Quality of Life revision
20s
- Roaring 20s
- Republican presidency – Laissez Faire
- Industrial growth – cars
- Wall Street crash
30s
- Great Depression
- New Deal
40s
- WW2
- Post war boom and consumerism
- Industrial production – ability to switch from military to consumer
goods fairly quickly and easily
50s
- Baby Boom
- Growth of Suburbia
- Consumer society – teenage consumption, advertising, tv – 19% GNP
growth under Eisenhower
- Car ownership
- Cold war/Korea
60s
- Car culture
- Consumerism and suburbia – teenage consumption – 50s and 60s
experienced the longest period of uninterrupted economic growth
during JFK, LBJ – 39% GNP growth
- Vietnam – Vietnam war tied up gov finances meant that Great Society
funding was limited and the war on poverty had limited progress
- Great Society – poverty reduced from 22% to 12% across the 60s – led
to increasing gov debt in America and deficit – inflationary fed gov
spending and forced Johnson tax hikes
70s
20s
- Roaring 20s
- Republican presidency – Laissez Faire
- Industrial growth – cars
- Wall Street crash
30s
- Great Depression
- New Deal
40s
- WW2
- Post war boom and consumerism
- Industrial production – ability to switch from military to consumer
goods fairly quickly and easily
50s
- Baby Boom
- Growth of Suburbia
- Consumer society – teenage consumption, advertising, tv – 19% GNP
growth under Eisenhower
- Car ownership
- Cold war/Korea
60s
- Car culture
- Consumerism and suburbia – teenage consumption – 50s and 60s
experienced the longest period of uninterrupted economic growth
during JFK, LBJ – 39% GNP growth
- Vietnam – Vietnam war tied up gov finances meant that Great Society
funding was limited and the war on poverty had limited progress
- Great Society – poverty reduced from 22% to 12% across the 60s – led
to increasing gov debt in America and deficit – inflationary fed gov
spending and forced Johnson tax hikes
70s
