Happy+Days

Good: - Economy Boom ( automobile industry took off, plastics, frozen foods, and consumer devises like air conditioners ) ( US was supplying 65% of the worlds manufactured goods) - Low cost housing and education loans to returning servicemen - Better highway systems - Boom in population fueled the U.S. industry - Technologic advances ( televisions, dishwashers, garbage disposals, lawn mowers, and plastic items) - American Science blossomed ( medical research projects, developing of space programs, antibiotics used more often ) - Creation and developing of military missiles - Record School attendance levels - Social Security developed - Eisenhower elected

Bad: - Fear of Communism ( Red Scare ) - McCarthyism ( Hysteria ) - Fear of Atomic Bombs - Korean War - Creation and developing of military missiles - Severe housing shortage - Women were tagged as people who were only supposed to work at home