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That's a great question, don't you think? We will answer it in class on Thursday in a (hopefully) fun activity, but to prepare, we should do a little background reading and watching. **Watch the videos below, read over the ABC-CLIO links posted below, and read "The Fifties" in __Creating America__ (28-3, pp. 800-803).** 
 * FOR HOMEWORK, CREATE A LIST (EITHER IN PRINT OR ONLINE) OF POSITIVES AND NEGATIVES CONCERNING LIFE IN THE FIFTIES FOR CLASS ON THURSDAY!**

[|The Cold War at Home] / [|The Economy Booms] / [|The Sky is the Limit] / [|Boom-Time for Babies and Houses]


 * Positives:**

- Economy Boom ( automobile industry took off, plastics, frozen foods, and consumer devises like air conditioners ) ( US was supplying 65% of the worlds manufactured goods) - Low cost housing and education loans to returning servicemen - Better highway systems - Boom in population fueled the U.S. industry - Technologic advances ( televisions, dishwashers, garbage disposals, lawn mowers, and plastic items) - American Science blossomed ( medical research projects, developing of space programs, antibiotics used more often ) - Creation and developing of military missiles - Record School attendance levels - Social Security developed - Eisenhower elected


 * Negatives:**

- Fear of Communism ( Red Scare ) - McCarthyism ( Hysteria ) - Fear of Atomic Bombs - Korean War - Creation and developing of military missiles - Severe housing shortage - Women were tagged as people who were only supposed to work at home

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