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From Boomers to Millennials: A Modern US History Podcast - Episode 1 - 1946: Understanding the Baby Boomers' Parents

Episode 1 - 1946: Understanding the Baby Boomers' Parents

From Boomers to Millennials: A Modern US History Podcast

07/13/19 • 41 min

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To understand the Baby Boomer generation, one first needs to understand the forces that shaped their parents & their childhoods. This episode examines the generation that experienced the Great Depression & World War II before giving birth to the Boomers. The program describes the impact of U.S. postwar prosperity, suburbanization, the G.I. Bill, and the departure of women from the wartime workforce. The year 1946 also contained often-forgotten tensions and conflicts, including clashes over labor relations and race relations. The 1946 episode concludes by looking at the unstable international situation, including a humanitarian crisis in Europe and ideological tensions that would lead the USA & the Soviet Union to their imminent face-off in the Cold War.

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07/13/19 • 41 min

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From Boomers to Millennials: A Modern US History Podcast - Episode 1 - 1946: Understanding the Baby Boomers' Parents

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From boomers to millennials is a modern US history podcast, providing a fresh look at the historical events that shaped current generations from the Cold War era to the present. Welcome to 1946 AKA episode one understanding the baby boomers parents because the actual members of the baby boomer generation are either newborn or unborn during 1946 few will appear as major characters today. However, I will begin to describe the cultural and social fo

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