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post war economics - usa
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- 1post war economic trends cars1950 - 60% of families owned them
1955- 71% of families owned them - 2post war economic trends TVs1950 - 26% of families
1955 - 76% of families - 3post war economic trends fridges1950- 86% of families
1955 - 94% of families - 41960 women in work40% of women in work
twice as many as in 1940 - 5why was there a huge defence spending in the 50sthe Cold War ( the Korean War)
- 6what was the defence spending like in the 50s$40 billion a year
60% of the federal budget - 7what was the benefit of the huge defence spendingthousands of federal white collar jobs created
8 million workers in federal government in 1957 - 8agreement between the president, federal government and congress that the country benefits from the growth of defence industry1962 Eisenhower,
military industrial complex - 9growth of service industry reasons and examplessuburbia -> motels, malls, drive-throughs
1955 Disneyland opens in California
1945 - 8 shopping centres
1960 - over 4,000
teenagers -> popular music like rock'n'roll (Elvis Presley) - 10the space race1957 Soviet Union's first satellite into space 'sputnik'
1961 JFK announces first man on the moon within 10 years - 11first credit card1950 by Diner's Club
by 1960 - 10million customers who bought on credit
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- AS - Level History (America) FlashCards sobre post war economics - usa, criado por Milana Nikolova em 16-04-2016.
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