historic event for this U.S. space age -
Friendship 7
@9:47am John Glenn launched from cape canaveral's lanch complex 19 to become the first american to orbit the earth.An atlas launch vehicle propelled a mercury spacecraft into earth orbit and enabled John Glenn to circle earth 3 times.The success of "Friendship 7" mission enables N.A.S.A to accelerate further into its efforts with "project mercury" -
Moon Speech
President Kennedy's "moonspeech" declared powerfully that the U.S. "would go to the moon before the decade was out". -
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 launched from cape Kennedy carrying commander Neil Armstrong,Command module pilot Michael Collins,And lunar module pilot Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin.Armstrong stepped on the moon,following him was BUZZ Aldrin.