Social Changes
GI Bill to the Internet
Baby Boom
1940s
GI Bill
1950s
Suburbia
Levittown
Urban Sprawl
White Flight
Domesticity
1960s – Camelot
Great Society War on Poverty Civil Rights Act Voting Rights Act Medicare Medicaid Clean Water Act National Endowment
for the Arts Head Start
Anti-War Protests1968 Democratic Convention
Campus Shootings
Kent State (May 4, 1970)
Campus Shootings
Jackson State (May 14, 1970)
Moon Landing
1970s
Women’s MovementBirth Control PillERARoe v. Wade
Divorce Rates
1970s
Rise of TelevangelismJogging (Personal Fitness)
Discussion:
In terms of society’s values, how do the nineteen seventies compare to the nineteen sixties?
1970s
Crisis of Confidence Speech – July 15, 1979
1980s
Yuppies
Greed is Good
Technology
VCR
PCs
Walkman
Welfare Reform
Welfare Reform
Internet
Discussion
Turn to a neighbor. Discuss the ways in which American
Society have changed over the last 50 years.
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