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1 Rock N’ Roll Marshall Plan Korean War Arms Race Truman Doctrine Beat Movement Cold War Expansion of Educational facilities Pop Culture movies Baby Boom Young couples Had 3,4 or 5 children Economic Boom in the 1950s Planned obsolescence Huge demand For baby needs franchise Consumer Products Television appliances IHS Act 1956- -two car families -41,000 miles of highways Suburban Growth By 1960 50 million Car becomes Necessity Entertainment & advertising Home became Focus for all activity

2 Levittown William Levitt offered affordable housing to returning GIs and their families Suburbia life was discovered Presented a new form of ideal America life

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