The postwar era witnessed tremendous economic growth(lots of new businesses and rise in income) and
rising social contentment (how everyone treated each other) and conformity (everyone willing to do the
same thing). Yet in the midst of such increasing affluence and comfortable domesticity, social critics
expressed a growing sense of unease with American culture in the 1950s.
Assess the validity of the above statement (Is the above statement true?) and explain how the decade
of the 1950s laid the groundwork for the social and political turbulence of the 1960s.
Your answer must be in sentence form, have a main idea sentence, use examples from your notes, and
explain how your examples relate to the main idea sentence.
