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1949 After many years of misery through the Depression and World War 11, post-war prosperity begins to take hold with businesses now able to supply cars, televisions and other goods demanded in a consumer society. Cars have become bigger, televisions have become larger, with some 6.2 million new cars sold in the United States and nearly 10 million televisions in American homes, A new type of television program has emerged that we now let's call it Soap Operas (the name comes from the fact that many soap companies sponsored the shows to catch the stay-at-home mom with advertising). China became a communist country and Russia had the nuclear bomb which increased the tension between East and West (the Cold War).