50sHappyDays

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 * USSR detonated its 1st A bomb
 * Communism is gaining ground when it attacks the Korea's.
 * War was never declared.
 * 2.5 million dead from this war.
 * Truman started a department who could investigate whether there were communists in the government of the US.
 * Senator McCarthy was finding people who were thought of as being a communist to court before the Senate.
 * Everyone was hurt from these trials.
 * McCarthy ruining daily lives of Americans.
 * An out break of Polio.
 * President Truman made sure that McCarthy was stopped from commencing his acts.
 * The kids were being taught what to do when there is a nuclear bomb attack on the US.
 * Economy was booming.
 * The housing industry exploded.
 * William Levitt built houses that could be rented or bought.
 * When the soldiers came back from war they often got married and had children.
 * The children were known as baby boomers.
 * When the war was open the economy was strong so people started to produce more goods for the people on the home front like cars and frozen foods.
 * When the US defeated Hitler the country felt that nothing could stop them and the sky was the limit.
 * The doctors began giving patients antibiotics for their sicknesses.
 * The space race began when the USSR launched Sputnik.
 * Congress passed the National Defense Education Act which poured 1 billion dollars into NASA.
 * GIs went to work and collage.