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Alan Brinkley, American History 15/e
Chapter 28: The Affluent Society Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.
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Highlights “The Economic Miracle”
The Explosion of Science and Technology People of Plenty The “Other America” The Rise of the Civil Rights Movement Eisenhower Republicanism Eisenhower, Dulles, and the Cold War Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.
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“The Economic Miracle”
Sources of Economic Growth Government Spending Suburban Growth Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.
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“The Economic Miracle”
THE AMERICAN BIRTH RATE, 1940–1960 Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.
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“The Economic Miracle”
The Rise of the Modern West Favorable Climate The New Economics Keynesian Economics Ending Poverty through Economic Growth Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.
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“The Economic Miracle”
Capital and Labor Corporate Consolidation The “Postwar Contract” AFL-CIO Limited Gains for Unorganized Workers Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.
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“The Economic Miracle”
WORKERS REPRESENTED BY UNIONS, 1920–2001 Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.
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The Explosion of Science and Technology
Medical Breakthroughs Antibiotics Penicillin Salk Vaccine The polio virus (Reprinted from Schaffer et al, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 41:1020, 1955.) Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.
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The Explosion of Science and Technology
Pesticides DDT Handling pesticide (Photo by Tim McCabe, courtesy of USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service) Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.
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The Explosion of Science and Technology
Postwar Electronic Research Invention of Television Postwar Computer Technology UNIVAC Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.
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The Explosion of Science and Technology
Bombs, Rockets, and Missiles The Hydrogen Bomb H-bomb explosion (StockTrek/Getty Images) Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.
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The Explosion of Science and Technology
The Space Program The Shock of Sputnik The Apollo Program Buzz Aldrin, August (NASA) Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.
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People of Plenty The Consumer Culture Consumer Crazes
Electric Institute of Washington: dishwasher (Library of Congress) Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.
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People of Plenty The Landscape and the Automobile The Suburban Nation
Interstate Highways The Suburban Nation “Levittown” Freeway interchange (PhotoLink/Getty Images) Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.
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People of Plenty The Suburban Family
“Prevailing Gender Roles Reinforced” Dr. Benjamin Spock Woman cooking in kitchen (Index Stock/Getty Images) Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.
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People of Plenty The Birth of Television
Social Consequences of Television Television’s Homogenizing Message The cast of Leave it to Beaver (Library of Congress) Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.
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People of Plenty Travel, Outdoor Recreation, and Environmentalism
Echo Park Sierra Club Reborn Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.
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CHICAGO’S ANNEXATIONS AND THE SUBURBAN NOOSE
People of Plenty CHICAGO’S ANNEXATIONS AND THE SUBURBAN NOOSE Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.
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People of Plenty Organized Society and Its Detractors
Growth of Specialized Education Rifles at Georgetown Preparatory School (Library of Congress) Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.
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People of Plenty The Beats and the Restless Culture of Youth
The Beat Generation’s Critiques Rock ’n’ Roll Elvis Presley Rock ’n’ Roll’s Black Roots “Payola” Scandals Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.
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The “Other America” On the Margins of the Affluent Society
Persistent Poverty Rural Poverty Declining Agricultural Prices Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.
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The “Other America” The Inner Cities Black Urban Migration
“Urban Renewal” George E. C. Hayes, Thurgood Marshall, and James Nabrit congratulating each other, following Supreme Court decision declaring segregation unconstitutional, (Library of Congress) Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.
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AFRICAN AMERICAN MIGRATION, 1950–1980
The “Other America” AFRICAN AMERICAN MIGRATION, 1950–1980 Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.
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The Rise of the Civil Rights Movement
The Brown Decision and “Massive Resistance” Brown v. Board of Education “Separate but Equal” Doctrine Overturned “Massive Resistance” Little Rock Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.
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The Rise of the Civil Rights Movement
The Expanding Movement Montgomery Bus Boycott Martin Luther King’s Strategy “5,000 at Meeting Outline Boycott: Bullet Clips Bus.” Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott. Montgomery Advertiser, December 6, (Library of Congress) Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.
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The Rise of the Civil Rights Movement
Causes of the Civil Rights Movement Legacy of World War II Urban Black Middle Class Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.
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Eisenhower Republicanism
“What Was Good for…General Motors” Business Leaders’ New Outlook Survival of the Welfare State Federal Highway Act of 1956 The Decline of McCarthyism Army-McCarthy Hearings Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.
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Eisenhower, Dulles, and the Cold War
Dulles and “Massive Retaliation” Economic Benefits of “Massive Retaliation” France, America, and Vietnam Dien Bien Phu Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.
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Eisenhower, Dulles, and the Cold War
Cold War Crises Recognizing Israel Suez Crisis Fidel Castro Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.
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Eisenhower, Dulles, and the Cold War
Europe and the Soviet Union Hungarian Revolution of 1956 The U-2 Crisis Eisenhower’s Restraint Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.
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