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Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives. Describe aspects of the US in the 1950s including: The Baby Boom Suburbanization Development of the Interstate Highway System The Importance of the Automobile Conformity Fear of the Bomb. The Baby Boom: The increased US birth rate, 1946-1964.

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Learning Objectives

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  1. Learning Objectives • Describe aspects of the US in the 1950s including: • The Baby Boom • Suburbanization • Development of the Interstate Highway System • The Importance of the Automobile • Conformity • Fear of the Bomb

  2. The Baby Boom: The increased US birth rate, 1946-1964

  3. Suburbanization:The growth of areas on fringes of cities • Families left aging cities for newer suburbs • Levittown, NY : a symbol of suburbanization • Contributed to decline of many cities and neglect of public transportation • Beginning of “white flight” (whites moving out of predominantly non-white cities)

  4. Interstate Highway Act of 1956 • Provided funding for what became 44,000 miles of interstate highways • The car is king

  5. Conformity: Behavior in accordance with socially accepted standards • Little Boxes • Listen to Malvina Reynolds: What is the criticism?

  6. Fear of the Bomb: “Duck and Cover” • The Atomic Cafe

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