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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?

Government Policies

What is the impact?

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