VOCABULARY Suburb – the area just outside a large city Dixiecrat – Political party that developed in the 1950s when segregationists broke away from the national Democrats Baby Boom – Period between 1946 and 1964 when there was a large increase in the number of babies born Planned Obsolescence – a marketing strategy that started in the 1950s in which companies made products to become outdated making you to want the new and improved model
VOCABULARY 118. Mass Media – communication with a large number of people through one source 119. Beat Movement – (Beatniks) social and artistic movement of the nonconformists of the 1950s 120. Termination Policy – plan by the US government to end all federal economic support for the Native Americans by discontinuing the reservation system and redistributing all tribal lands
CHAPTER 19 THE POST WAR BOOM THE NIFTY FIFTIES
TAFT-HARTLEY ACT Outlawed closed shops. The practice of businesses hiring only union members Businesses had to be “open shops”
GI BILL Helped WW II veterans College Home Business
ASSEMBLY LINE HOMES Levittown
POPULATION SHIFT CITY TO SUBURB
TRUMAN INTEGRATION LABOR STRIKES Supported civil rights Were a problem Pushed congress to pass laws – they would not Executive order Integrate the armed forces LABOR STRIKES Were a problem Threatened to draft them
DIXIECRATS 1948 Election Civil Rights is key issue for Democrats Southern Democrats Strom Thurmond 1956-2003
TRUMAN’S FAIR DEAL Introduced as an extension of the New Deal Crop Subsidy Nation wide health insurance Raise minimum wage Extended social security Flood control and irrigation projects
VOCABULARY Suburb Dixiecrat Baby Boom Planned Obsolescence
VOCABULARY Mass Media Beat Movement Termination Policy
1952 ELECTION Eisenhower wins Nixon is vice pres.
Brown v. Board of Education Rosa Parks
Eisenhower and Civil Rights Did not believe a federal law was necessary The ENFORCER
Alaska and Hawaii become states under Eisenhower
SWITCH from BLUE COLLAR to WHITE COLLAR JOBS
CONGLOMERATE AT&T General Electric AOL/Time Warner Walt Disney Sony
FRANCHISE McDonald’s A company that offers similar products and service at many locations McDonald’s
SOCIAL CONFORMITY
COMMUTING MADE POSSIBLE BY New highways Gasoline automobiles
SUBURBAN LIFE WONDERFUL DREAM HOME SINGLE FAMILY HOME GOOD SCHOOLS SAFE WHITE PICKET FENCE
THE BABY BOOM
Jonas Salk Polio vaccine
WOMEN OF THE 1950S
AUTOMANIA
INTERSTATE HIGHWAY ACT Easier trucking Towns grew Vacations Shopping centers grew Industries moved away from cities
Eminent Domain
PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE
CREDIT - ADVERTISEMENTS
MASS MEDIA FCC
ENTERTAINMENT MOVIES AND TV TV Guide TV dinners Stereotypes and Fads Smellovision
B E A T M O V N
ALAN FREED AND ROCK & ROLL
AFRICAN AMERICANS AND POP CULTURE The Story About Ruby Valentine
White Flight Many White Americans left cities and went to suburbs Less people in the cities – less money for services so the cities began to decline
BRACERO PROGRAM LONGORIA INCIDENT
TERMINATION POLICY Change of policy of dealing with Native Americans Eisenhower put policy in place Withdrew federal aid from Native Americans It lasted 10 years and was a failure
1950s trends – housing, population shifts 1950s trends – housing, population shifts . . . . . Baby Boom Beat Movement Benjamin Spock Civil War in China Commuting Conglomerate Containment Covert Operations in Middle East and Latin America Dixiecrats East and West Germany Eisenhower and Civil Rights Eisenhower Doctrine Franchise GI Bill of Rights HUAC Interstate Highway Act Iron Curtain John Foster Dulles Jonas Salk Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Khrushchev Korean War Loyalty Review Board Marshall Plan Mass Media McCarthyism NATO Open Skies Potsdam Conference Sputnik Stalin Truman Doctrine Truman’s presidency U-2 Flights United Nations Warsaw Pact Yalta Conference NATO/Warsaw Map