Pros And Cons Of 1950-1970

After the Second World War, the subsequential years of 1950-1970 were among the most debated times of American History. In a more modern era, there are historian that claimed that the 1950’s should be viewed as a decade of prosperity, confromity, and consensus; and also that the following decade of the year 1960s should be seen as a time of turbulence, protest and disillusionment. These descriptions accurately portrayed the majority of the feelings of the American people during this period, but like any other, there are few exceptions.

The Long economic boom of 1950-1970, gave the nickname of prosperity to the 1950’s. The National gross product of the United States began to climb gradually in 1948, and beginning 1950s, the American economy

The Federal Housing Administration that was created as part of the National Housing Act of 1934, which set standards for construction and underwriting and insuring loans made by banks for home building made it even easier for people to move to the suburbs, because they guaranteed home-loans and also made it more economically appealing to own a home in the suburbs than to rent an apartment in the cities. Plus tax reductions in interest payments on home mortgages provided additional financial support for the buyers. The government took this opportunity to build highways as a military strategy, but also to provide efficient routes for people whose jobs are further away from the suburban homes (Doc.

Plastic credit cards were first introduced in 1949, all due to diner’s clubs, and later McDonald’s hamburger became popular, and later in 1955 Disneyland opened it’s doors in California. What was crucial in the development of such life stye was the rapid increase of the new technology of television. And by the 1960s about every American home had one in display. Television also started the commmercialization of proffessional sports, which can now be viewed in the homes instead of the stadium, where audiences once stood. Sport also reflected a shift in population toward the South and the West. Popular music emerged during this era, and it dramatically transfromed in the fifties, when Elvis Presley, a white singer, that fused black rhythms and blues with white bluegrass and country style music in order to form a new style call “rock and roll”. Listening and dancing to it became a type of religious rite in the 1950s. Influenced by fame, fortune, and drugs, he died in 1977 at age 42. Movie star Marilyn Monroe also helped to populatize and commercialize the new standards of sexuality, and so did the Playboy magazine, when they first publish in 1955 (Doc.