It is very important to study the post-war United States for a number of reasons. Television, grocery stores, rock and roll, airplane travel, all of these things can be traced back to the post-war United States. In addition to those examples several other common sights nowadays got their beginning in the post-war period. For many students, their grandparents immigrated into the United States during this time, for many others, their families found their identities during this time. Secondly, this is the period in which the United States asserted itself as a dominant superpower in the post-war world. The employment rate was at an all time high, American pop-culture was king and the rest of world was powered by American manufacturing. This period is important in that students will be able to learn how the modern United States was formed, what specific ideas evolved from this period and the ways in which an individual American impacted the United States during this time. The post-war United States is perhaps one of the most important periods for a student to study, its when the country found its identity and rose to the occasion to become a key nation within the world.