49. In his parting speech from the White House, on January 17, 1961, President Dwight Eisenhower warned the nation about what he termed as the military-industrial complex, meaning the union of defense contractors and armed forces, on what Eisenhower considered a menace to democratic government.
50. The economy grew quickly. The economic expansion of post-World War II, also known as the Golden Age of capitalism, was a period of economic prosperity in the mid-twentieth century, which occurred mainly in Western countries after the end of World War II in 1945, and lasted until early 1970.This expansion was caused by social, cultural and political movements. Movements and phenomena associated with this period include the heyday of the Cold War, postmodernism, decolonization, a sharp increase in consumption, social welfare, space race, the Non-Aligned Movement, import substitution , opposition to the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement, and the sexual revolution. In the United States, the middle class began mass migration away from the city centers to the suburbs.
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the significant population growth following World War II
