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History of the United States since 1944

History of the United States since 1944. Background to the 1940s. WWI - Treaty of Versailles Roaring 20’s / European depression ’29 stock market fall 1933 Roosevelt wins on “good neighbor” plan U.S. withdraws from Nicaragua Hitler given extraordinary powers

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History of the United States since 1944

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  1. History of the United States since 1944

  2. Background to the 1940s • WWI - Treaty of Versailles • Roaring 20’s / European depression • ’29 stock market fall • 1933 Roosevelt wins on “good neighbor” plan • U.S. withdraws from Nicaragua • Hitler given extraordinary powers • 1937 Axis treaty: Germany, Japan, Italy • 1940 U.S. and Latin American nations treaties • Hitler moves all directions at war • U.S. begins giving aid to allies

  3. 1940s • 41 Roosevelt & Churchill – Atlantic charter • Four Freedoms • Attack on Hawaii • 42 Japan and Germany stopped • War pulls Americans together • 43 War production peaks • Big Companies • American Blacks – 200 month becoming officers • 44 National elections • D-Day • Return to Philippines • IMF/ World Bank

  4. End of the War • 45 Yalta • Atomic bomb • 46 Churchill calls Soviet Union – Iron Curtain • 47 Truman doctrine • Marshall plan for recovery of Europe • First jet airplanes • 48 Elections • Truman recognizes Israel • 49 Post-war prosperity • NATO • UN • Much more verbal minorities; beginning of modern civil rights movement

  5. Beginning of the 50’s • 1950 Korean war begins • Soviet Union explodes atomic bomb • 1952 Eisenhower becomes President • Interstate highway system • Balanced economy • Television becomes popular • 1954 McCarthy hearings • Ed Sullivan show begins • Ballad of Davy Crockett • Brown v Board of Ed

  6. Late 1950s • Kerouac – on the road • Rosa Parks – civil rights • Presley – black soul/ adapted to rock & roll • Pollack – beginnings of modernism: no fixed meaning, interpretation is all • Riseman – the lonely crowd • Big business leads to social uniformity • MLK “To resist without bitterness; • to be cursed and not reply; • to be beaten and not hit back.” • 1959 – sit ins

  7. The 1960s and the Great Society • 1961-63 – height of civil unrest; forced change • ’62 - Engel v. Vitale prayer in schools • Civil rights ’63 – Voting rights ’64 • Black Panthers (Newton; Cleaver) • Watts ’65 – Detroit ’67 • ’65 – Kent State; Vatican II • ’66 – Mao, Che Guevara, Ho Chi Minh • Timothy Leary, Bob Dylan, the Beattles • ’68 – Tet, King, Kennedy • ’69 – Woodstock, Vietnam, Apollo 11 • ’69 – Chavez, Friedan, NOW

  8. 1970s • Nixon doctrine – shift responsibilities to other nations • Limits of technology • Limits of radical change • ‘70 – Earth Day; OSHA • ’72 – Head Start; Watergate • ’74 – Ford replaces Nixon • ’74 – oil shortage; limits of “friendships” • ’75 – inflation and recession • ’76 – Carter election • ’77 – malls and mass culture • ’78 – Camp David Accords • ’79 – recognition of China; Moral Majority; John Paul II

  9. 1980s • FACTS about this decade. Population: 226,546,000 National Debt: 1980 - $914,000,000,000 National Debt: 1986 - $2,000,000,000,000 Average salary: $15,757 Life Expectancy: Male 69.9  Female 77.6 Minimum Wage:  $3.10Charity: 1989 - $115,000,000,000 Donald Trump; Ronald Reagan; Sandra Day O’Conor; Geraldine Ferraro; Jesse Jackson; Medicare 1980; Tom Clancy; Stephen King; Carl Sagen; Bill Cosby; Cable TV; MTV; CNN; genetic engineering; Colin Powell; Berlin Wall

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