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. This is Only A Test…

16. Push Button Age

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. CONTAINMENT STALEMATE more than VICTORY Truman Doctrine, ’47 Marshall Plan, ‘48 Berlin Blockade/Airlift, ’48-’49 NATO, ‘49 Korean War, ’50-’53

24. Domestic Anti-Communism

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

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

27. Put A Few Behind Bars Hollywood Ten Alger Hiss

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

29. Who You Can Trust? Loyalty Oaths, 1950

30. They Could Be Hiding Under Your Bed!

31. You Could Bowl with One on Tuesdays

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

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

34. Everyone is Getting Married

35. Even in the Comics

36. Post War Baby Boom

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

38. Gender Roles Very Clear

39. Return of the Full Figured Star

40. TV Tells us How to Behave Cult of Domesticity

41. Heroes and Villains

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

43. We Get More Religious

44. “Under God…”

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

46. AFFLUENCE

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

48. G.I. Bill

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

50. Consumption is Patriotic!

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

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

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

54. Interstate Highway System

55. Vacation and Leisure

56. New Industries

57. ALIENATION Who are These Malcontents?

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

59. 19 Million Blacks Are A Little Tired of This De Jure or De Facto, It Still Spells Segregation

60. Suburban American Dream?

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

62. School Integration

63. Abstract Expressionism Jackson Pollock

64. Extreme Comics

65. BeBop Charlie Parker Dizzie Gillespie

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

67. SEX! -- Alfred Kinsey Sexual Behavior ’48 Males ’53 Females

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

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

71. POPULAR MUSIC First Teen Market 45’s and Radio Shows Elvis Presley changes everything

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