1. Chapter 30 APUSH Mrs. Price
“Each person must live their life as a model for others.” – Rosa Parks

2. US in 1950s & early 1960s Affluent society Economic growth due to:
Govt spending
Baby Boom
Growth of suburbs
Middle Class doubled

3. Baby Boom

4. Suburbs
By 1960: 1/3 of all Americans lived in the suburbs

5. SHIFTS IN POPULATION DISTRIBUTION, 1940-1970
Central Cities 31.6% % % %
Suburbs % % % %
Rural Areas/ 48.9% % % %
Small Towns
U. S. Bureau of the Census.

6. Appearance of the Credit Card
Belief in Keynesian economics
Consolidation in business, agriculture, & labor

7. Science & Technology Medicine: antibiotics & immunization (polio)
Pesticides: DDT
Television
Computers: IBM
Missiles: Minutemen & Polaris
Space Program: NASA

8. The Civil Rights Movement

9. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)
Reversed Plessy v. Ferguson
Decided on basis of law, history, sociology, & psychology
Segregation in public schools was “inherently unequal”
Deep southern states resisted: segregation academies

10. Rosa Parks
Arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus
Dec 1, 1955

11. Montgomery Bus Boycott
Year-long boycott of bus system
Nov 1956: Supreme Court declared segregation in public transportation illegal
Buses were integrated

12. Little Rock
Sept 1957: Angry mobs blocked entrance to Central High School after courts ordered integration

13. Governor Faubus refused to intervene
Eisenhower sent troops to enforce court order

14. Martin Luther King, Jr. Led bus boycott Believed in nonviolence
Led Southern Christian Leadership Conference

15. Causes of Civil Rights Movement
Legacy of WWII
Growth of urban black middle class
TV= rising consciousness of racism

16. Dwight Eisenhower Believed in limited govt
Wanted to reduce spending & balance budget

17. Federal Highway Act (1956)
25 billion for 10 yr project to build over 40,000 miles of interstate highways

18. Cold War Policies Secretary of State: Dulles
Policy of massive retaliation: rely on deterrent of nuclear weapons
Brinksmanship: pushing the USSR to brink of war to get what we want

19. Vietnam France occupied Vietnam from 1800 to WWII
During WWII Japan occupied Vietnam

20. 1945: Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnam independent
US supports France in its attempt to regain Vietnam b/c Ho Chi Minh is communist
US gives $ & military aid to France

21. French lose Vietnam French unsuccessful in guerilla fighting
1954: French forced to surrender
Geneva Accords
of 1954 divide
Vietnam at 17th
Parallel & ends
War between
Vietnam & France

22. North Vietnam: South Vietnam: Communist Ho Chi Minh Pro-Western
Ngo Dinh Diem

23. Diem refuses to hold elections
in South to reunify country
Diem is corrupt & makes no promised reforms = US still backs him
Eisenhower sends 1,500 advisors to South Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh allies himself with China

24. Israel May 1948: Proclaimed its independence Truman recognized it ASAP
Same year, Palestinian Arabs joined with Arab countries to fight new country

25. Iran CIA helped engineer a coup to force Prime Minister out of office
Replaced by Shah
To ensure US access to oil

26. Cuba 1952: US helped install Fulgencio Batista (military dictator)
1957: resistance movement began to grow led by Fidel Castro

27. Jan 1 1959: Castro took over, Batista fled to Spain
Castro began implementing land reform policies & taking over foreign-owned businesses

28. 1960: Castro began accepting assistance from USSR
1961: Eisenhower severed diplomatic relations w/Castro