What were the domestic problems in the US in the 1950s?
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Segregation, paranoia about the atomic bomb, anti-Communist "witch-hunting," and a very large population of children (the Baby Boom), which caused big pressure to build schools, recreation centers, etc., to accommodate more children than this country had ever seen before, or ever saw again once the birth control pill was released to the public.
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1. Failure of ethical governance.\n2. Failing educational system.\n3. Declining moral climate.\n4. Economic considerations running people instead of people being the wise stewards of the economic system.\n5. Too much immigration without qualification.  Many now here do not at all believe in freedom of religion or other traditional American values; some even wish to overthrow or disable the nation.  Many of these are also engaged in lives of exploitation of the working populace and crimes.  The crimes run the gamut from violent to scams and frauds.  \n6. Limitless compensation for corporate executives.\n7. Increasing numbers of impoverished and street people, many of whom are not old and disabled; some of these now helping the drug and crime problems to grow further.\n8. Breakdown of the traditional family structure, the mainstay of all enduring nations.\n10. Misplaced priorities everywhere.  More could be said, but these are sufficient to constitute two steps backward for every one forward currently.\n\nOther nations are having much of the same, and it is still better here than most other places; but, we must ask: How much longer can we endure these ills?  Will enough people change to correct them?
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Well ok to answer your precise question, the most good would have to be in the areas of eliminating corruption and the progression of women... women gained the right to vote during this period.\n\nNow with that said, I have some arguments with the progressive era that I won't spend 4 hours writing about but suffice to say, I am of the opinion, some of the progressive movements changes caused the Great Depression less than 10 years later.
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I live in the Southwest and it has been an issue here for as long as I can remember. The problem has become so enormous that the nation is waking to the problem. We wonder whats taken you so long?
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wow spakarun really wants you to think it was that bad. come on man, chin up, it wasn't like we were all living in a Jewish ghetto.\nYes, times were hard, especially for inner city people and farmers out west. It wasn't called the Great Depression for nothing. But the people weren't turning on each other like dogs. Families were working together, supporting each other. In some parts of America, like the Ohio valley, farming was still successful. The people also turned to silent movies and radio to take their mind off their troubles, which helped Hollywood become the booming place it is today.\nThe point of the question was women in the 1930's. Women had the right to vote. Many of them had turned from the ankle-length skirts of their grandmothers, and were wearing more modern dresses, with short sleeves and hemlines to their knees.\nMost of them still prefered to stay home and be housewives, unless they were single or widowed. In those days, if a married woman was working, it was a shame on her husband. \n.
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socially, isnt that subjective? a lot has changed, but whether that's considered progress or decline is debatable. (50's housewives, 60-70s civil rights movement, hippies, etc, 80-90's hair bands and fads etc etc)\n\neconomically, we've been doing the same cycle of highs and lows as the economy is historically known to do, though if you're talking about economic systems and structure of american economy, not too much has changed.\n\ntechnologically speaking of course, there has been plenty of progress, at an exponentially higher rate than ever before.  (medicine, internet, even video games and cars)
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I think most of the domestic conflict starts through television. Spouses and kids spend too much time today in watching the idiot box than interacting with each other.Result a so invented generation gap. Parents dont know what thier kids think and kids dont know what is right and wrong.
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The Great Depression was an economic slump in North America, Europe, and other industrialized areas of the world that began in 1929 and lasted until about 1939. It was the longest and most severe depression ever experienced by the industrialized Western world.\n\nThough the U.S. economy had gone into depression six months earlier, the Great Depression may be said to have begun with a catastrophic collapse of stock-market prices on the New York Stock Exchange in October 1929. During the next three years stock prices in the United States continued to fall, until by late 1932 they had dropped to only about 20 percent of their value in 1929. Besides ruining many thousands of individual investors, this precipitous decline in the value of assets greatly strained banks and other financial institutions, particularly those holding stocks in their portfolios. Many banks were consequently forced into insolvency; by 1933, 11,000 of the United States' 25,000 banks had failed. The failure of so many banks, combined with a general and nationwide loss of confidence in the economy, led to much-reduced levels of spending and demand and hence of production, thus aggravating the downward spiral. The result was drastically falling output and drastically rising unemployment; by 1932, U.S. manufacturing output had fallen to 54 percent of its 1929 level, and unemployment had risen to between 12 and 15 million workers, or 25-30 percent of the work force.\n\nThe Great Depression began in the United States but quickly turned into a worldwide economic slump owing to the special and intimate relationships that had been forged between the United States and European economies after World War I. The United States had emerged from the war as the major creditor and financier of postwar Europe, whose national economies had been greatly weakened by the war itself, by war debts, and, in the case of Germany and other defeated nations, by the need to pay war reparations. So once the American economy slumped and the flow of American investment credits to Europe dried up, prosperity tended to collapse there as well. The Depression hit hardest those nations that were most deeply indebted to the United States, i.e., Germany and Great Britain. In Germany, unemployment rose sharply beginning in late 1929, and by early 1932 it had reached 6 million workers, or 25 percent of the work force. Britain was less severely affected, but its industrial and export sectors remained seriously depressed until World War II. Many other countries had been affected by the slump by 1931.\n\nAlmost all nations sought to protect their domestic production by imposing tariffs, raising existing ones, and setting quotas on foreign imports. The effect of these restrictive measures was to greatly reduce the volume of international trade: by 1932 the total value of world trade had fallen by more than half as country after country took measures against the importation of foreign goods.\n\nThe Great Depression had important consequences in the political sphere. In the United States, economic distress led to the election of the Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt to the presidency in late 1932. Roosevelt introduced a number of major changes in the structure of the American economy, using increased government regulation and massive public-works projects to promote a recovery. But despite this active intervention, mass unemployment and economic stagnation continued, though on a somewhat reduced scale, with about 15 percent of the work force still unemployed in 1939 at the outbreak of World War II. After that, unemployment dropped rapidly as American factories were flooded with orders from overseas for armaments and munitions. The depression ended completely soon after the United States' entry into World War II in 1941. In Europe, the Great Depression strengthened extremist forces and lowered the prestige of liberal democracy. In Germany, economic distress directly contributed to Adolf Hitler's ri
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The main problem was that the Federal Goverment had no real power of the States to raise taxes (or anything else) \n\nIt was like each State was its own country
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very unstable.\n\nUS CIA intervention in the 50s and 60s.\n\nlots of civil war.
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what kind of problem?
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Back in the 1930 yeah it was a problem but now..  Why not...\nUsually they have beautiful kids...
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not an easy answer, I would recommend reading "The Status Seekers" by Vance Packard, or the scaled down version (it is just selections from the book) "American Social Classes in the 1950's", edited by Daniel Horowitz
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<>Racial attitudes of the 1950s?
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Well the depresion mainly, but also constitutional issues since the supreme court kept vetoing FDR's recovery bills. FDR threatened to pack the court with new "young blood" so then the court started to comply with him. People forget that this was a huge constitutional crisis at the time.
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What other problems?...\n\nThe fact that we spend billions of dollars in foreign-aid while America is rotting morally and fighting among ourselves within our own borders?\n\nThe fact that the government has not clamped down on companies and businesses outsourcing their goods and jobs overseas?\n\nThe fact that we spend millions, if not billions of dollars in Social Security and welfare on individuals who refuse to work and instead rely on Government handouts?\n\nThe fact that the federal government continues to strip the powers of the American Individual, and yet ask for MORE power in the false attempt to solve the problems of society?\n\nThe fact that the Iraq War is starting to turn into Bush's version of Johnson's Vietnam War?\n\nThe fact that the USA is no longer the dominant super-power it once was, but is being bested by China, Japan, Brazil, and Finland????\n\nNo....i don't really think so.
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Those are very different questions.\n\nThe first I'd say WWI, the widescale adoption of the automobile, the general rise of automation and the decline of small-plot agriculture, the great depression, the new deal, and WWII.\n\nThe second I'd say probably the loosening of immigration restictions, the exodus from Europe preceeding the two world wars, and the rise of the united states as a world superpower.