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Daily Life in the United States, 1940-1959 - Shifting Worlds (Hardcover, New)
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Daily Life in the United States, 1940-1959 - Shifting Worlds (Hardcover, New)
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Examine the everyday lives of ordinary Americans from the 1940s and
1950s and discover how very different the two decades were. World
War II affected Americans and the way they behaved, not only in the
1940s, but also in the years that followed when the depression that
preceded the war was replaced with an economic boom. Explore how
women's roles and lives changed during these two very distinct
decades, how politics and political decisions impacted all walks of
life, and what the advent of growing technology, much of it
developed during the war, meant to the general population. What was
it like to be a woman suddenly earning her own money while men were
off fighting? How did children and teenagers contribute to the war
effort? How did housing change in postwar America? What pastimes
were popular during these two decades and how did they reflect the
times? These questions and others are explored in detail,
encouraging students, teachers, and interested readers to recognize
the tremendous shift in society between the war years and the
atomic age that immediately followed. This text presents the 1940s
as a time of social problems that existed alongside community
commitment to the war, while the 1950s are presented as a time when
exciting social change such as the beginning of the civil rights
movement and the building of Levittowns occurred. After the war
ordinary people began to question long-accepted ideas. The
exploration of these everyday details provides a rich look at two
very important decades in our country's history.
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