1. The Fifties – The Four A’s ANXIETY, ANTI-COMMUNISM, AFFLUENCE, ALIENATION

2. ANXIETY

5. Cold War

6. The Russian Bomb, ‘49

7. Civil Defense Bert the Turtle Says “Duck and Cover”

9. Our H-Bomb, ‘52

10. Their H-bomb, ‘53

11. “New Look”: Mutual Assured Destruction

12. October 4, 1957

15. Push Button Age

16. This is Only A Test…

17. Fallout

19. No Need to Worry

20. There Wouldn’t Be Such Anxiety if it wasn’t for those Godless Communists!

21. ANTI-COMMUNISM

22. International Communism is a Disease

23. Domestic Anti-Communism

24. Fighting Commies at Home J. Edgar Hoover FBI Sen. Joe McCarthy 205 Names! Richard Nixon

25. Execute A Few P.S. They Were Guilty

26. Put A Few Behind Bars Hollywood Ten Alger Hiss

27. Ruin a Few Careers Dalton Trumbo – Blacklisted 13 years

28. Who You Can Trust? Loyalty Oaths, 1950

29. They Could Be Hiding Under Your Bed!

30. You Could Bowl with One on Tuesdays

31. Conformist Society: Don’t Stand Out in A Crowd

32. Whatever Communists Don’t Like, We Like: State vs. Family

33. Everyone is Getting Married

34. Even in the Comics

35. Post War Baby Boom

36. Woman’s Place But, Women work more as decade goes on

37. Gender Roles Very Clear

38. Return of the Full Figured Star

39. TV Tells us How to Behave Cult of Domesticity

40. Heroes and Villains

41. Atheism vs. Godliness Stalin Tears Down Moscow’s Cathedral To Build….

42. We Get More Religious

43. “Under God…”

44. Family, Religion, Gender Roles Separate Us from Communists But, Bottom Line, We’re Also Far Wealthier Highest Standard of Living in History

45. AFFLUENCE

46. U.S. Economic Dominance After World War II – U.S. Produces 45% of World Economy

47. G.I. Bill

48. Marshall Plan, 1947 $13 Billion in aid to Western Europe Especially France and Italy – why? Huge Success Home & Abroad

49. Suburbs $10,000 homes – FHA and VA Loans

50. Business and Labor Harmony Big Labor Prospers –Good Pay, 40 hour week –Factory Workers Buy Homes –60% Americans Are Home Owners Big Business Booms

51. Credit Cards Diners’ Club, 1950 Sears cards for the rest of us

52. Interstate Highway System

53. Vacation and Leisure

54. New Industries

55. Consumption is Patriotic!

56. ALIENATION

57. Exlusion = Alienation De Jure or De Facto, It Still Spells Segregation

58. Suburban American Dream?

59. Public Accomodations Rosa Parks, 1955 Martin Luther King – Why Ministers? Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1956

60. The Warren Court Brown v Board of Education, 1954

61. School Integration

63. Conformity = Alienation

64. Abstract Expressionism Jackson Pollock

65. BeBop Charlie Parker Dizzie Gillespie

66. Literature: Chaos, Spontaneity, Alienation Burroughs, Ginsburg, Kerouac The BEATS

67. Sex Which View Represented the 50’s? Playboy 1953

68. Youth culture and rebellion Anti-Materialism, Anti-Conformity Marlon Brando James Dean

69. Extreme Comics

70. Birth of Rock’n’Roll

71. A 5th “A”??

72. Anticipation

73. The Fifties – The Four A’s ANXIETY, ANTI-COMMUNISM, AFFLUENCE, ALIENATION