Decade - 1950s

The average cost for a gallon of milk was $1.00!

The vast majority of people would have been peasants/serfs so they would have got very little pay, and as such had very little disposable income. In towns you would have got some free-men who were able to work for their own money.

There wasn't that much difference in the jobs people did since pre-roman times right until the beginnings of the agricultural revolution. Most people would have been involved in to gathering /production of raw materials (like food) although there was a surprising amount of labour intensive industries, the major one probably being the textile trade, so growing flax (for linen) or keeping sheep was very important.

To help support people/industries there would have been potteries, and foundries (purify/process ores to make metals. the metal for swords and horseshoes came from somewhere!). It was found recently that Saxon metalworking was about the same quality/quantity as that of 16 C England. Many of the metal extraction/processing sites would have been in fairly inhospitable places like the Pennines/Wales/Lake District. MOST of these sites would have been small, and today there's usually very little physical evidence of them being there.

Stone would also have been extracted by quarry men. Stone masons would have been needed to dress/finish the stone.

In areas where there were thatched cottages (majority of places, stone simply being too costly for the common man) you would have got thatchers.

Most jobs were highly specialised, and covered a tiny part of what there modern equivalents are. There would have been "jobs" only for highly skilled people - such as bakers, leatherworkers, blacksmiths, carpenters, armorers, bowyers, fletchers, swordsmiths, shieldwrights, wainwrights, cobblers, weavers, millers, priests, tax collectors, and probably some manner of fortune tellers/sages. We can also include the minstrels or trubadours who got paid by telling stories with the use of music. Very few jack of all trades.

The exceptions would have been the growing of food (most people would have had a strip of land for growing the majority of their food, with little surplus), and blacksmiths or farriers(a blacksmith who concentrates on "stuff" for horses)

Carters or porters would have been the lorry drivers of the time.

Coastal regions might have had some fishing boats, and in larger ports, merchants..

A few people would be able to work as tutors to the children of the rich and powerful.

Sarah E. Goode was famous for inventing the cabinet bed and she was also famous for being the first African American women to receive the patent.

They began developing their own nuclear weapons and then in 1957 they put the worlds first satelite in space proving that they had the ability to deliver those weapons to any point on the planet. The first satelite was named Sputnik and it wasn't a weapon but it did show what the Soviet Union was capable of.

They tested their first atomic bombs

The Olympic Games were held twice in the 1950s. The first time was in 1952, and the second time was in 1956.

Apartments in the city were overcrowded

Well it helped the red scare along if that helps any. people became severely anti-communist and those who ran for office had "ousted" some people as communists, or accused the person they were running against of either being communist or supporting communism. McCarthy, if you know him, used this trick (claiming certain government officials and public office holders were communists) to get great political power.

You are probably referring to the Korean War, in which active military hostilities took place from 1950 to 1953. However, even in 2014, the Korean War is technically not over, since North and South Korea have never signed a peace treaty to end the war.

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Developments in technology affected television, availability for air travel, cars for every family (as it was a social status thing), improved home appliances, suburbs, mobility, media, and improved home appliances (like the washer, freezer, vacuum, etc.) made life easier.

Yes. All people over the age of 21 have had the vote since 1928. That equalised the votes of women. Black people in Britain have always had equal rights (Stifles laughing) under the law. The voting age is now 18. But the law in Britain has always been racially equal, officially at least, of course there has been racial discrimination, but Black people have never been disenfranchised.

The Beatniks were nonconformists, and there was really no organization nor leader to their cause. It started as a literary movement centered around the novels of Jack Kerouac and poet Allen Ginsberg. The "beat" life evolved into what was called a bohemian lifestyle. The center of the beatnik culture was New York's Greenwich Village, San Francisco's North Beach, and Venice, California. Beats rebelled against the intellectual erosion of the 1950s. They opted to avoid society and took no interest in politics, public life, or mainstream employment. They mocked America's love of materialism by wearing t-shirts and khaki trousers. They lived in sparsely furnished "pads," named because of the mattress on the floor. The Beats were highly intellectual, discovering obscure writers on all subjects, and embracing Zen Buddhism. Their music was jazz and they lived together without marriage.

The presence of veterans provided a boost to the economy in the 1950s through the GI Bill, which helped veterans get education, job training, and housing assistance. The baby boom also fueled economic growth as the increased population led to higher demand for goods and services, driving economic expansion.

Korean War 1950-1953. French Indochina War 1946-1954 (also known as the 1st Indochina War).

The Soviet Union dealt with uprisings in Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia during the 1950s and 1960s with wars. Many losses occurred when troops were brought in. Troops were ultimately deployed to deal with any type of uprising.

It refers to the separation between communist Eastern Europe and free Western Europe, coined by Winston Churchill in a speech at Westminster College on March 5, 1946.

The Yankees owned the 1950s. During the '50s the Yankees won the A.L. pennant eight times (every year except for 1954 and 1959) and the World Series six out of their eight appearances.

The two Series that they lost, they immediately got revenge the next year. In 1955, they lost to the Brooklyn Dodgers for the first and only time. Then, they beat the Dodgers in 1956. In 1957, they lost to the Milwaukee Braves and then they beat the Braves in 1958.

As a side note, including 1949, they won five straight World Series (1949 - 1953), unprecedented before or since then. In addition, from 1949 through 1964, a period of 16 years, the Yankees won the pennant 14 times. The Yankees are also the only team to have won 5 straight pennants and also 4 straight pennants.

The growth of suburbs offered many opportunities for entrepreneurs

Post WWII there was an expansion of population in Canada and the United States, as well as around the world. Therefore, there was a demand for more housing. Developers began building thousands of homes outside the cities where it was cheaper and were nicknamed "bedroom communities". Each community in the suburb was like a little town of its own. It had its own schools, parks, and places of worship. The building of suburbs also built a new set of values, which included the vision of the traditional family that usually had three to four children, the emphasized traditional femininity, the new gadgets for housework, and the father's role in bringing home the bacon. Suburbs became the new glamorous countryside. The suburbs were very popular do to the government giving the GI bill to vets of the World WarII and Korean war which helped them with morgage and college.

The food in the 1940's was very similar to the food that we eat today but less processed. Many people would enjoy eggs, toast, and cereal for breakfast just as we do today.

America's military involvement in Vietnam can be traced back to the Eisenhower years, 1950's. To Americans the conflict as well as the country seemed small and far away. Our goal through 3 successive Presidents was preserve South Vietnam against the Communist North, while limiting American casualties. But the war quickly escalated.

Cities became Poorer.

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McCarthy lost power when the press criticized him

it proved to be an ineffective tool against communism

Computers were used in the 1950's, some of the most important inventions for the development of computer happened in that decade. Magnetic data tape drives, and transistors, not to mention the first integrated circuit board. These buidling sized machines were used for anything from insurance companies to U.S Air Defense.

Retail prices of foods have increased significantly. Butter is one of the staple food items in most homes. In 1950 the cost of butter was $0.72.9 a pound.