1. Fabulous Fifties
Cold War to Rock N Roll

2. Korean War
Korea had been split into two countries after WWII – North Korea – Communist and South Korea – Non-communist
June 1950 – Communist N. Korea attacks Non-Communist South Korea
Truman requests the UN to send soldiers
What year did the Korean War begin and Why?
Who requested troops from the United Nations?

3. Korean War
1950 –1953 – UN forces headed by MacArthur lands to free South Korea from North Korean Communist aggression in Sept 1950
China enters war on North Korean side. MacArthur wants to bomb China – Truman refused
MacArthur criticizes Truman in public and is fired
Who led the UN troops in South Korea?

4. Korea
Location of Korea in Asia
Korea is located west of what country?

5. Korean War Ends
1952 – Dwight D Eisenhower is elected President – hinted that US was considering using the atomic bomb
1953 Armistice is signed
Cost to US 54,000 lives in 3 years and billions of dollars
Who is elected President in 1952 who threatened to end the war with the use of nuclear weapons?
When did the armistice end the Korean War?

6. McCarthyism 1950’s version of the Red Scare
HUAC – House Un-American Activities Committee assignment was to look for Communist influence in America.
Two famous cases brought Communism to hysteria levels in the US
What was McCarthyism?

7. Alger Hiss Worked in the State Department Accused of spying
for the Soviets by
hiding important State
Dept secrets in a
pumpkin

8. Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
Soviets explode bomb
in 1949
Convicted of giving
secrets to the soviets
on how to build the
atomic bomb
Convicted and
electrocuted in 1953

9. Eisenhower Interstate System
Ike spent 30 billion on 40,000 miles of new highways
He realized the importance of getting men and supplies from one place to another in a national emergency

10. Baby Boomers
Between 1945 and 1960, the nation grew from 140 million to 180 million
Returning Soldiers married and had children
Suburbs grew – Levittown
TV became widely available

11. Movie Idols
Marilyn Monroe
James Dean

12. Rock N Roll
Elvis Presley
Fats Domino

13. Civil Rights Movement Begins
1954 Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education
Segregation is a denial of equal protection under the law - therefore illegal

14. Thurgood Marshall Argued the Brown case for the NAACP
Became the first African-American Supreme Court Justice

15. Rosa Parks
1955 she refused to give up her seat to a white man once the bus was filled.
Parks was arrested for Civil Disobedience
NAACP organized the Montgomery Bus boycott.
Martin Luther King was asked to speak at a rally

16. Boycott Ends
1956 – Supreme Court ruled that Montgomery’s Segregation law was unconstitutional.

17. Little Rock, Arkansas
Little Rock Nine were going to attend a white school under court order
Governor ordered the National Guard to surround the school to keep them out.
President Eisenhower had to provide federal troops to escort the students into school.

18. Non- Violent Protests Sit Ins Refusal to move until demands are met -
Freedom Rides
Whites would sit at the back of the bus and blacks would sit at the front
At terminals blacks would try to use the “whites only” water fountains, bathrooms etc.

19. Birmingham Bombing
1957 a church was bombed killing four young children in Sunday School.
Suspect now just going to trial

20. Martin Luther King 1963- SCLC organizes March on Washington to protest
King gives his “I have a Dream” speech
1964 – Civil Rights Act passed that prohibits a state from using different voting standards for blacks and whites.
Gave federal gov’t right to integrate schools.

21. 24th Amendment 1964 – Outlawed Poll taxes
( Poll taxes are fees people pay to vote)

22. Malcolm X Part of Black Muslims Hatred for whites – Black Supremacy
Converted to Islam
Rejected King’s Non-Violence approach
Went to Mecca
After Mecca he no longer supported Black Supremacy
1965 gunned down by members of his former organization the Black Muslims
Who was the Black Muslim leader who advocated Black Supremacy when MLK was preaching Non-violence?