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At home

At home. Mini recession as soldiers returned GI Bill, FHA and the VA help Operation Dixie and the CIO Taft Hartley Act. GI Bill. Economic Growth. Korea and NSC-68 Higher levels of education Works shifts away from agriculture White collar jobs Cheap energy Low oil prices. Baby Boom.

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At home

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  1. At home • Mini recession as soldiers returned • GI Bill, FHA and the VA help • Operation Dixie and the CIO • Taft Hartley Act

  2. GI Bill

  3. Economic Growth • Korea and NSC-68 • Higher levels of education • Works shifts away from agriculture • White collar jobs • Cheap energy • Low oil prices

  4. Baby Boom

  5. Suburbs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_2lGkEU4Xs

  6. 1950s Consumerism

  7. Women in the 50s March in to work force, two of every five married mothers worked outside the home by 1959 Popular culture pushes idea of “cult of domesticity” Benjamin Spock and “The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care” Betty Friedan and the Feminine Mystique

  8. American keeps moving • Sunbelt • Suburbs • White Flight

  9. Rock and Rollhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpzV_0l5ILI • Crossover music • Elvis • Chuck Berry

  10. New American Literature • Sylvia Plath and the Bell Jar • Hemingway and The Old Man and the Sea • Norman Mailer- The Naked and the Dead • John Updike- Run, Rabbit, Run • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible

  11. Beginning of the Cold War Division of Germany and the “iron curtain”

  12. Berlin Airlift

  13. United Nations

  14. Truman Doctrine I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.

  15. Marshall Plan

  16. America Rearms • National Security Act creates the Department of Defense, the National Security Council and the CIA

  17. NATO- North Atlantic Treaty Organization

  18. Rebuilding Asia • MacArthur and Japan • China falls to Mao

  19. McCarthyism • Smith Act- first peace time sedition act • HUAC • Hollywood Ten and Blacklist • Nixon v Alger Hiss • Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

  20. Election of 1948 • Division in Democratic party • Dixiecrats- Strom Thurmond

  21. Truman and the Fair Deal • Improved housing • Full employment • Higher minimum wage • New TVAs • Social Security • It fails!

  22. Korean War

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