How was the 1950s an era of inequality?

Oh brother the two main objects of inequality back then was racism and homophobia. Back the people were not as open minded as today and they were prejudiced against this type of stuff. You can mainly blame Christianity or most forms of religion who teach people what is wrong or what is right. But women were able to start getting jobs so that was cool back then.

the fact that could also be added to column b is that during world war ii, specifically between the years 1941 and 1945, japan expanded its territory towards the indonesian territory in what was known later as part of the "pacific war". in that time, japan could conquer the philipines, singapore,   borneo, central java, malang, cebu, sumatra and various other islands of the area, therefore expanding its territory for a brief period of time.

during both period congress passed law restricting the civil liberties of american citizen that meet with the overall public support is the one statement that explain the rate scare of the 1920 and 1950 is very similar