... longwise and placed along the length of the car. This added a long and inviting eating counter that ran down the middle that both added to social aspect of the diner and the production standpoint. More people could fit in the diner and be served more quickly while the long counter aloud conversations ... everything from the doors and counters to the coffee urns and cigarette machines. However, this commodity would soon disappear once the need for steel became a nationwide event for the war. This design is a direct reflection of what pre-war diners would aiming for and leading up to. The...

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... , and for the first time, whites began to choose the black versions of songs. He "shattered musical barriers and helped begin a national music craze" (Gillon, 207). Summer of 1953, Elvis Presley walked into Sun Records owned by Sam Phillips to record a record, but he had no idea his music was about to change the course of history. Elvis was ... drink, he was religious, and he was always polite. He was giving teenagers a way to rebel, and at the same time he was promoting "a cultural intermingling at a time when social mixing was still illegal" (Gillon, 213). Elvis helped bond blacks and ...

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... parties in a Salem-Witch hunt style attempt to rid the nation of communism. Church leaders, especially Catholic, were outspoken against Communism. America wanted capitalism to be the primary economic and social structure of the world. The Cold War was a stand off between the Russians and Americans. The Cold War had three stages. The first was containment, fathered by George Kennan. This ... set up a communist government in North Korea under Kim Il-Sum, while the South set up a democracy under Sigmon Rhee. On June 25, 1950, North Korea overran South Korea. In 1953, the war ended with 54,...

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• Approx Pages: 24
• Grade Level: High School