Social Sciences and History / Unit 2 SSH 0132 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Affluence, Suburbs, and the Baby Boom
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The idea
Eisenhower balanced budgets, built defense around massive retaliation, and avoided new wars while the economy boomed. Record marriages, the baby boom of nineteen forty-six to sixty-four, and mass-produced Levittowns made a suburban nation.
In practice
Rock and roll and television reshaping leisure.
Where people slip
Truman's Fair Deal had been partly blocked by Republicans and southern Democrats. Prosperity was uneven, and the next video shows where.
Your place on the trail
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Builds on
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