The ’50s laxity in Torah observance was not a result of what you’re attributing it to. It was mostly a result of that before WWII there were not too many great rabbonim in America to lead such a large flock. There were a small number, themselves mostly having come here not too long before the war, but nowhere nearly sufficient to lead so many American Jews back to the path of proper observance. Post-WWII, with the influx of the remnants of the deeply Torah observant surviving European communities arriving on these shores with some great rabbonim who built up yeshivos and the building of the Jewish infrastructure to bring strict Torah observance to the American masses of what truly turned it around.
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