At the end of World War II in Europe, General Dwight Eisenhower was appointed the military governor of the American zone in Germany.

During his travels around Germany, he noticed that the German Autobahn was really good.

His respect for the German Highway later became the impetus

for passing legislation for the United States interstate highway system. Learn

more about the road system which many people consider a greater American accomplishment

than the Apollo program or the creation of the internet on this episode of Everything Everywhere

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By the mid-1950s, the automobile had been around for about 50 years.

Car ownership rates skyrocketed after World War II and with hundreds of thousands of soldiers

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