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Chapter Timeline

CHAPTER REVIEW

TIMELINEAsk yourself why this chapter begins and ends with these dates and then identify the links among related events.
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

Question

KEY TURNING POINTS: What were the major turning points in the creation of postwar suburbia?