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The GI bill of Rights

  • Created in 1944
  • Also known as the Serviceman's Readjustment Act

The Baby Boom

  • Enabled 8 million returning veterans to go to school/ acquire a technical skill
  • Following the end of WWII there was a surge in births
  • 79 million americans were born
  • Provided government benefits to veterans like;
  • Low cost mortgages/ loans
  • Tuition
  • Living expenses/ housing
  • Couples could afford to have families now that the Great Depression was over
  • The country was more optimistic
  • Birth rates rose to previous pre-depression numbers

What events of the 1950s contributed to the american dream?

The Interstate Highway System

  • Created by president Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Construction was started in 1956 and completed 35 years later
  • Cost 425 billion dollars
  • Individual people began striving toward independence
  • Total length of 47,714 miles
  • The second largest road network in the world
  • Soldiers began starting families
  • Our way of life today was shaped by the trends of the time
  • A 'normal' outlook on life was create

The Space Race

  • A competition during the cold war between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.
  • Each country was striving for technological supremacy
  • Every advancement was seen as a gain of national security
  • Some advancements created were;
  • Artificial satellites
  • Human spaceflight
  • Unmanned probes to other planets
  • Travel to the moon

The 1950's American Dream

By: Stephen Sackett

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