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Post–World War II baby boom - Video Learning - WizScience.com
The end of World War II brought a baby boom to many countries, especially Western ones. There is some disagreement as to the precise beginning and ending dates of the post-war baby boom, but it is most often agreed to begin in the years immediately after the war, ending more than a decade later; birth rates in the United States started to decline after 1957. In countries that had suffered heavy war damage, displacement of people and post-war economic hardship, such as Germany and neighboring Poland, the boom began some years later.
In May 1951, Sylvia Porter, a columnist for the "New York Post", used the term "boom" to refer to the phenomenon of increased births in post war America.
Leading-edge Baby boomers are now late middle age and entering senior years. In the economy, many ar...
published: 04 Sep 2015
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Post-World War II Economy Booms with Soldiers Return to U.S.
The period from the end of World War II to the early 1970s was a golden era of economic growth. $200 billion in war bonds matured, and the G.I. Bill financed a well-educated work force.
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The middle class swelled, as did GDP and productivity. This growth was distributed fairly evenly across the economic classes, which some attribute to the strength of labor unions in this period—labor union membership peaked historically in the U.S. during the 1950s, in the midst of this massive economic growth.
Worldwide digital video distribution by Janson Media http://www.janson.com
Much of the growth came from the movement of low income farm workers into better pay...
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US Post World War II Boom - The American Dream - Conformity - Boomers, "Teen" Agers - Urban Sprawl
Bill Levitt and the American Dream
Read: https://www.learner.org/series/biographyofamerica/prog23/transcript/page03.html
America also had this incredible economic abundance. We hadn't been hit by the war; our cities hadn't been pillaged, our cities hadn't been bombed. We had this tremendous surge of economic prosperity that began in 1941 and '42. And the GI Bill fed right into the mood of economic prosperity.
It was a bonanza, a social bonanza, one of the most important pieces of social legislation of the mid-20th century. It gave GIs the opportunity to do two things. It gave them money for education; it also provided money for down payments on homes. And they all wanted to marry, have children, and get into a decent American home.
The problem was, there was a terrible shortage of hous...
published: 14 Jul 2017
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The Baby Boom: The Postwar American Generation
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Post–World War II baby boom | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:10 1 Causes
00:06:04 2 By region
00:06:14 2.1 North America
00:08:52 2.2 Australia and New Zealand
00:09:24 2.3 British Isles
00:10:21 2.4 Western Europe
00:10:57 2.5 Southern Europe
00:11:20 2.6 Eastern Europe
00:11:39 2.7 Nordic countries
00:11:59 2.8 Asia and Africa
00:12:29 2.9 Latin America
00:13:03 3 See also
00:13:23 4 Bibliography
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Prof. Brian Domitrovic: Post-WWII Boom - Transition to a Consumer Economy
The American economy boomed in the years after World War II. Video created with the Bill of Rights Institute to help students ace their exams.
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Fast Facts About Baby Boomers | History
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Post–World War II baby boom - Video Learning - WizScience.com
The end of World War II brought a baby boom to many countries, especially Western ones. There is some disagreement as to the precise beginning and ending date...
The end of World War II brought a baby boom to many countries, especially Western ones. There is some disagreement as to the precise beginning and ending dates of the post-war baby boom, but it is most often agreed to begin in the years immediately after the war, ending more than a decade later; birth rates in the United States started to decline after 1957. In countries that had suffered heavy war damage, displacement of people and post-war economic hardship, such as Germany and neighboring Poland, the boom began some years later.
In May 1951, Sylvia Porter, a columnist for the "New York Post", used the term "boom" to refer to the phenomenon of increased births in post war America.
Leading-edge Baby boomers are now late middle age and entering senior years. In the economy, many are now retiring and leaving the labor force.
In 1946, live births in the U.S. surged from 222,721 in January to 339,499 in October. By the end of the 1940s, about 32 million babies had been born, compared with 24 million in the 1930s. In 1954, annual births first topped four million and did not drop below that figure until 1965, when four out of ten Americans were under the age of 20.
In the years after the war, couples who could not afford families during the Great Depression made up for lost time; the mood was now optimistic. During the war, unemployment ended and the economy greatly expanded; afterwards the country experienced vigorous economic growth until the 1970s. The G.I. Bill enabled record numbers of people to finish high school and attend college. This led to an increase in stock of skills and yielded higher incomes to families.
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The end of World War II brought a baby boom to many countries, especially Western ones. There is some disagreement as to the precise beginning and ending dates of the post-war baby boom, but it is most often agreed to begin in the years immediately after the war, ending more than a decade later; birth rates in the United States started to decline after 1957. In countries that had suffered heavy war damage, displacement of people and post-war economic hardship, such as Germany and neighboring Poland, the boom began some years later.
In May 1951, Sylvia Porter, a columnist for the "New York Post", used the term "boom" to refer to the phenomenon of increased births in post war America.
Leading-edge Baby boomers are now late middle age and entering senior years. In the economy, many are now retiring and leaving the labor force.
In 1946, live births in the U.S. surged from 222,721 in January to 339,499 in October. By the end of the 1940s, about 32 million babies had been born, compared with 24 million in the 1930s. In 1954, annual births first topped four million and did not drop below that figure until 1965, when four out of ten Americans were under the age of 20.
In the years after the war, couples who could not afford families during the Great Depression made up for lost time; the mood was now optimistic. During the war, unemployment ended and the economy greatly expanded; afterwards the country experienced vigorous economic growth until the 1970s. The G.I. Bill enabled record numbers of people to finish high school and attend college. This led to an increase in stock of skills and yielded higher incomes to families.
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Post-World War II Economy Booms with Soldiers Return to U.S.
The period from the end of World War II to the early 1970s was a golden era of economic growth. $200 billion in war bonds matured, and the G.I. Bill financed a ...
The period from the end of World War II to the early 1970s was a golden era of economic growth. $200 billion in war bonds matured, and the G.I. Bill financed a well-educated work force.
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The middle class swelled, as did GDP and productivity. This growth was distributed fairly evenly across the economic classes, which some attribute to the strength of labor unions in this period—labor union membership peaked historically in the U.S. during the 1950s, in the midst of this massive economic growth.
Worldwide digital video distribution by Janson Media http://www.janson.com
Much of the growth came from the movement of low income farm workers into better paying jobs in the towns and cities—a process largely completed by 1960. Congress created the Council of Economic Advisors, to promote high employment, high profits and low inflation. The Eisenhower administration (1953–1961) supported an activist contracyclical approach that helped to establish Keynesianism as a bipartisan economic policy for the nation. Especially important in formulating the CEA response to the recession—accelerating public works programs, easing credit, and reducing taxes—were Arthur F. Burns and Neil H. Jacoby. ""I am now a Keynesian in economics", proclaimed Republican President Richard Nixon in 1969. Although this period brought economic expanding to the country as whole, it was not recession proof.
The "Baby Boom" saw a dramatic increase in fertility in the period 1942–1957; it was caused by delayed marriages and childbearing during depression years, a surge in prosperity, a demand for suburban single-family homes (as opposed to inner city apartments) and new optimism about the future. The boom crested about 1957, then slowly declined.
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The period from the end of World War II to the early 1970s was a golden era of economic growth. $200 billion in war bonds matured, and the G.I. Bill financed a well-educated work force.
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The middle class swelled, as did GDP and productivity. This growth was distributed fairly evenly across the economic classes, which some attribute to the strength of labor unions in this period—labor union membership peaked historically in the U.S. during the 1950s, in the midst of this massive economic growth.
Worldwide digital video distribution by Janson Media http://www.janson.com
Much of the growth came from the movement of low income farm workers into better paying jobs in the towns and cities—a process largely completed by 1960. Congress created the Council of Economic Advisors, to promote high employment, high profits and low inflation. The Eisenhower administration (1953–1961) supported an activist contracyclical approach that helped to establish Keynesianism as a bipartisan economic policy for the nation. Especially important in formulating the CEA response to the recession—accelerating public works programs, easing credit, and reducing taxes—were Arthur F. Burns and Neil H. Jacoby. ""I am now a Keynesian in economics", proclaimed Republican President Richard Nixon in 1969. Although this period brought economic expanding to the country as whole, it was not recession proof.
The "Baby Boom" saw a dramatic increase in fertility in the period 1942–1957; it was caused by delayed marriages and childbearing during depression years, a surge in prosperity, a demand for suburban single-family homes (as opposed to inner city apartments) and new optimism about the future. The boom crested about 1957, then slowly declined.
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US Post World War II Boom - The American Dream - Conformity - Boomers, "Teen" Agers - Urban Sprawl
Bill Levitt and the American Dream
Read: https://www.learner.org/series/biographyofamerica/prog23/transcript/page03.html
America also had this incredible econ...
Bill Levitt and the American Dream
Read: https://www.learner.org/series/biographyofamerica/prog23/transcript/page03.html
America also had this incredible economic abundance. We hadn't been hit by the war; our cities hadn't been pillaged, our cities hadn't been bombed. We had this tremendous surge of economic prosperity that began in 1941 and '42. And the GI Bill fed right into the mood of economic prosperity.
It was a bonanza, a social bonanza, one of the most important pieces of social legislation of the mid-20th century. It gave GIs the opportunity to do two things. It gave them money for education; it also provided money for down payments on homes. And they all wanted to marry, have children, and get into a decent American home.
The problem was, there was a terrible shortage of housing for returning veterans.
Bill Levitt: "We believe that every family in the United States is entitled to decent shelter. We believe that private enterprise should provide that shelter insofar as it can..."
Bill Levitt was an amazing character. He's kind of the Henry Ford of the middle of the 20th century. Where Ford mass-produced Model T cars, Levitt mass-produced homes. And as a veteran, during World War II a sea-bee, building air bases out on the Pacific, Levitt came up with his dream of building an idyllic community for lower-middle-class, striving, upward-bound American GIs, who he knew would come out of the war with some opportunity, with the GI Bill. And he was there to take advantage of it.
So what Levitt does is he goes out to Long Island, on a stretch of potato fields, and he builds his ideal community. By the time it was finished, he had a complete community, 80,000 people, about 17-18,000 houses. And the key thing with these houses is they were inexpensive, and they were well built.
They were sturdy like the old Model T Fords and they even were produced like the Model T Fords. They were mass-produced. Levitt broke down the whole process, as Adam Smith would do with the division of labor, and he broke down the building process into 27 components. And he trained a team to do each component.
"These are the 36 men who built this house. Another day, another 40 houses." He even had one team that did nothing but bolt washing machines into the floor. He didn't build foundations, so that saved a lot of the costs.
When the house was up it cost around eight thousand dollars, and all you needed for a down payment was about ninety dollars. And Levitt threw in a free television set and washing machine. So this was perfect. And this is the real beginning of true suburbanization.
It all emerges, almost eureka-like, suddenly in the early 1950s. There was just this explosion of suburban growth. There were a legion of books being produced in the 1950s that attacked the homogenization and blandness of suburbia; bland people living in bland houses led by bland presidents like Eisenhower. But to Americans at that time who lived in places like Levittown, this was a great step upward.
It was a realization of the American dream. That if you worked hard, you could make it, and you could provide security for your family through a home. There was the expectation of that.
Eisenhower and the Cold War
In 1952, Eisenhower is elected president, and in a sense, becomes the perfect American President for the 1950s. Here was the great war hero, the general who commanded the troops at D-Day, the Supreme Allied Commander. And for a lot of Americans he's the perfect President, because this is an age when people don't want to tamper with too much, when reform goes off the agenda.
And he's also building deterrence to the Soviet Union. This was the beginning of the Cold War, an ideological war against a common enemy, international Communism. All Americans are united in the fact that the outside menace is Communism, godless Communism.
"And see how it spreads. Some areas were gobbled up; some became Russian-dominated satellites. In Europe, and in Asia..."
And you have to understand Communism is not just a military threat. This is a system that is antithetical to everything Americans hold dear. All right, we come out of the war; we're a tremendously prosperous nation. What's the root of that prosperity? Capitalism.
Communism threatens that. We're a God-fearing country. What does Communism stand for? Godlessness, okay.
So all the things that America was, an upwardly advancing, mobile, competitive, God-fearing, capitalist society, Russia isn't. And I think it's that feeling that we're being faced by that common threat that brings Americans together and creates this orthodoxy, homogeneity, tribalism, whatever you want to call it. And it's a glue that holds the culture together pretty strongly. And it can be in a sense pretty stifling for a lot of people, especially young people.
https://wn.com/US_Post_World_War_Ii_Boom_The_American_Dream_Conformity_Boomers,_Teen_Agers_Urban_Sprawl
Bill Levitt and the American Dream
Read: https://www.learner.org/series/biographyofamerica/prog23/transcript/page03.html
America also had this incredible economic abundance. We hadn't been hit by the war; our cities hadn't been pillaged, our cities hadn't been bombed. We had this tremendous surge of economic prosperity that began in 1941 and '42. And the GI Bill fed right into the mood of economic prosperity.
It was a bonanza, a social bonanza, one of the most important pieces of social legislation of the mid-20th century. It gave GIs the opportunity to do two things. It gave them money for education; it also provided money for down payments on homes. And they all wanted to marry, have children, and get into a decent American home.
The problem was, there was a terrible shortage of housing for returning veterans.
Bill Levitt: "We believe that every family in the United States is entitled to decent shelter. We believe that private enterprise should provide that shelter insofar as it can..."
Bill Levitt was an amazing character. He's kind of the Henry Ford of the middle of the 20th century. Where Ford mass-produced Model T cars, Levitt mass-produced homes. And as a veteran, during World War II a sea-bee, building air bases out on the Pacific, Levitt came up with his dream of building an idyllic community for lower-middle-class, striving, upward-bound American GIs, who he knew would come out of the war with some opportunity, with the GI Bill. And he was there to take advantage of it.
So what Levitt does is he goes out to Long Island, on a stretch of potato fields, and he builds his ideal community. By the time it was finished, he had a complete community, 80,000 people, about 17-18,000 houses. And the key thing with these houses is they were inexpensive, and they were well built.
They were sturdy like the old Model T Fords and they even were produced like the Model T Fords. They were mass-produced. Levitt broke down the whole process, as Adam Smith would do with the division of labor, and he broke down the building process into 27 components. And he trained a team to do each component.
"These are the 36 men who built this house. Another day, another 40 houses." He even had one team that did nothing but bolt washing machines into the floor. He didn't build foundations, so that saved a lot of the costs.
When the house was up it cost around eight thousand dollars, and all you needed for a down payment was about ninety dollars. And Levitt threw in a free television set and washing machine. So this was perfect. And this is the real beginning of true suburbanization.
It all emerges, almost eureka-like, suddenly in the early 1950s. There was just this explosion of suburban growth. There were a legion of books being produced in the 1950s that attacked the homogenization and blandness of suburbia; bland people living in bland houses led by bland presidents like Eisenhower. But to Americans at that time who lived in places like Levittown, this was a great step upward.
It was a realization of the American dream. That if you worked hard, you could make it, and you could provide security for your family through a home. There was the expectation of that.
Eisenhower and the Cold War
In 1952, Eisenhower is elected president, and in a sense, becomes the perfect American President for the 1950s. Here was the great war hero, the general who commanded the troops at D-Day, the Supreme Allied Commander. And for a lot of Americans he's the perfect President, because this is an age when people don't want to tamper with too much, when reform goes off the agenda.
And he's also building deterrence to the Soviet Union. This was the beginning of the Cold War, an ideological war against a common enemy, international Communism. All Americans are united in the fact that the outside menace is Communism, godless Communism.
"And see how it spreads. Some areas were gobbled up; some became Russian-dominated satellites. In Europe, and in Asia..."
And you have to understand Communism is not just a military threat. This is a system that is antithetical to everything Americans hold dear. All right, we come out of the war; we're a tremendously prosperous nation. What's the root of that prosperity? Capitalism.
Communism threatens that. We're a God-fearing country. What does Communism stand for? Godlessness, okay.
So all the things that America was, an upwardly advancing, mobile, competitive, God-fearing, capitalist society, Russia isn't. And I think it's that feeling that we're being faced by that common threat that brings Americans together and creates this orthodoxy, homogeneity, tribalism, whatever you want to call it. And it's a glue that holds the culture together pretty strongly. And it can be in a sense pretty stifling for a lot of people, especially young people.
- published: 14 Jul 2017
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The Baby Boom: The Postwar American Generation
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Today's Daily Dose short history film covers the American baby boom, wherein 74.6 million people were added to the American population in the first two post-war decades after World War Two. The filmmaker has included the original voice over script to further assist your understanding:
Today on The Daily Dose, the American Baby Boom
Like many industrialized Western nations, in the early twentieth century the United States experienced a gradual decline in its birthrate, as more Americans moved off farms and into cities. Following victory in World War Two, the United States experienced an explosion in its birth rate, adding on average 4.24 million new babies to the population every year between 1946 and 1964. Known as baby boomers, the steady rise in youthful population was the results of a strong postwar economy, allowing American families to feel confident that they could support a larger number of children. Boomers also influenced the economy as a core marketing demographic for products tied to their age group, from toys to records.
After fifteen years of economic uncertainty brought about by the Great Depression followed by the economic drain caused by four years of American involvement in the war, soldiers who had survived World War Two returned home weary of adventure, with a unified desire to settle down into family life with their sweethearts. Combined with educational benefits provided by the GI Bill, access to good jobs and affordable housing, the boom was on almost the moment GIs hit American soil. While some couples rushed to wed and conceive children before soldiers shipped out to war, the real spike in marriages occurred after the war, when 2.2 million couples tied the knot in 1946 alone. With marriage came babies, and by the end of that same year, over 350,000 had been born. By the end of the 18-year-long baby boom period, 76.4 million lives had been added to the American landscape, constituting 40% of the population, which then stood at around 192 million.
When baby boomers came of age in the 1960s and early 1970s, they began to question the norms and values of their parent’s generation, including an unjust war in Southeast Asia, civil rights for African Americans and gender equality for women. The free love hippy movement joined hands with the psychedelic drug movement, fueled by Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters on the west coast, while Timothy Leary became the acid guru on the east coast of America. After Les Paul invented the electric guitar, amplified rock n roll ran in direct conflict with the gentle dance tunes favored by the wartime parents of the baby boom generation. Today, now that boomers haves in affect become their parents, an estimated 73 million baby boomers have reached or are approaching retirement age, placing added stressors on the nation’s social security pension system, healthcare costs and senior living expenses, making baby boomers the largest gray wave in American history.
And there ya have it, the American baby boom, today on The Daily Dose.
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Today's Daily Dose short history film covers the American baby boom, wherein 74.6 million people were added to the American population in the first two post-war decades after World War Two. The filmmaker has included the original voice over script to further assist your understanding:
Today on The Daily Dose, the American Baby Boom
Like many industrialized Western nations, in the early twentieth century the United States experienced a gradual decline in its birthrate, as more Americans moved off farms and into cities. Following victory in World War Two, the United States experienced an explosion in its birth rate, adding on average 4.24 million new babies to the population every year between 1946 and 1964. Known as baby boomers, the steady rise in youthful population was the results of a strong postwar economy, allowing American families to feel confident that they could support a larger number of children. Boomers also influenced the economy as a core marketing demographic for products tied to their age group, from toys to records.
After fifteen years of economic uncertainty brought about by the Great Depression followed by the economic drain caused by four years of American involvement in the war, soldiers who had survived World War Two returned home weary of adventure, with a unified desire to settle down into family life with their sweethearts. Combined with educational benefits provided by the GI Bill, access to good jobs and affordable housing, the boom was on almost the moment GIs hit American soil. While some couples rushed to wed and conceive children before soldiers shipped out to war, the real spike in marriages occurred after the war, when 2.2 million couples tied the knot in 1946 alone. With marriage came babies, and by the end of that same year, over 350,000 had been born. By the end of the 18-year-long baby boom period, 76.4 million lives had been added to the American landscape, constituting 40% of the population, which then stood at around 192 million.
When baby boomers came of age in the 1960s and early 1970s, they began to question the norms and values of their parent’s generation, including an unjust war in Southeast Asia, civil rights for African Americans and gender equality for women. The free love hippy movement joined hands with the psychedelic drug movement, fueled by Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters on the west coast, while Timothy Leary became the acid guru on the east coast of America. After Les Paul invented the electric guitar, amplified rock n roll ran in direct conflict with the gentle dance tunes favored by the wartime parents of the baby boom generation. Today, now that boomers haves in affect become their parents, an estimated 73 million baby boomers have reached or are approaching retirement age, placing added stressors on the nation’s social security pension system, healthcare costs and senior living expenses, making baby boomers the largest gray wave in American history.
And there ya have it, the American baby boom, today on The Daily Dose.
- published: 07 Jul 2020
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Post–World War II baby boom | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:10 1 Causes
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00:06:14 2.1 North America
00:08:52 2.2 Australia and New Zealand
00:09:24 2.3 British Isles
00:10:21 2.4 Western Europe
00:10:57 2.5 Southern Europe
00:11:20 2.6 Eastern Europe
00:11:39 2.7 Nordic countries
00:11:59 2.8 Asia and Africa
00:12:29 2.9 Latin America
00:13:03 3 See also
00:13:23 4 Bibliography
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The middle of the 20th century was marked by a significant and persistent increase in fertility rates in many countries of the world, especially in the West, resulting in the famous baby boomer generation. Although the baby boom traditionally considered to be the post-war phenomenon started immediately after World War II, some demographers place it earlier, at the increase of births during the war or in the late 1930s.
The boom coincided with the marriage boom, a significant increase in nuptiality. The increase in fertility was driven primarily by decrease in childlessness and increase in parity progression to a second child. In most of the Western countries, progression to a third child and beyond declined which, coupled with aforementioned increase in transition to first and second child, resulted in higher homogeneity in family sizes. The baby boom was most prominent among educated and economically active women.The baby boom ended with the significant decline in fertility in 1960s and 1970s which was later called by demographers the baby-bust.
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00:01:10 1 Causes
00:06:04 2 By region
00:06:14 2.1 North America
00:08:52 2.2 Australia and New Zealand
00:09:24 2.3 British Isles
00:10:21 2.4 Western Europe
00:10:57 2.5 Southern Europe
00:11:20 2.6 Eastern Europe
00:11:39 2.7 Nordic countries
00:11:59 2.8 Asia and Africa
00:12:29 2.9 Latin America
00:13:03 3 See also
00:13:23 4 Bibliography
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- improves your listening skills
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- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.
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SUMMARY
=======
The middle of the 20th century was marked by a significant and persistent increase in fertility rates in many countries of the world, especially in the West, resulting in the famous baby boomer generation. Although the baby boom traditionally considered to be the post-war phenomenon started immediately after World War II, some demographers place it earlier, at the increase of births during the war or in the late 1930s.
The boom coincided with the marriage boom, a significant increase in nuptiality. The increase in fertility was driven primarily by decrease in childlessness and increase in parity progression to a second child. In most of the Western countries, progression to a third child and beyond declined which, coupled with aforementioned increase in transition to first and second child, resulted in higher homogeneity in family sizes. The baby boom was most prominent among educated and economically active women.The baby boom ended with the significant decline in fertility in 1960s and 1970s which was later called by demographers the baby-bust.
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Prof. Brian Domitrovic: Post-WWII Boom - Transition to a Consumer Economy
The American economy boomed in the years after World War II. Video created with the Bill of Rights Institute to help students ace their exams.
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The American economy boomed in the years after World War II. Video created with the Bill of Rights Institute to help students ace their exams.
This is the eighth video in a series of nine with Professor Brian Domitrovic, which aim to be a resource for students studying for US History exams, and to provide a survey of different (and sometimes opposing) viewpoints on key episodes in U.S. economic history.
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Top Three Myths about the Great Depression and the New Deal (video): Professor Steve Davies busts three common myths about the Great Depression, including the idea that World War II ended the Great Depression. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QLoeehMw0w
The Myth of U.S. Prosperity during World War II (FEE article): Robert Higgs explains that the idea that the US economy flourished during World War II is a myth and explains why we need to look beyond the unemployment rate and national output. https://fee.org/articles/the-myth-of-us-prosperity-during-world-war-ii/
Did the US provoke Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor? (blog post): Professor Yvonne Chiu explains how “economic warfare” contributed to Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. http://www.learnliberty.org/blog/did-the-us-provoke-japans-attack-on-pearl-harbor/
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The American economy boomed in the years after World War II. Video created with the Bill of Rights Institute to help students ace their exams.
This is the eighth video in a series of nine with Professor Brian Domitrovic, which aim to be a resource for students studying for US History exams, and to provide a survey of different (and sometimes opposing) viewpoints on key episodes in U.S. economic history.
SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/2dUx6wg
LEARN MORE:
Top Three Myths about the Great Depression and the New Deal (video): Professor Steve Davies busts three common myths about the Great Depression, including the idea that World War II ended the Great Depression. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QLoeehMw0w
The Myth of U.S. Prosperity during World War II (FEE article): Robert Higgs explains that the idea that the US economy flourished during World War II is a myth and explains why we need to look beyond the unemployment rate and national output. https://fee.org/articles/the-myth-of-us-prosperity-during-world-war-ii/
Did the US provoke Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor? (blog post): Professor Yvonne Chiu explains how “economic warfare” contributed to Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. http://www.learnliberty.org/blog/did-the-us-provoke-japans-attack-on-pearl-harbor/
TRANSCRIPT:
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- published: 25 May 2017
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14:38
Post–World War II baby boom
Post–World,War,II,baby,boom
The,end,of,World,War,II,brought,a,baby,boom,to,many,countries,,especially,Western,ones,There,is,some,disagreement,as,to,the,precise,...
Post–World,War,II,baby,boom
The,end,of,World,War,II,brought,a,baby,boom,to,many,countries,,especially,Western,ones,There,is,some,disagreement,as,to,the,precise,beginning,and,ending,dates,of,the,post-war,baby,boom,,but,it,is,most,often,agreed,to,have,begun,in,the,years,immediately,after,the,war,,ending,more,than,a,decade,later;,birth,rates,in,the,United,States,started,to,decline,after,1957
In,countries,that,had,suffered,heavy,war,damage,,displacement,of,people,and,post-war,economic,hardship,,such,as,Germany,and,neighboring,Poland,,the,boom,began,some,years,later
In,May,1951,,Sylvia,Porter,,a,columnist,for,the,New,York,Post,,used,the,term,"boom",to,refer,to,the,phenomenon,of,increased,births,in,post-war,America
Contents
1,In,the,United,States
11,Definition,of,the,boom,years
12,Historical,and,social,background
13,Marriage,rates
14,Family,sizes
15,Easterlin,models
2,In,Canada
3,In,Australia
4,In,the,United,Kingdom
5,European,and,South-Pacific,trends
6,See,also
7,Bibliography
8,References
81,Notes
In,the,United,States
Leading-edge,Baby,boomers,are,now,late,middle,age,and,entering,senior,years,In,the,ecpost,world,war,ii,baby,boom,Post–World,War,II,baby,boom
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https://wn.com/Post–World_War_Ii_Baby_Boom
Post–World,War,II,baby,boom
The,end,of,World,War,II,brought,a,baby,boom,to,many,countries,,especially,Western,ones,There,is,some,disagreement,as,to,the,precise,beginning,and,ending,dates,of,the,post-war,baby,boom,,but,it,is,most,often,agreed,to,have,begun,in,the,years,immediately,after,the,war,,ending,more,than,a,decade,later;,birth,rates,in,the,United,States,started,to,decline,after,1957
In,countries,that,had,suffered,heavy,war,damage,,displacement,of,people,and,post-war,economic,hardship,,such,as,Germany,and,neighboring,Poland,,the,boom,began,some,years,later
In,May,1951,,Sylvia,Porter,,a,columnist,for,the,New,York,Post,,used,the,term,"boom",to,refer,to,the,phenomenon,of,increased,births,in,post-war,America
Contents
1,In,the,United,States
11,Definition,of,the,boom,years
12,Historical,and,social,background
13,Marriage,rates
14,Family,sizes
15,Easterlin,models
2,In,Canada
3,In,Australia
4,In,the,United,Kingdom
5,European,and,South-Pacific,trends
6,See,also
7,Bibliography
8,References
81,Notes
In,the,United,States
Leading-edge,Baby,boomers,are,now,late,middle,age,and,entering,senior,years,In,the,ecpost,world,war,ii,baby,boom,Post–World,War,II,baby,boom
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- published: 15 Sep 2019
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