Women played a great role during this era, socially and culturally. Their wartime duty to produce the goods needed for victory was replaced with their postwar obligation to withdraw from the labor force and attend to their homes and subject there husbands to the jobs they were performing. Although, this was a negative anticipation at the time and made women view government cynically, but gave them a chance to prove their worth and rights. Making history and changing every woman after her time. These affects of the war also caused massive migration of families into urban industrial centers. Created tremendous instability in the home life and personal lives, teen dropouts and child deliquesce. The divorce rate also tripled when soldiers came back home (1946).

Daily habits and even values of ordinary people changed as the economy became more service-oriented and the opportunity to buy a host of new products intensified the growth of culture based consumption. The television itself develo

In America, many minorities found themselves part of the civil rights movement, African Americans conducted the most dramatic challenge to the status que of the post war era, as they sought to break the chains that had replaced the literal bonds of slavery.

The new "witch hunt" created a climate of fear, stifling expression that did not conform to mainstream beliefs. No individual exceeded Joseph McCarthy in his zeal to purge the United States of nonconformists. So great was his influence that the term McCarthyism became synonymous with the anti-Communist crusade, even though the hysteria ranged far beyond the senator's activities. The obsession with subversion also fed on popular frustrations over the failure of containment to produce clear-cut victories. Convulsing the nation in bitter disunity, McCarthyism reflected a loss of confidence in American power. It would be a major challenge of the next administration to restore that unity and confidence.

Economic productivity increased enormously, a multitude of new products came on the market, consumption became the order of the day, and millions of Americans moved to the suburbs. Prosperity also enabled more young people than ever to stay in school, and higher education became the norm for the middle class.

The cold war erupted into a shooting war in June 1950, when troops from Communist North Korea invaded South Korea. For the first time, Americans went into battle to implement containment.

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