2. 1940s Facts Presidents Roosevelt and Truman Population 132,122,000
National Debt $43 Billion
Average Salary $1,299.
Minimum Wage $.43 per hour
55% of U.S. homes have indoor plumbing
Antarctica is discovered to be a continent
Life expectancy 68.2 female, 60.8 male
Auto deaths 34,500
Supreme Court decides blacks do have a right to vote
World War II changed the order of world power, the  United States and the USSR became super powers

3. 1940s – WWII Dominates 8 Million + men and women serve
Enlistments “for the duration”
Rationing, Women in Workforce, Fear of Attack
Discovery of Holocaust boosts Civil Rights
War propels US as #1 power in World
Music – Morale Boosting

4. The Cold War WWII Ends – Cold War Begins Communism vs. Capitalism
Containment (Kennan)
Domino Theory
Marshall Plan
Berlin Crisis

5. Cold War (cont.)
Sen. McCarthy (House Un-American Activities Committee)
Rosenbergs
1949 – 3 Major Events
USSR Gets the Bomb
China becomes Communist
NATO / Warsaw Pact formed

6. Technology of the 1940s
Plastics
Television
Cars
Jets / Rockets
Radar

7. Cultural Changes of the 1940s
GI Bill
Baby Boom
Suburbs – Levittown TV
Fashion
Women’s Pants
Pre - Packaged Foods

9. Facts about the 1950s
FACTS about this decade.  Presidents – Truman and Eisenhower
Population: 151,684,000 Unemployed: 3,288,000 Life expectancy: women 71.1, men Car Sales: 6,665,800 0  Average salary: $2,992 Labor force male/female: 5/2 Cost of a loaf of bread: $0.14 Bomb shelter plans, like the government pamphlet You Can Survive, become widely available

10. The Korean War 1950-1953 Korea was split North and South after WWII
Communist North Korea invades Capitalist South
UN and US send troops to South
US forces push N Korea back over the border, then forward toward China
China enters the war, pushes US back
War stalemates, ends as a stalemate
Never officially ends, result is Status Quo Ante-Bellum
US troops still on border
Example of Containment

12. Brown v. Board of Ed 1954
On heels of military de-segregation of Korean War
School system in Topeka, KS was segregated, Brown family sues to send child to “white” school
Decision overturns Plessy v. Ferguson (Separate but Equal)
Rules that school segregation is un-constitutional
Paves the way to strike down all segregation laws
Ike uses National Guard to enforce de-segregation

14. Other Key Civil Rights Moments of the era
1955 – Emmet Till
1955 – Rosa Parks, Montgomery, MLK, SCLC
1957 – Little Rock 9

15. Key Civil Rights Events of the 1960s
1960 – SNCC formed (Carmichael), Greensboro Sit In
1961 – Freedom Riders (CORE)
1962 – James Meredith / Ole Miss
1963
Birmingham – Bull Connor, Letter from Birmingham Jail, 16th Street Church Bombed
Medgar Evers
March on Washington, I Have a Dream
1964 – Civil Rights Act of 1964, Freedom Summer, 3 Missing CR Workers
1965 – Malcolm X, Voting Rights Act, March on Selma, Watts Riots
1966 – Black Panthers formed
1967 – Carmichael coins “black power”
1968 – MLK

16. Types of Protest Court Cases Bus Boycott Sit Ins
Voter Registration Drives
March on Washington
Freedom Rides
Use of TV
Rioting
Community Programs

17. Government Response Korean War De-segregation
1954 Federal Troops supporting Court
FBI monitoring of Civil Rights Leaders
Minimal KKK prosecution
1964 Civil Rights Act

19. Key Groups of the Civil Rights Movement
NAACP
SCLC
SNCC
CORE
Nation of Islam
Black Panthers

21. The Cold War in the 1950s Containment / Domino Theory still dominate
Development of H-Bombs
Kruschev replaces Stalin
Peaceful Co-existence?
US intervention in Guatemala\
Dien Bien Phu – Start of US involvement in Vietnam
Massive Retaliation Doctrine
Sputnik (1957)
Castro in Cuba

22. 1950s Culture
TV Culture
Rock Music
Fashion
Cars
Fast Food

25. 1960s – Cuban Missile Crisis
Castro takes over in 1959
JFK – Elected 1960
Berlin Wall increased tension 1961
October 1962 – Photos show evidence of missile bases in Cuba
US demands they be removed, blockades Cuba
USSR sending ships to re-supply
Just before confrontation, ships turn
Closest time to all out nuclear war

26. Vietnam

28. 1960s Vietnam What was the US fighting for?
What are the major events of the war?
What terms do you need to know about the war?
What made it so hard on the soldiers who served there?
Why was the war so unpopular?
Why did the US lose?
How has the war changed the United States?

29. Major Events of the War Dien Bien Phu Geneva Conference Gulf of Tonkin
“Rolling Thunder”
Tet Offensive
My Lai
Kent State
Invasion of Laos and Cambodia
Fall of Saigon

30. What made war so hard? Who is the enemy?
Corruption of South Vietnamese government
Popularity of Ho Chi Minh
US as occupiers
Forces unsure of why they are fighting
Unpopularity at home

31. How has Vietnam changed the US today?
Generation of leaders who fought there
Idea of an “exit strategy” before committing forces
Fear of Quagmire
Growing distrust of politicians
Lose the “good guys” image
Divides country

32. Space Race

33. 1970s Population 204,879,000 Unemployed 4 million
National Debt $382 billion
Average salary $7,564
Bread $.24
Milk $1.30 per gallon
Life Expectancy 67 male 75 female

35. 1970s
Watergate
End of Vietnam
Inflation
Oil Crisis
Home Computers