INTRODUCTIONThe post-World War II era provided new opportunities for the American people to explore and develop new technologies that radically changed the United States; for example, treatment for polio, space exploration, computer literacy, advances in the arms industry, the automobile industry and color television, etc. With all the advancements in technology, how has technology changed the United States? The paper will discuss the technological changes that occurred in each era between 1945 and 2000. The paper will present the most important inventions and technological changes of each decade; furthermore, changes in people's lives and their positive or negative impacts on society, politics and the economy. The incessant parade of new technologies has unfolded since 1945. The technological changes that have occurred have altered the business or social landscape, but they have also disrupted the way people lived and worked before the 1950s. Resource availability , land, labor, the prestige of entrepreneurship, and the free market have all contributed to America's rapid technological changes. AFTER WORLD WAR II AND THE LATE 1940S (1945-1949) Technology played a crucial role in determining the outcome of World War II. Much of it developed between the wars and in the 1920s and 1930s. However, technological changes occurred in the early and late 1940s. Customization of technology took place in the United States while that soldiers continued to fight abroad. Among them, weapons, logistical support, communications, intelligence equipment, medicine and industrial changes. In the field of weapons, some of the technological improvements have taken place in ships, military vehicles, aircraft, artillery, rockets and small, biological, chemical and nuclear weapons...... middle of paper. .....0. ^ Ritchie, Patrick. “Credit: the foundation of borrowing. » In The Credit Roadmap: A Practical Guide to Navigating to Good Credit, 21-23. Tempe, Arizona: Success Road Map Press LLC, 2006. Schoener, Steven E. “The Digital Revolution.” Internet Archive: Wayback Machine. Last edited May 5, 2004. http://web.archive.org/web/20081007132355/http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/recording/digital.html.Shmoop. “Science and Technology in the 1950s.” Accessed November 10, 2013. http://www.shmoop.com/1950s/science-technology.html.Wetzel, James R. “American Families: 75 Years of Change.” U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Accessed November 12, 2013. http://www.bls.gov/mlr/1990/03/art1full.pdf. Young, William H. and Nancy K. Young. 1950s. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2004.