1. AIM: What was life like in America after WWII?

2. McCarthy’s Witch hunt Senator Joseph McCarthy: McCarthyism
strong anti-Communist activist
McCarthyism
attacking suspected Communists without evidence
McCarthy says Communists in State Department – names?
Republican - winning strategy for 1952?
Downfall: Televised hearings - bullying witnesses - - TV in 1950s!!!

3. Red Scare Fear of communists HUAC formed investigates Communist ties
Hollywood Ten – Who are they?
refuse to testify, sent to prison
Blacklist: people with
“Communist” ties, cannot get work

4. Red Scare – SPIES add fear
Alger Hiss
accused of spying for Soviet Union -convicted of perjury
Ethel & Julius Rosenberg
Did the USSR steal the secret to the BOMB?
Implicated in the case – pleaded 5th!
Executed

5. America Begins to prosperhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_1jkLxhh20
Baby Boom
Impacts economy, educational system
Dr. Jonas Salk - Advances in Medicine

6. Housing Crunch 10 million returning veterans: housing shortage
Build suburbs: small residential communities around cities
The Interstate Highway System
Local, state roads link cities, suburbs to schools, shops, work

7. A portion of Levittown, a mass-produced suburb on Long Island, New York, 25 miles east of Manhattan (1948).

8. Elvis Rocks! Rock ‘n’ roll is born!
Elivis: King of Rock ‘n’ Roll takes it to frantic pitch
Adults condem

9. The Interstate Highway System
Local, state roads link cities, suburbs to schools, shops, work
Interstate Highway Act—nationwide highway network unites country
Highways enable long-haul trucking, new towns, family vacations
Towns near highways prosper; those near older, smaller roads decline