The Early Post WWII Era: When American was "Great"?
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The Early Post-WWII Era: When America was “Great”? HST 3103 America in Crisis: 1929-1945 Kara Heitz
Transcript of The Early Post WWII Era: When American was "Great"?
The Early Post-WWII Era: When America was “Great”?
HST 3103 America in Crisis: 1929-1945
Kara Heitz
“The Greatest Generation”
The G.I. Bill
Redlining and Housing Discrimination
“A map of recent US Housing
and Urban Development data
shows segregated housing
patterns. Each dot represents
five people, with green
representing black residents
and orange representing
whites.” Image first published
by the BBC, www.bbc.com
Imagining the Late 1940s/Early 1950s
"Those Were The Days" Lyrics
Boy the way Glenn Miller PlayedSongs that made the Hit ParadeGuys like us we had it madeThose were the days.
Didn't need no Welfare statesEverybody pulled his weightgee our old LaSalle ran greatThose were the days
And you knew who you were thenGirls were girls and men were men
Mister, we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again
People seemd to be content$50 payed the rentFreaks were in a circus tentThose were the days
Take a little sunday spinTonight I'll watch the dogers winHave yourself a dandy day that cost you under a fin
Hair was short and skirts were longKate Smith really sung the songI don't know just what went wrong
THOSE WERE THE DAYS!
