EQ: What was the impact of technology and economic growth in the U.S. following WWII? KQ1: What were Levittowns? KQ2: List 2 purposes of the Interstate Highway Act? KQ3: List 3 ways television impacted public opinion during the 1960s? KQ4: How did Sputnik I affect public education in the United States? KQ5: List 3 major entrepreneurs/competitors of Silicon Valley.

SSUSH21 The student will explain the impact of technological development and economic growth on the United States, a. Describe the baby boom and its impact as shown by Levittown and the Interstate Highway Act. b. Describe the impact television has had on American culture; include the presidential debates (Kennedy/Nixon, 1960) and news coverage of the Civil Rights Movement. c. Analyze the impact of technology on American life; include the development of the personal computer and the expanded use of air conditioning. d. Describe the impact of competition with the USSR as evidenced by the launch of Sputnik I and President Eisenhower’s actions.

Activator  Describe life in America prior to WWII  Thinking Prompt: How did WWII aide recovery from the Great Depression?

Life in America Post WWII  New American dream Home, family, 2 car garage and 2 children  Rise in Families (baby boom)  Suburbs develop-sense of communities  Highways built  TV, tv trays, diaper service, milk man, air conditioning and personal computers  New Vaccines eliminating diseases like polio  Communication satellites for long distance phone calls and improving weather forecast  Growth of airline industry

Baby Boom  During Great Depression and WWII, people did not want to have children  When soldiers returned home from WWII and Korea, they got married and had children  Baby Boom-increase in birth rate between million “boomers” born during this time

Birthrate, The late 1940s & 1950s experienced the“baby boom”

Impact of Baby Boom  1 st -Need for Homes: GI Bill: Congress provided grants to soldiers to go to college and low interest rates for homes Housing boom and development of suburbs (Levittown)  2 nd -Increased Consumer Spending on household items leads to economic boom  3 rd -Government built infrastructure Schools; water, sewer & power grids; highways Interstate Highway Act

Levittown, New York  Levittown N.Y.: one of the earliest mass produced suburbs  A community of homes constructed quickly and efficiently that were sold at a lower price.  “Common People” could afford to buy homes due to the economic explosion.  Families rushed to buy homes in the suburbs (outside the city) Reasons for Suburbia: ○ Escape crime & other problems of cities; and better life for kids. ○ Home loans for veterans made more affordable

Levittown, New York

A Suburban Case Study: Levittown, New York Begin in 1947 with 4,000 rental homes to veterans Grew to 17,000 sold homes in 1951

Southdale Shopping Center, Minnesota— the 1 st enclosed, air-conditioned shopping mall

Interstate Highway Act 1956  President Eisenhower called for the construction of a government funded federal interstate highway system 40,000 miles of highways built  Original Purpose: For the military-Easier to move troops and supplies  Other impact: Increased mobility for citizens and increased dependence on automobile Connected suburban communities

Federal Highway System

Partner Review Questions  What was the baby boom?  What was Levittown?  What was the purpose of the Interstate Highway Act?

TV  TV replaced the radio ,000 TV sets purchased million  Created common national culture Provides information, entertainment and news of political and social events  First televised presidential debate – 1960 presidential election. John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon Nixon was sick & looked bad, but Kennedy was relaxed and helped Kennedy in polls. ○ Those listening on the radio thought Nixon won the debates  Civil Rights-TV demonstrated peaceful civil rights protestors being brutally beaten by the police. These images won many Americans over to the Civil Rights cause by showing Americans the violence of segregation and the dignity of the African American quest for equal rights Examples: Alabama State Patrol attack at the Selma March and MLK’s I Have a Dream Speech Impact of TV

TV in the 1950s  $64,000 Question  21 Questions  Bonanza  The Untouchables  I Love Lucy  1950s TV networks “I Love Lucy” “The Milton Berle Show” TV replaced radio & magazines as the primary conveyer of American consumer culture

 Leave it to Beaver  PFEF2s-0

Air Conditioning  Air conditioning in homes adds comfort to people’s lives  Impact: People and businesses move in to the deep south and warmer areas Negative: people stay inside instead of seeking the cool of the early evening

The Personal Computer  Utilized to share information quickly across the globe. Changes communication patterns and business  Creates a sense of shared culture throughout the world-globalization  Leads to later Internet Age and Silicon Valley, Microsoft and Apple

Impact of Technology  Technological Revolution: Computers: ○ 1970s: Apple makes home computer ○ 1981: IBM introduces PCs & Microsoft creates operating system (MS-DOS) ○ Computer Age begins ○ 1990s: Internet & the World Wide Web Cellular Phones: ○ 1947: Mobile car phone ○ 1973: Motorola makes first cellular device outside car  Result: Increase in communication  Rise of airline industry  Improved weather forecasts

The Space Race  US vs. USSR race to space  The USSR launched the satellite Sputnik I in 1957  The US fearful that they could use the same technology to launch a nuclear bomb began to push our space programs.

Space Race  1958 Eisenhower pushed through the National Defense Education Act A law that provided aid for educational courses such as science, math, and foreign languages New Generation of scientists and engineers that develop new technology that later is used to form the internet  NASA founded-National Aeronautics and Space Administration  The Soviet Union launched a man into space (Yuri Gagarin).  Neil Armstrong (from the US) walked on the moon.

Partner Review Questions  What was the impact of TV?  What was the impact of televising the Presidential debate between Nixon and JFK?  What was the impact of TV on the Civil Rights movement?  What new product increased comfort in homes?  What is the impact of personal computers?  What was the Space Race?  How did it impact education?

What was one major result of the space race?  A. successful landing of Soviet astronauts on the moon  B. improvement of Satellite telecommunications  Development of nuclear weapons  Creation of a model for international cooperation

What was one major result of the space race?  A. successful landing of Soviet astronauts on the moon  B. improvement of Satellite telecommunications  C. Development of nuclear weapons  D. Creation of a model for international cooperation

The successful launch of Sputnik by the Soviets in 1957 led to:  A. creation of a missile system  B. discovery of the effects of low gravity on nuclear weapons  C. major effort by the Us to improve math and science education  D. defeat of Nixon in the 1960 Presidential election

The successful launch of Sputnik by the Soviets in 1957 led to:  A. creation of a missile system  B. discovery of the effects of low gravity on nuclear weapons  C. major effort by the US to improve math and science education  D. defeat of Nixon in the 1960 Presidential election

Increased automobile use in the 1960s motivated Eisenhower to create:  A. standardized driving test  B. fuel emissions standard  C. automobile safety standards  D. interstate highway system

Increased automobile use in the 1960s motivated Eisenhower to create:  A. standardized driving test  B. fuel emissions standard  C. automobile safety standards  D. interstate highway system

Levittown was an important aspect of what post-WWII issue?  A. civil rights movement  B. growth of suburbs  C. GI Bill  D. Cold War

Levittown was an important aspect of what post-WWII issue?  A. civil rights movement  B. growth of suburbs  C. GI Bill  D. Cold War

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Activity  Create a comic strip of one of the following options: Be sure to provide written detail of the impact/importance on economic growth or of that technology and a SLOGAN/CATCHPHRASE  Social changes as seen through:  Baby Boom  Levittown  Interstate Highway Act  Technological changes as seen thru:  Space Race  Television and/or Computers  Nixon/Kennedy Debate