1. The Cold War at Home
US Domestic Policy:

2. Postwar America Highest standard of living in history!
GI Bill of Rights
Baby Boom
Suburbia
Levittown
Sunbelt

3. Truman

4. Truman “Fair Deal” Taft Hartley Act, 1947
Desegregated the Military, 1948
22nd Amendment, 1950

5. A 2nd Red Scare Smith Act, 1940 Loyalty Review Boards, 1947
McCarran Internal Security Act, 1950
HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee)
Alger Hiss Trial
Rosenberg Case
Joseph McCarthy
Army-McCarthy Hearings

6. Eisenhower

7. Eisenhower
Fiscal Conservative, Moderate on Issues “Dynamic Conservatism”
Expanded Social Security
Interstate Highway Act, 1956
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 1958
National Defense Education Act, 1958

8. Culture of the 1950s Television Rock N Roll Conformity Advertising
Corporate America
Women
Cult of Domesticity
Dr. Benjamin Spock: Commonsense Book of Baby & Childcare
Beat Movement (Beatniks)
Literature

9. Kennedy

10. Kennedy “New Frontier” Economy
aid to education, urban renewal, civil rights, health care
Economy
increased spending on defense and space exploration

11. Johnson

12. Johnson Devoted follower of FDR’s New Deal The War on Poverty
“Great Society”
Medicare/Medicaid
Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Clean air and water laws
Automobile regulation
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965

13. The Warren Court Brown v. Board of Education. 1954 Yates v. US, 1957
Mapp v. Ohio, 1961
Engel v. Vitale, 1962
Gideon v. Wainwright, 1963
Escobedo v. Illinois, 1964
Griswold v. Connecticut, 1965
Miranda v. Arizona, 1966

14. Turmoil of the 1960s Students for a Democratic Society, 1962
Port Huron Statement
“New Left”
Free Speech Movement, UC Berkeley, 1964
Vietnam War Protests
Counterculture
Woodstock
Haight Ashbury
Sexual Revolution

15. Excerpt from Port Huron Statement
We are people of this generation, bred in at least modest comfort, housed now in universities, looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit.
When we were kids the United States was the wealthiest and strongest country in the world: the only one with the atom bomb, the least scarred by modern war, an initiator of the United Nations that we thought would distribute Western influence throughout the world. Freedom and equality for each individual, government of, by, and for the people -- these American values we found good, principles by which we could live as men. Many of us began maturing in complacency.
As we grew, however, our comfort was penetrated by events too troubling to dismiss. First, the permeating and victimizing fact of human degradation, symbolized by the Southern struggle against racial bigotry, compelled most of us from silence to activism. Second, the enclosing fact of the Cold War, symbolized by the presence of the Bomb, brought awareness that we ourselves, and our friends, and millions of abstract "others" we knew more directly because of our common peril, might die at any time. We might deliberately ignore, or avoid, or fail to feel all other human problems, but not these two, for these were too immediate and crushing in their impact, too challenging in the demand that we as individuals take the responsibility for encounter and resolution.

16. 1968 Tet Offensive My Lai Massacre
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr
Assassination of Robert Kennedy
Democratic National Convention, Chicago

17. Vital Center 1948-1968 Political consensus
Anti-communism and containment
Belief that economic growth could solve all of society’s problems
Political pluralism: a variety of ideas could compete in America
Shattered in 1968 election:
Vietnam War shows generation gap
Conservative backlash against liberalism

18. Nixon

19. Nixon New Federalism Stagflation Southern Strategy Silent Majority
Environmental Legislation
Clean Air Act, 1970
Clean Water Act, 1972
Pentagon Papers, 1971
Watergate
Resignation

20. Ford

21. Ford Pardoning Nixon Bicentennial Celebration
Energy Crisis - Caused by 1973 OPEC Embargo
WIN - Whip Inflation Now

22. Carter

23. Carter Troubled Economy Malaise/“Crisis of Confidence” Speech
CA Proposition
Department of Energy
Energy Policy
lower U.S. energy demand
reduce gasoline consumption
cut the portion of oil imported into the U.S.
ncrease domestic coal production
increase the use of solar energy
installs solar panels on the White House