2- Impact Of WW2

Question 1

What did ww2 enable the USA to do?

Answer 1

Expand industrial and military complexes- created many jobs and ended unemployment.
Many African Americans and women were now able to get jobs.

Question 2

What did conscription resolve?

Answer 2

Resolved unemployment. 16 million men and women served in the US armed forces

Question 3

How many people unemployed in 1944 compared to 1939

Answer 3

670,000 in 1944, 9.5 million in 1939

Question 4

What did war bonds being cashed in lead to?

Answer 4

A surge in house building (low interest rates for servicemen),
Rationing left behind(consumer goods being bought),

Question 5

What was the American average standard of living compared to Britains in 1960

Answer 5

American 3x Britain

Question 6

Where did many middle class families move to and why

Answer 6

The suburbs, it was a place to own your own home and raise a family away from danger

Question 7

What was the first suburb

Answer 7

Levittown on Long Island

Question 8

What did luxuries become

Answer 8

Necessities

Question 9

How much did the baby boom increase the population by

Answer 9

40 million

Question 10

How many people owned homes by 1960

Answer 10

33 million