The affluent society, liberal reform, and postwar culture

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Explain the causes of the postwar economic boom and the rise of an affluent society, including wartime legacies, consumer demand, defense spending, and productivity growth.
Explain how suburbanization, interstate highway construction, migration to the Sun Belt, and the baby boom transformed American society, politics, and the environment.

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Explain the goals and effects of liberal reform in the postwar era, including Truman’s Fair Deal, the Warren Court, and Johnson’s Great Society.

Evaluate the extent to which Great Society programs and other federal initiatives expanded economic opportunity, education, health care, and civil rights while leaving enduring inequalities unresolved.

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