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