Ch 29-30: Postwar Anxiety: Cold War, Conformity and the Affluence Façade

Ch 29-30: Postwar Anxiety: Cold War, Conformity and the Affluence Façade

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Ch 29-30: Postwar Anxiety: Cold War, Conformity and the Affluence Façade

  1. Domestic Policy
  2. Socioeconomic
  3. Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (GI Bill of Rights)1944
  4. Removal of wartime price and wage controls
  5. Taft-Hartley Labor Act 1947
  6. “right to work laws”
  7. Wealth Concentration Gap
  8. Culture of Consumption
  9. Credit Card
  10. Puritan Conception of Debt Immorality and Thrift Godliness replaced by
  11. Personal Indebtedness a Virtue not a vice
  12. Fragility Unpatriotic (IE 2008 Great Recession “Buy”)
  13. Television Advertisement
  14. AFL-CIO
  15. Baby Boom
  16. Suburbia
  17. Levittown
  18. White Flight
  19. Shelley v. Kramer 1948 (Housing Covenants)
  20. Car Status Symbol
  21. Great Black Migration
  22. 5 million post 1945
  23. 1960 more AA in urban centers than rural
  24. Pervasive Prejudice
  25. Employment/housing/education/social life
  26. Race Riots (Chicago had 9 b/n 1945 and 1954)
  27. Anti-discrimination Advocacy Groups (NAACP/CORE/Urban League)
  28. Better-off than Jim Crow South
  29. Latin American Migration
  30. Mexican American
  31. Renewed Bracero program
  32. GI Bill Benefits
  33. Puerto Rican Migration (1mil 1940-1960)
  34. Culture of Conformity
  35. White Collar Jobs
  36. Service Industries
  37. Return to Cult of Domesticity
  38. Religious Revival
  39. “In God We Trust”
  40. Faith is Patriotic
  41. Not Soviet atheism
  42. Gospel of Good News
  43. The Power of Positive Thinking, Norman Vincent Peale
  44. Critics
  45. John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society 1958
  46. Sustaining econ growth not solving social issues
  47. Poverty pervasive urban and rural settings
  48. John Keats, The Crack in the Picture window 1956
  49. Materialistic, homogenous segregation
  50. Individual struggle for survival against mass conformity
  51. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye
  52. Ralph Ellison (AA writer), invisible Man
  53. Alienation amid affluence
  54. AA struggle to liberate self from oppressive white affluent society
  55. Painting
  56. Jackson Pollock’s Abstract Expressionism art
  57. Action painting by dripping to express inner self
  58. The Beats
  59. Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg
  60. Apolitical: individual solutions not social to anxieties
  61. Reflect anti-establishment philosophy of hippie culture
  62. Teen Subculture
  63. Teen specific consumer products
  64. Juvenile Delinquency
  65. Liberation via the automobile
  66. Rock and Roll
  67. Alienated Members of 1950s conformity became leaders of the Counterculture Movement of 1960s
  68. Dynamic Conservatism
  69. Conservative monetary policy
  70. Liberal social/human policy
  71. Safeguard against “Creeping Socialism”
  72. Govt largesse
  73. Deficit spending
  74. RFC eliminated
  75. Reduce farm subsidies
  76. Reduce defense spending
  77. Lower taxes
  78. Relax business regulation
  79. Restore state power
  80. Pragmatic Conservatism Prevailed
  81. New Deal Not Dismantled
  82. Actually extended
  83. Social Security Expanded to
  84. White collar professionals
  85. Domestic and clerical workers
  86. Armed forces
  87. Minimum wage increased
  88. Public housing or low income
  89. Federal Highway Act
  90. Civil Rights
  91. Committee on Civil Rights
  92. Jackie Robinson Integrates Baseball
  93. Fair Deal
  94. New Deal Coalition
  95. Unions
  96. Farmers
  97. African Americans
  98. Civil Rights Bill
  99. Education Aid
  100. Expand Unemployment and Retirement Benefits
  101. Health Care System
  102. Public Housing
  103. Rural Electrification
  104. Increase minimum wage
  105. Dixiecrat Party
  106. Democratic Solid South Slow Transition to Republicanism by 1980
  107. McCarthyism
  108. HUAC
  109. Alger Hiss Trial
  110. I married a Communist 1949
  111. Smith Act
  112. McCarran Internal Security Act
  113. Eisenhower refused to publically criticize McCarthy
  114. Army-McCarthy Senate Hearings
  115. Blacklisting
  116. Hollywood 10
  117. Executive Order 1953
  118. Denied clemency to Rosenbergs
  119. Execution of Rosenbergs
  120. African-American Civil Rights Movement
  121. Racial discrimination propagandized by Soviets
  122. Eisenhower preferred state/local govt action over social issues
  123. Doubted laws could change racist attitudes
  124. The Warren Court
  125. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
  126. Citizens’ Councils
  127. Montgomery Bus Boycott
  128. Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
  129. Mild Civil Rights Acts
  130. 1957 Civil Rights Commission
  131. 1960 Federal Courts Register Black Voters
  132. Little Rock Nine 1957
  133. Foreign Policy
  134. National Security Act 1947
  135. National Military Establishment
  136. National Security Council
  137. Central Intelligence Agency
  138. Cold War
  139. Causes
  140. WWII Origins
  141. Ideological Conflict
  142. Political Insecurity
  143. Truman Doctrine
  144. Containment
  145. Soviet Buffer Zone
  146. Permanent National Military Establishment
  147. Intelligence Gathering
  148. Growth of Federal Government and Executive Military Powers
  149. Peacetime Alliances
  150. UN Security Council
  151. Conventional/Orthodox View of Cause
  152. Revisionist View of Cause
  153. Polish Committee of National Liberation
  154. Iron Curtain
  155. Keenan’s “Long Telegram” on Containment
  156. Truman Doctrine
  157. Marshall Plan
  158. Molotov Plan
  159. Allied Occupation Zones (of Germany)
  160. Berlin Airlift
  161. German Democratic Republic
  162. NATO
  163. Warsaw Pact
  164. State of Israel Recognized 1948
  165. Chinese Communist Revolution
  166. NSC-68
  167. Korean War
  168. 38th Parallel
  169. North Korean Invasion
  170. Pusan Perimeter
  171. Inchon Landing
  172. MacArthur-Truman Conflict

Postwar Insecurity: The Cold War, Social Conformity and Civil Rights

Ch 29-Ch 30

Foreign Policy Reflection Questions:

  1. Cold War Origins pre-WWII to 1945
  2. Describe the ideological conflict inherent between capitalism and communism. What historical factors motivated the design of communism?
  3. What events in WWII contributed to the air of insecurity and mistrust at the heart of the Cold War?
  4. Cold War Heating Up 1945-1960
  5. Create a chart depicting events that caused the Cold War to heat up abroad and how the United States responded to these events?
  6. Create a chart reflecting examples of the Cold War conflict at home and how the United States responded to these events?
  7. Compare and Contrast the Truman Doctrine and the Eisenhower Massive Retaliation/Brinksmanship foreign policies.
  8. Why did the United States involve itself in the Vietnam civil conflict? What did Eisenhower mean by the “domino theory”?

Domestic Policy Reflection Questions 1945-1960:

  1. Social Conformity:
  2. Describe and account for the causes and effects of the culture on consumption that defined 1950s America.
  3. Describe and account for the causes and effects of the culture of conformity that defined 1950s America.
  4. What contrarian viewpoints emerged in the 1950s to challenge social conformity?
  5. Social Reform:
  6. Create a VGO to compare and contrast The New Deal, Fair Deal and Dynamic Conservatism philosophies and policies.
  7. Create an annotated timeline reflecting the historical evolution of the African-American Civil Rights Movement from the Double V Campaign to the 1960 Civil Rights Act. Account for efforts to slowdown or restrict efforts to expand civil rights during this period.
  8. Economic Challenges:
  9. Analyze the attached Bureau of Labor Statistics chart and related secondary source summary; then, answer the related questions.
  10. Was the post-war economic recovery another Gilded Age? Why/why not?

Identifications:

  1. Military-Industrial Complex
  2. The American Family: Fact and Fiction

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