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Group Task
Handouts A, B13, C, & D• Explain the changes that took place in
American society during the 1950s. Why do you think these values changed at this particular time?
• How did American values in the 1950s compare to those in the preceding time peirod?
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The GI Bill(Serviceman's Readjustment Act)• Loans to veterans for college, homes, businesses
Urban Flight to Suburbia• Baby Boomers
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Was life getting better for women in the 1950's?
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a "strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning" in American housewives' minds.
...the fact that many of the women who worked during the [first world] war filling jobs previously filled by men faced dismissal, discrimination, or hostility when the men returned, and that educators blamed overeducated, careerfocused mothers for the maladjustment of soldiers in World War II. Yet as Friedan shows,later studies found that overbearing mothers, not careerists, were the ones who raise maladjusted children.
