WHERE WE’VE BEEN – WHERE WE ARE – W HERE WE’RE GOING Truman (1945-1953) Eisenhower (1953-1961) Kennedy (1961-1963) WW2 Ends (Atom Bomb) Cold War Begins Korean War Marshall Plan Truman Doctrine Berlin Airlift NATO $ to France Massive Retaliation M.A.D. McCarthyism $ to Diem in S.V. CIA Covert Ops (Iran) Hungarian Revolt Suez Crisis Camp David w/ Khrushchev U2 Incident Rise of Castro Flexible Response Cuba – Bay of Pigs, Missile Crisis Vietnam – Advisers to help S.V. McCarthyism-HUAC “Rosie Riveter” goes home High savings rates. Fair Deal GI Bill Conformity Suburbia Gender Roles Interstate Hwy Act Brown v. Board Little Rock 9 Montgomery Bus Boycott Freedom Riders SCLC, SNCC New Frontier Civil Rights Warren Court (extends past JFK)
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W H E R E W E ’ V E B E E N – W H E R E W E A R E – W H E R E W E ’ R E G O I N G
WW2 Ends (Atom Bomb)Cold War BeginsKorean WarMarshall PlanTruman DoctrineBerlin AirliftNATO$ to France
Massive RetaliationM.A.D.McCarthyism $ to Diem in S.V.CIA Covert Ops (Iran)Hungarian RevoltSuez CrisisCamp David w/ KhrushchevU2 IncidentRise of Castro
Flexible ResponseCuba – Bay of Pigs, Missile CrisisVietnam – Advisers to help S.V.
McCarthyism-HUAC“Rosie Riveter” goes homeHigh savings rates.Fair DealGI Bill
ConformitySuburbiaGender RolesInterstate Hwy ActBrown v. BoardLittle Rock 9Montgomery Bus BoycottFreedom RidersSCLC, SNCC
New FrontierCivil RightsWarren Court (extends past JFK)
Were there two Americas in the 1950s?
• Use the photos you have been given to make preliminary piles and “labels” for the different realities Americans experienced in the 1950s.
• Note the people, places, and events that made each “America” distinct or significant.
• Play while working: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_2lGkEU4Xs
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E I S E N H O W E R : D O M E S T I C
REWIND:TRUMAN AND A FAIR DEAL
• Liberal initiatives to solve nation’s economic and social post war problems
– New Civil Rights legislation
– Federal Housing Program
– Unemployment insurance benefits
– New tax cuts for the poor
– Federal funding for education
– A federal health care and health insurance program
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ENTER EISENHOWER:• Dynamic Conservatism
– Budget Cutting
– support for big business
– return to state and local control
• Dept’s of: Health, Education, and Welfare in 1953.
• Housing Act - 35,000 homes for low-income families.
• AFL and CIO merge (major labor unions)
• Federal Interstate Highway Act (because Commies)
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POSTWAR PROSPERITY
Continued military production (because Commies)
Servicemen Readjustment Act or GI Bill (Truman)
Technology and Mass Consumption – TV, typewriter, auto industry, etc.
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QUICK QUESTION1) THE EDITORS OF BUSINESS MAGAZINE FORTUNE
CELEBRATE AMERICAN AFFLUENCE (1955)
Read the document. As a group, generate at least 1 question to the author to either:– Clarify something that doesn’t make sense
– Challenge or call them out on something
– Contextualize what they’re talking about in terms of what else is going on at the time
CHANGES IN SOCIETY
� Conformity - avoid standing out from the crowd.� Discuss: Why after World War II would Americans
feel the need to conform and go back to “the way things should be”?