CONTENT STATEMENT
The postwar economic boom and advances in science and technology, produced changes in American life.
CONTENT ELABORATION
In the decades following World War II, the United States experienced an era of unprecedented prosperity and economic growth. Several factors that contributed to this prosperity and economic growth included:
increased demand for goods and services;
- growth of suburbs; and
- the Baby Boom.
Advances in science and technology following the war also impacted American life in several ways including:
- medicine (e.g., polio vaccine, birth control pill);
- nuclear power plants;
- transportation (e.g., passenger jet plane, automobiles); and
- television.
EXPECTATIONS FOR LEARNING
Describe how American life in the postwar period was impacted by the post-World War II economic boom and by advances in science and technology.