1. Westward, But Not by Choice Migrant Workers, Concentration Camps and Thermonuclear Warfare

2.  Modern Times  Charlie Chaplin film (1936)  Urban factory workers seen as dehumanized, mere cogs in machine

3.  Grapes of Wrath  John Steinbeck novel (1939)  John Ford film (1940)  Academy Award, Best Director (1940)  New social significance for American film?  Sanitized Hollywood version of novel?

4. Urban vs. Rural, Again  1920: Census reports first urban majority  1930: Depression hits farm economy hardest  John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath (1939)  1940s-50s: rural US still depressed – “army of hoboes”  Late 20 th century: Cesar Chavez’s agrarian workers’ union, the United Farm WorkersCesar Chavez’s United Farm Workers  Did FDR’s New Deal...  Save U.S. from violent working-class revolution (or fascist counterrevolution)?  Socialize American economy & government?  “restore & protect corporate capitalism”? (Casper/Davies)  Fail to do enough to produce full economic recovery?

5. “Plenty of Money to be Made Selling the Army Its Tools of Trade”  Entry into WWII jumpstarts both U.S. economies  “Women – good! Japs – bad!”  Rosie the Riveter & the West Coast internment camps Rosie the Riveter West Coast internment camps  “Total war – unconditional surrender”  Aftermath – a long atomic shadow over the 1950s  Eisenhower after WWII  “military-industrial complex” warning “military-industrial complex” warning  Cold War & “Red Scare”: cause or effect of defense spending?  Women after WWII  out of the factories and back into the kitchen  Returning GI’s flood schools, suburbs – the BABY BOOM!!!