Decades

1950s Consumerism Move to suburbs and white flight Advertising Cult of domesticity Birth of rock and roll Civil Rights Sputnik! McCarthyism

Polio ends! Jonas Salk

1950s Presidents: Truman, Eisenhower

1960s “High 60s” Cold War (U2 Incident, Cuban Missile Crisis) Vietnam Counterculture Continuation of Civil Rights Movement Women’s Rights movement British invasion

Presidents: JFK, LBJ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq1Pb geBoQ4

Betty Friedan and the women’s movement It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself. A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all

Apollo 11 Lands

I Have a Dream

Hippies

Woodstock

British Invasion

American Literature Norman Mailer, Jack Kerouac “The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!”

1968! MLK assassinated RFK assassinated Altamont concert End of the hippies?!?!

1970s Environmental Crisis Gas Crisis Continuation of Vietnam

Presidents Nixon, Ford

Watergate

Silent Spring- Rachel Carson

Energy Crisis