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Baby Boom During The Cold War

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In the American society during the Cold War American society was booming. People were healthy and were happy, but at the same time, they were scared due to the worlds new weapon. The atomic bomb. As other nations invented it they followed in American footsteps and advanced in science. Which made American afraid due to the Cold War, so the U.S. government started building houses with bomb shelters to people survive a nuclear blast. As war heroes came home America enter the baby bomb age. Nine months after the war heroes came home the cry of newborn babies was being heard through the country. It was called the baby boom due to in 1947 there were three-point-four million babies were born, then in 1952 there were three-point-nine more babies born,
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