USA HISTORY

POST WAR WORLD 1946 1959

KOREAS PARTITION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
After the war, people left cities and began to live in the ____
A
suburbs
B
country
C
cities
D
towns
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -However, the end of World War II brought about a new social phenomenon known as the suburbs. These residential communities were sought out by many city residents because they wanted to escape their crowded neighborhoods and find lower cost of land and housing. This occurrence is known as suburban sprawl.

Detailed explanation-2: -Racial fears, affordable housing, and the desire to leave decaying cities were all factors that prompted many white Americans to flee to suburbia.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mass migration to suburban areas was a defining feature of American life after 1945. Before World War II, just 13% of Americans lived in suburbs.

Detailed explanation-4: -Suburbanization, or Suburbanisation, is a population shift from central urban areas into suburbs, resulting in the formation of (sub)urban sprawl. As a consequence of the movement of households and businesses out of the city centers, low-density, peripheral urban areas grow.

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