Domestic Changes After Cold War
The Cold War, lasting from 1945 to 1991, was a period of time where the United States undertook a numerous amount of social, physical, and domestic changes. As the nations economy prospered due to the war, the citizens grew more comfortable with certain social modifications. In other words, the American state of mind changed which left the country vulnerable to various changes in domesticity. As the country furthered from the likelihood of economic depression, birth rates increased as well as marriages, the voice of the younger generations were finally heard, a counterculture blossomed, and citizens began leaving city slumps for suburbs. Following the Cold War, newly established domestic changes such as the uprise of suburbs, the Baby Boom, the Anti-War Movement, and the Counterculture promoted a new way of order in American social life. The creation of suburbs, or residential communities on the outskirts of cities, was an essential cornerstone for the blossoming and growth of society as a whole during the Cold War. Suburbs originated in the nineteenth century as a way for the upper class to escape out of the dirty, crowded, and dangerous cities. After World War II, suburbian homes became more accessible to modest-income families (Berg 781). The rise in suburbian households was mainly attainable through the use of mass production in Long Island, New York by developer, William J. Levitt. His method of housing allowed for small “cookie cutter” houses to be created for affordable prices in order to increase the amount sold. Suburbs were close enough to the citys so that many residents could still keep their city jobs. With this practice, thousands of American's flooded to suburbs and made them the norm. As many white residents left the crowded city slumps for suburbs, many blacks gained the opportunity to move into these unoccupied cities. Here, they found work. Living in suburbs however, did not completely disconnect the middle class from cities. The suburbs were