It can be safe to say that coming into the 1950s Americans had to be content with the outlook of their futures. The 1940s had been bloody, and the scars were only beginning to heal from the devastation of the Second World War. Our soldiers had returned to fan fare and victory celebrations, but also a changed country. These changes took awhile to appear and that’s what the 1950s were, an era in which change and growth in our country can be seen more readily, and on a macro scale evermore than before.

The year 1950 did present several setbacks that may have stifled growth at the beginning of the decade. The communist threat that terrified the United States was plaguing Americans, not only from a far, but also

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