Bretton Woods economic conference

World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) founded

GI Bill (Servicemen’s Readjustment Act)

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

First Levittown built

Beginning of network television

Shelley v. Kraemer

Alfred Kinsey’s Sexual Behavior in the Human Male published

Billy Graham revival in Los Angeles

Bracero Program revived

Mattachine Society founded

McCarran-Walter Act

Kinsey’s Sexual Behavior of the Human Female published

Ray Kroc buys the first McDonald’s franchise

Daughters of Bilitis founded

National Interstate and Defense Highways Act

Elvis Presley’s breakthrough records

Allen Ginsberg’s poem “Howl” published

Peak of postwar baby boom

Eisenhower warns nation against military-industrial complex

Griswold v. Connecticut