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Let’s take a look inside the United States. What was American society like in the 1950s?

What was Lend –Lease?

Why was there rationing of things like sugar and shoes during World War II when it’s been established that American production levels were sky-high during the conflict?   Surely a nation that could build thousands of airplanes could make enough shoes for everyone.  What did lectures say about this?

The Five Power Naval Treaty of 1922 is associated with the Washington Naval Conference.

Why on earth did Japan attack the US Navy Base at Pearl Harbor?

The Watts Riot of 1965 and the riots of 1967 destroyed the notion that the United States had fully solved its civil rights and race issues.

When World War II erupted, what actions did the United States take in the late 1930s and early 1940s?

The 1950s is famous for conformity.  Why?

While the 1970s certainly advanced civil rights causes in the United States, environmentally it was a disaster, as incidents like the Love Canal Catastrophe illustrate.  

A Memo from the US Bureau of Census announced that the American frontier no longer existed as of 1890.