American’s Post Korean War

In the 1960’s the United States had just came back from a major war that had their soldiers over in Korea fighting against communism. When the US soldiers came back home to there families, the US began to revert back to similar what it was before the soldiers went over to Korea. The American families and the US as a whole began to change however, since they had been fighting for so long they came back older and wanting different lives than they did when the war started. They began to settle down and start their own family. Little did they know that the were going to be the ones who created the overflow of children, generated inflation and live with oil problems around the US.

The Baby booming generation began with an overflow of soldiers coming back from the end of the Korean War. When soldiers came back from war, it led to an increase in marriages, which led to more babies being born. If you were born in the 50s or 60s you are known as the baby booming generation (Benson, Brannen, and Valentine 125). Since there were more babies being born, there were more things being bought pertaining to kids. Businesses made profit since more families needed cars and houses. That is when suburbanization came into America. Suburbanization is where they built houses on the outside of the cities (Benson, Brannen, and Valentine 125). From the time they were born to the time they graduated college and bought houses they called them the “overcrowding” generation for the reason that there were so many of them. First it was the hospitals, then schools when they grew older and then colleges became bombarded with the young adults that wanted to get there degree (Benson, Brannen, and Valentine 126). When the Boomers graduated, it was very hard for peop...

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