Transcript Changing Ways of Life 1945-1960

Changing Ways of Life
1945-1960
Chapter 24
Progress and
Change
Section 1
Words to Know
Automation: The use of machines to do jobs
once done by people
Service Industry: A business that does jobs for
other people
Baby Boom: A large increase in births,
especially in the United States, after WWII
Suburb: A community at the edge of a city
Helping Veterans
Pres. Truman and
other Americans
wanted to help
veterans who fought
in the war
Veterans needed:
education
jobs
housing
GI Bill of Rights
Passed in 1944:
Unemployment for one
year to each veteran
unable to find a job
Special loans to buy
houses or farms, or to
start a business
$500 a year for a college
education, plus money
for rent and food
Helped millions go to
college
Helped the economy
Growing Economy
Pres. Truman helped
change the economy
Factories must start
making things
families needed:
Cars
Refrigerators…
Money spent on these
items helped the
economy grow
Changes
American began
spending the money
they had saved during
the war:
Cars
Clothing
Food
Houses
Appliances
U.S. businesses created
more jobs to make the
goods
Changes cont.
U.S. businesses spent
money on factories and
machines to make more
goods:
Farmers also spent money
on machines to grow more
food
Unions helped workers get
higher pay:
Workers had more money
to spend
U.S. economy became the
biggest in the world
Changes at Work
Work changed because
of the growing
economy:
Automation:
Automation = faster
goods
Cut time to make a car
from 310 to 155 hours
Farmers could work
fewer hours:
produce more product,
quicker
Blue-Collar
Before the 1950’s,
most workers had
blue-collar jobs:
color
shirt/uniforms
worn by most
workers:
Factories
Farms
Mines
White-Collar
In the 1950’s:
More workers began to
have white-collar jobs:
(white shirts office
workers wore)
Service industry jobs:
Offices
Banks
Schools
Stores
Women
During the war:
a lot of women held
jobs outside the home
After the war:
Gov’t wanted
veterans to get their
jobs back
Many women left the
workplace to raise
their families
Family Life
Millions of veterans
and other
Americans started
families:
Baby boom
Between 1946 and
1964, U.S.
population had one
of its highest
growth rates
Homes
Families needed
homes
GI Bill made it
easier for veterans
to get loans
Not enough homes
to buy:
No space in the city
Suburbs
Large developments
(houses) built in the
suburbs
Workers commuted
Businesses followed
to the suburbs:
Shopping Malls
Cities Change
Suburbs grew = cities
losing population
Many skilled and
educated workers
moved out
Many poor and unskilled
people moved in:
Apartment buildings:
Poorly built
Became run-down
Health Care
Families living well:
Afraid of disease
Polio-left some children unable
to walk
1950’s-Jonas Salk and Albert
Sabin found a way to prevent
the disease
Health care improved during
this time
New antibiotics and vaccines
were developed to stop
diseases
New surgeries were developed