The Role Of Domesticity In The 1950's

Some historians have argued that 1950s America marked a step back for the advancement that women made during WWII. What contributed to this “return to domesticity” and do you believe that the the decade was good or bad for women?
The end of World War II was the main contributing factor to the “return to domesticity”.
During the war, women played a vital role in the workforce because all of the men had to go fight overseas and left their jobs. This forced women to work in factories and volunteer for war time measures.
“At the war’s end, even though a majority of women surveyed reported wanted to keep their jobs, many were forced out by men returning home and by the downturn in demand for war materials… The nation that needed their help in
The kids were breaking out of the cultural norms from the past and getting too rowdy.

What about the 1950s created an environment and culture that allowed for the beginning of a wide-scale civil rights movement. To what extent was the movement successful in the 1950s? What were the limitations of the movement?
The 1950s created an environment and culture that allowed for the beginning of a wide-scale civil rights movement because of prominent leaders in the black community, the death of Emmett Till, and the Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
Prominent leaders of the time included Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, and Rosa Parks, who led blacks to fight for their rights, and stand up for their cause.
These leaders led marches on Washington and boycotts that caught people's attentions.
“The Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown decision holds up fairly well, however, as a catalyst and starting point for wholesale shifts in perspective” (Branch). This angered blacks, and was a call to action for equality, and desegregation. The court decision caused major uproar, and gave the African American community a boost because segregation in schools was now
The government would inaccurately portray communism many times to make them look more egregious than they really were.
“In the wake of the Cold War, Americans felt it was their patriotic duty to buy consumer goods to help the economy grow. In turn, the U.S. became the world’s dominant economic power” ("Cold War Influences on American Culture, Politics, and Economics").
Americans started to become more patriotic before the cold war and do whatever they had to do to stop communism. In this instance, Americans bought more consumer goods to boost the economy, and to also show that the American way of life was superior to the communists way of life.
“Despite American affluence, the spread of communism and the threat of global atomic war plagued Americans with a sense of constant threat both from within and without” (Prono).
Many Americans were being taught that communists were the enemy from when they were young, so it created a generation that had so much hate and were so scared of the communist influence. In the education system, it was now integrated into the