TIMELINE

1944

  • Bretton Woods economic conference

  • World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) founded

  • GI Bill (Servicemen’s Readjustment Act)

1946

  • First edition of Dr. Spock’s Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care

1947

  • First Levittown built

1948

  • Beginning of network television

  • Shelley v. Kraemer

  • Alfred Kinsey’s Sexual Behavior in the Human Male published

1949

  • Billy Graham revival in Los Angeles

1951

  • Bracero Program revived

  • Mattachine Society founded

1952

  • McCarran-Walter Act

1953

  • Kinsey’s Sexual Behavior of the Human Female published

1954

  • Ray Kroc buys the first McDonald’s franchise

1955

  • Daughters of Bilitis founded

1956

  • National Interstate and Defense Highways Act

  • Elvis Presley’s breakthrough records

  • Allen Ginsberg’s poem “Howl” published

1957

  • Peak of postwar baby boom

1961

  • Eisenhower warns nation against military-industrial complex

1965

  • Griswold v. Connecticut