Decade - 1950s

There was an economic boom in the 50's and children who earned money did not need to give it to the head of household, so spent it on themselves. This made family patterns change as children were able to have more freedom and companies made products specifically for them.

Answer Can you be more specific? This question would require an extremely long answer even if it was limited to Aviation category, which would include missiles, engines, guns, bombs, and a host of other new products invented in those 30 years.

No, it was a time where people were really interested in bowling as a sport.

It was just like the "baby boom" when soldiers returned from war, the had a lot of babies. The "Bowling boom" was a rise in bowling popularity.

The Federal Highway Aid Act of 1956 and the GI Bill (also known as the Servicemen's Readjustment Act) helped transform American life in the 1950s.

The Little Oscars were awarded from he 1930s through the 1950s to juvenile players in film. In addition, Edgar Bergan was awarded a wooded Oscar with a movable mouth, and Walt Disney was awarded one full sized statuette and seven miniatures for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

Yes, for example all of the invisible volunteer efforts such as being a homemaker fall into the quinary sector.

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I think he was a good person but im still not sure if he was a mass murderer or not but i dont think so.

War thunder is a flight combat simulation game. You can play as one of 5 nations, USA, Germany, USSR, Great Britain and Japan.They have planes from WW1 to around the Korean war. It's a free game that you can download.

it built long-term resentment against the united states

Approximately 12,000 people died during what is known as the Malayan Emergency, which lasted for just over 12 years. It began in 1948 and ended in 1960.

It wasn't until the late 1940s that kids were called "teenagers." Zoot suits (like the one in the movie "Mask" with Jim Carey), bobby-soxers, soda shops (young men working behind the counters were called, "soda jerks.") There were "sock hops" and the dancing style was "Jitter Bug" similar to the Jive dances of the 1950s. It was also the big band era and the likes of Benny Goodman would get the teenagers up and jitter bugging. Teenagers also learned to ballroom dance! Those teenagers that were lucky enough to have a car had a "jalopy" which was basically a beat-up old car that they learned how to work on and brought back to life. To this day in antique car shows you can still see some of these magnificent jalopies.

1940s EDUCATION: If you stepped into a 1940s classroom you'd see girls making dresses, hats, learning to do laundry in the correct way and beauty culture and boys trained hard in physical education (football as well) which really kept the boys in shape for war. Educators knew that young people and their parents would choose school over work only if it served a practical purpose. In response, schools offered vocational and commercial courses from dress-making to bookkeeping. Growing numbers of young people soon filled technical schools. Schools taught lessons in family life, hygiene and health. If a student wasn't gaining anything from a college-prep curriculum they were given "life adjustment eduction." In 1940, 8 out 10 boys who graduated from school went to war and more than half of the population of the U.S. had completed no more than 8th grade. In 1945 50% of 17 year olds were high school graduates. Today, more than 13 million teenagers report to public high school classes across the U.S.

The Slimy and Atrocious Torture (SAT) began in 1941. They were used as a screening device for college admission and originally as an Army intelligence test. The SATs are a major part of today's teenager's life. To get into a good college you need to do well on the SAT, considering 60% of today's jobs require training beyond high school compared to just 20% in the 1940s. Some schools in the U.S. during the 1940s a gym and the music room, the cafeteria, library and the chemistry labs.

AFTER SCHOOL DUTIES & FAMILY LIFE: The father was usually employed, a stay at home mother, and two school-aged children or more. Families actually sat down for dinner and connected with each other and Sundays were a day of rest for the families to spend quality time with each other. This profile only fits 5% of U.S. families today. During the 1940s teenagers and their parents were very close. Some parents who supported the war effort left their teenagers unattended and could rely on them to take care of the duties at home. After school in the 1940s a teenager would go home, change clothes and to to work. If your family was poor, you would work hard after school or you did not even get to go to school, but worked all day and all of your earnings would go to the family. There were not a lot of high-paying jobs available and some jobs paid 25 cents an hour as a bus boy in a restaurant which added up to $5 a week and was considered fairly good money. Girls would often work at the YMCA as a locker room attendant for 66 cents an hour. Teaching swimming, working at a pizza place, working in warehouses or as waitress'. There were delivery boys at the fish market, soda jerks and ushers in theaters.

NO SEX, JUST MARRIAGE: In the 40s girls seldom could date until they were 16 and had to be home early. The parents ACTUALLY MET the young man and he'd better have good manners and bring their daughter home at the time agreed upon and in good shape! Teenagers never lived with their boyfriends, but dated and yes, there were "lover's lanes" and this is where the term "submarine races" was dubbed. The code between the kids was, "We're going submarine watching." There were some girls who became unwed mothers during this time, but they were either whisked away to homes for unwed mothers or sent off to a relatives home in another town or State. Girls that smoked, had sex got a bad reputation and were classified as "easy" and snubbed by her peers and neighbors. It wasn't until the mid-40s when the likes of Bette Davis and other actors were seen smoking on the silver screen that many young women took up smoking and it became acceptable.

Because of WW2 there was rationing and victory gardens on the home front. There were scrap (metal) drives, war bond drives and stamps for food or shoes. Young boys with their wagons and teenagers would go from house-to-house collecting aluminum of any sort or any other metals. The average gasoline ration was 3 gallons a week; the yearly butter ration was 12 lbs. per person 26% less than normal the yearly limit for canned goods 33 lbs., 13 lbs. under usual consumption levels; and people could buy only 3 new pairs of shoes a year.

Even with war pending teenagers were still in a era of innocence and family values.

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Before the advent of Vatican II and the musical changes which were allowed thanks to the legislation and documents therein the music of the church was Gregorian chant, Polyphonic Chant, and Hymns.

Settings of the mass (i.e. Introit, kyrie, credo, communion...) were generally speaking Gregorian chant (which while it bears the name of Pope St. Gregory the Great, was not neccisarily written by him) which was written mainly by individuals whos names we do not know in the early middle ages. Some masses in particularly well to do parishes with great choirs would sing polyphonic mass settings which were written by individuals such as Victoria, Lobo, Cardoso, Talis, Orlando, and (most famously) Palestrina. These were composed in the florid polyphonic style of the Rennaissance. After the rennaissance, and due to the decrees in the Council of Trent, the development of new music for actual use in mass stopped. There were many composers who write settings for the mass. The one thing which was allowed to continue was the writing of organ music, and as a result we have many masses written by great composers (Beethoven, Bach, and some other B names).

Hymns were the only form of music allowed at mass which were in the common tongue of the people (As opposed to latin). These hymns could be composed by almost anyone, however generally speaking had to have been printed and given ecclesiastical approval. If you are interested in hymns, as opposed to mass settings, then consulting any of the older hymnbooks and looking for any hymns composed before the 1960's. This is the kind of music which would have most likely been used as the hymns at masses.

Chicago had always been an ethnic town. It was an industrial town and there were jobs to be had. The south side from Rosevelt Road on south was mostly black n then 1950s and as far west as Pulaski street. This is due largely to the "great migration" of blacks from the south by the Illinois Central Railroad which stopped at the 26th street station. That is where live in Chicago began for black immigrants.

North Avenue was Italian from Wells St. to Harlem Ave and the entire near north side. It had excellent restaurants, markets, and merchants of all kind and manor ot things Italian. The Italians "got" the Streets and Sanitation Department of the Chicago city government and also state of Illinois Highway Department. That was theirs for patronage.

Italian Americans were heavily represented in River Forest, Schiller Park, Franklin Park, Rosemont and later DuPage County places like Bensenville, Wheaton, Elmhurst, etc.

Maxwell Street always was Jewish. It had incredible competition and you could buy almost anything you wanted for an excellent prive. It was not a place where you'd hang out for any other reason (no great restaurants or personal activities or theater). It was only shops (many tailors).

Rogers Park was also Jewish from Devon Ave to Howard Street and from the Lake Shore to McCormick Blvd. Skokie was also Jewish and so was Lincolnwood. Jewish ethnicity was also well represent in Golf, Park Ridge, Hyde Park, parts of the western suburbs (like Oak Park). There were some decent Jewish deli's in Skokie including "Mr. Rickies" on Gross Point Rd. near Skokie Blvd. Old Orchard shopping center opened in 1953 and was kind of Jewish.

The Czech community was along Cermak Road (22nd Street) through Cicero and Berwyn. There was a Lituanian community (called "Lugans" beyond that .. toward Mannheim Road.

Polish Americans were most concentrated near "six corners" where Milwaukee Avenue crossed Cicero Avenue. There was a large Sears store there and a lot of "Polish jokes" centered around the Sears Store, Cicro Avenue and the Olson Rug Co. had a carpet factory which had a cigar store Indian and a Waterfall -- they called it the "Polish Niagra Falls."

There were also a number of jokes about a Polish preference for pink flamencos made of wook and inserted into the front lawn. There was no end to the humor about the flamencos.

Polish American neighborhoods extended from The Polish National Alliance area (Milwaukee and Division street) well into Niles and later on out Milwuakee AVenue as far as Half Day. There wer ea LOT of Poles in Chicago.

Various white ethnics lived in Blue Island and Stoeny Island and the big joke around Chicago was to say "I spent the weekend in the islands .. Stony Island and Blue Island" (laugh).

There was a small German neighborhood on Lincoln near Belmont and Ashland. There were some German bakeries and taverns. But Germans were distributed athroughout Chicago and there were many fine German restaurants, bakeries, and taverns.

Greeks concentrated on Halsteed Street going south from Randolph Street. They had many Greek restaurants with authentic Greek dancing and dishes. There was also and "Athens on Rush." Greeks owned many restaurants in Chicago including Elliott's Pine Log, Vosnos. The served excellent cuisine.

There was a substantial Appalachina concentrations in "uptown" centered around Broadway and Wilson during the late 50's and 60's. That later changed. It also had a high concentration of single adults and college students.

There were a lot of Irish in Chicago and apparently the Irish neighborhoods were on the south side near the "Back of Yards" area. I was not tha fmailiar with those areas. Mayor Daley was from that area (everybody liked Mayor Daley he seemed to epitomize Chicagoans.)

Well that's it. Someone else can take it from here. I left Chicago in the late 60's and was in other areas of the country.

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The British started the imperialism back in the 1880's.It started when the British had 25% of the empire.

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The Contract Act of 1950 was enacted In Malaysia. Section 11 is "Who are Competent to Contract." It states:

"Every person is competent to contract who is of the age of

majority according to the law to which he is subject, and who is of

sound mind, and is not disqualified from contracting by any law to

which he is subject."

Mikan was Mr. Basketball of the 1950s George Mikan George Mikan

The idea from the 1950s that inspired the counterculture movement of the 1960s was the violation of African-American Civil Rights.

the minority french speaking community was relatively rich and powerful.they were economically developed and were educated .much later only the dutch got economic development and education .this led tensions between the dutch and french speaking community during the 1950s and 1960s .