THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE COLD WAR
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the growth of the middle class during the post World War II period
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Greater economic opportunities found in the suburbs
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the availability of comfortable and efficient railroad transportation from suburban to urban centers
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The end of World War II led to a boom in the growth of suburbs. Returning soldiers were ready to settle down and start families and the government provided low interest loans to help them buy houses. Between 1950 and 1956 suburbs grew by 46% and thousands of acres of farmland and forest were tuned into suburbs.
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: -Between 1940 and 1950, suburban communities with more than ten thousand people grew 22.1 percent, and planned communities grew at an astonishing rate of 126.1 percent.
Detailed explanation-4: -One way they did that was by moving out of the cities and into newly developed suburban communities. In fact, the suburbs expanded by 47% during the 1950s. Levittown in Long Island, New York, was one of the first to introduce the idea of a pre-planned, mass-produced uniform suburban community.