Transformation of American Society After World War 2

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Subject Area:History

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Many factors and industries played a huge role in achieving this transformation. They include suburbanization, the GI. Bill, the automobile industry, racial experience and youth culture as well as consumerism and gender spheres. Religion also played a key factor in the transformation o the post-WWII U. S. Automobile Industry The automobile industry shifted from making war related products to making consumer goods such as automobiles. The G. I bill had made a greater number of people comfortable because they could afford to live in their own homes for the first time and it was in this era that there was a boom in the number of newborns (Bennett). The Americans could live comfortably and focus in nuclear family systems. The people working in the cities needed to move around and this was where the automobiles came in.

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