Levittown In The 1950

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Levittown- The baby boom after the war led to a large increase in the demand for housing. During the 1950’s the dream to own a house and build a better future became within reach to much of America. The invention of Levittown soon led to the housing of nearly 40,000 people within suburbs. Levittown was the low-cost, mass-produced developments of suburban tract housing built by William Levitt after World War II, particularly in Long Island.

Brown vs. Board of Education- Brown vs. Board of Education was the U.S Supreme Court decision that struck down racial segregation in public education and declared “separate but equal” unconstitutional. This court case was the start of the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S which led to an attempt

These documents were meant to promote peace in Vietnam, but instead led to the Vietnam War. The division of Vietnam was temporary, lasting only two years and was intended to resolve military problems such as free elections and self government.

Silent Spring- The 1950’s consensus was challenged greatly by books published by writers such as Rachel Carson, James Baldwin, Jane Jacobs, and Michael Harrington. Silent Spring was a book written by Rachel Carson during 1962 about the environmental costs of economic growth. In her book she discusses how the use of pesticides has a negative effect on the environment, particularly on birds.

Cuban Missile Crisis- During Kennedy’s presidency, the relations between the United States and the Soviet Union were crumbling quickly. In 1962, it led to a dangerous crisis that put much of the U.S in a state of fear, the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Cuban Missile Crisis was caused when the United States discovered Soviet offensive missile sites in Cuba in October of 1962. The missiles were placed strategically so they would land on U.S soil when launched from Cuba. This was the closest the U.S and Soviet Union’s got to a nuclear war during the Cold

The two groups that were constructed became known as the libertarian conservatives and the new conservatives. While both remained Republican in value the two groups differed greatly. The libertarian conservatives, strongly opposed a strong, national government, as they demanded true freedom. As a result they desired great, individual autonomy and unrestricted capitalism, both means of unregulated and true freedom, a belief at the core of libertarian conservatism. In contrast, the new conservatives saw freedom "as first and foremost a moral condition", and that at certain times, the endless power of these freedoms may need to be minimized.They looked saw President Eisenhower as "not one of them" because he called for the continuation of New Deal programs. Programs that were against the classic Republican view, and the views of the two new Republican parties. Despite the fact that his view opposed that of the classic Republican view by expanding bureaucracy and limiting true freedom, he continued to carry out these programs. This earning him the infamous name among the Republicans as "not one of