The 1950s is normally remembered as a golden decade in American history, where the people enjoyed a
new level of prosperity and were able to live in happiness and security with their job and their
neighborhoods as shown in popular TV shows like Happy Days. Were the 1950s truly “happy days” for
Americans? Why or why not? Consider things happening in the country in the 1950s regarding the
economy, consumerism, race, gender, sex, and the anxieties over communism that created the “scares”
of the decade.
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