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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. R**ead "The Fifties" in __Creating America__ (28-3, pp. 800-803), read over the ABC-CLIO links posted below, and w****atch the videos below.** 
 * FOR HOMEWORK, CREATE A LIST (IN YOUR ONLINE NOTEBOOK) OF POSITIVES AND NEGATIVES CONCERNING LIFE IN THE FIFTIES FOR CLASS ON THURSDAY. WE WILL USE IT TO WRITE SOME DIALOGUE ...**

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

** · The U.S. was a big supplier of manufactured goods · Living/ household conditions were getting better · Huge population boom · Many worker’s wages were increasing because of changes in the law and in government regulations · Increase of jobs · Technology is starting to evolve into important things · There started to be more treatments and vaccines that work · New establishments with the space program · Birth rate was up · Increased health care || · People were scared of communism (red scare) · Lots of hysteria because of McCarthy · Fear of atomic bomb · A “blacklist” was going around with names of suspected communists · The Soviet Union had the first satellite up in space leading to a global embarrassment for the United States · There was a housing shortage because soldiers need places to live · Prices for housing increased · Minorities were still not treated as equals · Because of the large numbers of babies being born, public schools had a hard time with record attendance levels || =CONVERSATION OF HAPPY DAYS:=  Whats buzzin cousin? How about all those music stars like Elvis, Little Richard and Chuck Berry..
 * Happy Days? Positive and Negative
 * POSITIVE || NEGATIVE ||
 * · The U.S. economy was very prosperous

That is true, but many there were too many ankle-biters being born. Because of that, public schools were having a hard time with record attendance levels.

Yea, but the many ankle-biters being born led to increased healthcare

McCarthy caused lots of hysteria and people went ape because of him making blacklists of people who suspected of being communists There are many more gigs available and people are getting higher wages

But, the shortage of houses because of soldiers needing homes, led to increased house prices

When the Soviet Union was first to get a satellite in space, it was a huge embarrassment for the United States But because of the new establishments in the US space program we were able to surge ahead in the space race. Although that is good, the minorities such as African Americans and Latinos are not getting equal treatment like they should But that is going to happen in the future because of the Civil Rights movement and their persistence for equality