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The 1950s
March 30, 2011 - April 1, 2011
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| prosperous class in the 1950s | white middle class |
| baby boom | population explosion due to end of war, growing economy, suburbanization. -Contributes to economic prosperity |
| conglomerations | part of the business growth diversified by building all different kinds of products |
| business/labor harmony | businesses kept workers happy through Welfare Capitalism |
| Welfare Capitalism | First came in the 1920s, didn't stick. pension, paid vacations, 40 hr work week, research departments, hired psychologists to help deal with stress |
| income was spread.... | broadly |
| progressive taxation | people with higher incomes will pay a higher percentage in taxes nobody will become obscenely wealthy off their incomes |
| top tax rate in the 1950s | 91% |
| Kitchen debate | Richard nixon goes to the Soviet Union and shows a model american house. Shows the benefits of capitalism over communism. Becomes a cold war weapon against the soviet union. |
| moderate republican | Moderate Republican. conservative when it comes to money, but a liberal when it comes to human beings. |
| president who built highways | Eisenhower |
| Eisenhower is a ________ | modern republican |
| Suburbanization | movement from cities to suburbs. suburbs grow 40 times faster than cities |
| Levittown | 1957. The Levit brothers in Long Island used assembly line techniques to build houses cheaply. Very affordable houses. |
| Largest public works project | Highways -- Eisenhower justifies building them as a cold war issue, although many needed for urban sprawl and dads keeping jobs in the cities. |
| GI Bill | designed to help WWII Veterans better transition back into American Society. Offered 3 years of higher education |
| Sputnik | 1957. Soviet Union launches first manmade satellite into space. American govt starts supporting education more |
| National Defense Education Act (1958) | promotes science, language, education with federal $ |
| Television | contributes to mass culture. didn't push too much challenging material. plays a role in national politics. |
| first televised election | Kennedy vs Nixon in 1960 |
| Consensus Culture | anti-communist culture. Democrats and Republicans |
| cause / effect of decline of cities | suburbanization / cities aren't raising enough money. Cities become crime filled, drugs, violence, gambling, and dirty places |
| white flight | whites are leaving the cities |
| Redlining | Realtors would draw a red line on a map to show where whites will live and were non whites will live |
| Nuclear Fears | Cold War fears |
| deterrence, massive retaliation | US has to build up nuclear arm supply so that Soviet union knows that US would bomb soviet union into obliviion. Has to threaten Massive Retaliation. This was Eisenhower's defense strategy. |
| risks of Eisenhower's defense strategy | actually would need to follow through with threats |
| conformity | idea that Americans were becoming too conformist and losing their individualism |
| David Riesman | Sociologist who wrote The Lonely Crowd book about confromity very popular |
| William Whyte | The Organization Man turns attention to the nature of modern work. more and more people identify their own identity with their corporation. believed this undermined american indivuduals' independence |
| Alienation | women see signs of alienation. they feel they are expected to be at home |
| juvenile delinquency | JD in the suburbs. fear of kids becoming JD's |
| Marlon Brando and James Dean | The Wild One, 1954. Rebel without a cause. Not rebelling against one thing. Dissatisfaction with conformity |
| Beat Movement | small group of writers, poets, novelists, that start to break away from confromity. looked towards marginalized americans for influence |
| Rock n Roll | combined black blues and white country singers. First entrance of black culture to white kids |
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