1. 1945- WWII (1939-1945) ends, the Allies win.
2. 1946- “Iron Curtain” descends across Europe, in which Europe is ideologically divided between communism (Soviet areas) and democracy (the rest of Europe), start of the Cold War
3. 1945 - The first test atomic bomb is exploded in New Mexico, would dramatically change war dynamics
4. After the end of WWII, Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American in baseball's major leagues
5. Homosexuality was considered a mental illness under the DSM III until 1973
6. Baby boom: the larger than expected population generation born shortly after WWII
7. "The media and government encouraged women to return to their homes, which ran counter the image of the working, publicly achieving woman promoted by WWII's surge in women's employment. Sponsored domestic repression".
8. The end of WWII prompted reform in psychiatry, with outpatient clinics that provided therapy and brief treatment techniques that gradually deinstitutionalized the mentally ill, along with psychotropic medication becoming more available in the 1950s.
9. GI Bill- Post WWII, men that had served in the military gained a socioeconomic advantage
10. Jim Crow laws (1876-1965): State and local laws that mandated racial segregation in all public facilities, which maintained a "separate but equal" status for African Americans
Post WWII, violence directed by the white working class homeowners at blacks who attempted to move into their neighborhoods and use their public facilities
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