Life+in+the+50's



Pros
 * Large economic and industrial boom during the time.
 * Housing industry took off.
 * Some new industries were created.
 * Plentiful job opportunities.
 * Large baby boom, which aided in fueling the economic boom.
 * Americans had gotten some spending money adding to the amount of consumers and allowing for a market of leisure goods to expand.
 * Polio vaccine was found in the later 50's.
 * No lack of workers in the Industries like during WWII
 * Suburbs expanded.
 * New technology and Scientific discoveries.

Cons
 * Polio epidemic plagued many Americans in the early 50's
 * Many were convicted of being Communist or blacklisted an their social lives and careers were ruined, even though they may have been innocent of such claims.
 * Red scare raged and caused domestic panic throughout America.
 * Many were harassed by anti-communist hysteria if thought to be communist.
 * China and North Korea both became communist countries, which now posed a threat to America due to the fact that the spread of communism had not been stopped.
 * Soviet Union detonated its first Atomic bomb which stated that America was no longer the only country to have Atomic bombs and greatly frightened America.