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APUSH The Cold War: A New Society at Home (37 and 38)
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CTA:
Suburbs Expand...Again
ASSESSMENT
Levittowns
The Cold War:
Government Efforts:
Restricts the power of unions
Proposes the Fair Deal
A New Society at Home
Building on New Deal and more safety social net and improved standard of living
- Congress supports Taft-Hartley Act
- Pushes early desegregation
Middle Road Conservatism
Another Major Increase
The Baby Boom
- Raised by Dr. Spock's The Common Book of Baby and Child Care
- Very popular, on both sides-First Republican since Hoover
Increase in births between 1945 and 1964
EDUCATION:
- Wanted to balance the budget
- SS to 10M more citizens
- Minimum wage -UP
- Public Housing -UP
- Anti-pollution legislation
Taxes
Inflation
- Passing of Interstate Highway Act
Sputnik influences education (NDEA)
Budge Deficits
Per Capita Income
GNP
Middle Class
Objectives:
- Spend $32 Billion to build 41k miles of highway
1. Analyze how the U.S. made the transformation to a peacetime economy and the 1950s economic boom.
2. Asses the domestic actions of Eisenhower and Truman.
3. Examine the rise of the suburbs and the growth of the Sunbelt
America Faces Demobilization
Lets Put This All Together
1945 Military=12 million
1946 Military=3 million
Things Remain Mostly Good!
US economy dominates the world
- Mass Consumerism
- Family Income almost 2x
The Service Sector
Helps returning military members
Information Industry
Jobs
An Example:
Nuclear Family
- Only 6% of population
- 50% of world output
The Family of the Fifties
A CASE STUDY
Poverty and Problems
- Better technology, better productivity
A Muckraker?
Middle Class goes to suburbs
The Sunbelt
- Housing shortage in urban areas
- Hurts cities economically (taxes)
Baby Boomers
Housing
Tuition
Expenses
Unemployment
Franchise Business
Dr. Salk polio vaccine (1952)
Region of states in the South and Southwest
Ideal family of the 1950s with mother, father and children
Inner City
Rural
Minorities
Urban Renewal Effort
Technology
New Entertainment Gains Popularity
Reinforced Stereotypes...But not always true
Advanced Mass Culture....New Consumer?
Rock-and-Roll
"It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues . . . It's call rock now"
-Chuck Berry
Became a symbol of the emerging you culture
Starts to blur racial lines
Not all were fond of it
All Do Not Agree
Beatniks
Rejection of Mass Culture
small group of writers and artists in the 1950s and early 1960s who were critical of US society...Hippies?