"The post–World War II economic expansion, also known as the
postwar economic boom, the long boom, and the Golden Age of
Capitalism, was a period of economic prosperity in the mid-20th
century, which occurred mainly inwestern countries following the
end of World War II in 1945, and lasted until the early 1970s.
It ended with the collapse of the Bretton Woods system in 1971,
the1973 oil crisis, and the 1973–1974 stock market crash, which
led to the 1970s recession." Economic recovery from the Great
Depression and of WWII, a period in which demand for goods and
services exploded, many social changes took place. Women filled
the labor gap during the war and many happily returned to
homemaking while many others remained in the paid labor force
but at unequal pay. Race issues began to explode as returning
African- and -Asian American military personnel returned home no
longer willing to put up with segregation and Jim Crow laws.
1968 Was a dreadful year with riots, sit-ins, marches and
protesters of all varieties