1. Station Activity PPT
Ms. Kwon

2. Station Activity: Chapter 41, Peace, Prosperity, and Progress
Distribute worksheet
You will be working through six stations. Follow the directions on your worksheet for each station.
*if you have your own laptop, work with someone without a laptop to finish station 1-6.
After 5-10 minutes, you will rotate to the next station.
We will debrief at the end of class (or Friday).

3. Station 1: 41.2 Postwar Politics: Readjustments and Challenges (10min)
What were the goals of Truman’s Fair Deal?
What worked?
What didn’t?
In what ways was the Taft-Hartley Act the opposite of the Fair Deal?
To answer, use the following article:
Also use p. 534 in the textbook.
*you can download Ms. Kwon’s highlighted version of the article under unit 7 folder

4. Station 2: 41.3, Economic Growth Creates an Age of Affluence (15min)
How do the following items encourage consumption?
Advertisement:
Buy Now, Pay Later (credit card):
Planned/perceived Obsolescence:
Blue Collar & White Collar
Read the textbook p.539 titled “The Workforce Shifts from Blue- to White-Collar Jobs”
Why did the shift take place?
What is an example of a blue-collar job?
What is an example of a white-collar job?

5. Station 3: 41.4 Marriage, Families, & a Baby Boom (8 min)
Watch the following video clip:
What was life like for the middle class?
What was the “baby boom”?
What was the expectation for middle class
women?

6. Station 4: 41.5 Population Shifts to Suburbs and Sunbelt States (5 min)
Analyze the images in the next 3 slides
Why was there a shift from the “Rust Belt” to the “Sunbelt” in the 1950s?
Why are the regions of the US called the “Sunbelt” and “Rustbelt”?
Use textbook p. 543 for help (if necessary)

7. Station 4: 41.5 Population Shifts to Suburbs and Sunbelt States

8. Station 4: 41.5 Population Shifts to Suburbs and Sunbelt States

9. Station 4: 41.5 Population Shifts to Suburbs and Sunbelt States

10. Station 5: 41.6 The Triumph of the Automobile (10min)
Watch the following video clip:
What are three reasons for the emergence of a “car culture” in the 1950s?
What did the cars look like?
How is a car related to your status?
How did Eisenhower justify the Interstate Highway Act?
What types of activities/job opportunities became possible thanks to cars?

11. Station 6: 41.7, Technological Advances Transform Everyday Life (10min)
Use the 2 next slides and the following links to respond to the question:
How did technological advancements change life for the American people? Give three specific examples.
Link 1:
Link 2:

12. Station 6: 41.7, Technological Advances Transform Everyday Life

13. Station 6: 41.7, Technological Advances Transform Everyday Life

14. Homework
Watch the following video link:
Read and Cornell Notes on p
Analysis options instead of a summary for your notes. Choose one of the following to add to the bottom of your notes.
Evaluate the effectiveness of the video
If you were a business owner, how could you use the Atomic Age trend to market a new product?
Was the FCDA justified in making a “preparedness” campaign in order to ensure the safety of the American people or was it simply a scare tactic to maintain conformity? Thesis Statement