US History-1940's and 1950's

Introduction One of the first thing staff Sergeant Samuel Goldenberg did when he returned from the Second World War was to make love to his wife Eve. One of her first questions was whether he had been unfaithful. Sam told her that only one man in his entire unit didn't fool around. The postwar booms: Business and Babies Baby Boom The baby boom was both a cause and an effect of prosperity. It was natural …

…better paying positions were reserved for men. In 1945 many women who wanted to remain in the factories and shipyards were pushed out to make way for returning veterans. Middle class America at Play TV enters the American Home Of the new luxuries, television was the most revolutionary in its effects. By 1950 television had loosened radio's grip on the American public. The number of households with TVs climbed from 8,000 in 1946 to 4 million in 1950, to 46 million in 1960.