Happy+days+Notes

Positives - the US economy was booming - industry ook off at a fast pace - Plastic, frozen foods, and jet engines were some of the new tech. advances - The US supplies werealso demanded around the world, U had 65% of worlds goods -Housing industry boomed - More americans went to college - automoblies were in high demand - huge population boom - wage increaed - more amerians went into the middleclass -americans were buying more consumer products -antibiotics were used - Polio vaccine came out -imcreased space research -suburbs expanded - more women jobs were available -Elvis Presley

Negitives

- everyone was worried about the spread of communism - SU tested thir first atomic bomb. - running second t SU in space program -minorites were still unwelcome in ways - people feared bomb attacks (they taought kids what to do in a case)\ - People were so parinoid they had so much civil defense - cold war - cold war propaganda - 1 out of every five lived in poverty - people left cities, then didn't pay city taxes, resulting in a decreasing city. -many mexicans came illegally -