Ch. 27 An Affluent Society
Ch. 27 An Affluent Society 1952-1960
The Golden Age
Economic Growth
Poverty Rates
Workforce- white collar vs blue collar
West Coast Growth
South
Suburban Nation
What were element in suburbanization?
What changed the landscape?
How were western cities different from the East coast cities?
TV
How does television change America?
Women at work and Home
How were women portrayed in film and on TV?
What does feminism do at the time?
Segregated Landscape
How was the US segregating during the 1950s?
Was this a concerted effort?
Divided Society
Demographics of suburbs and inner city ‘ghettos’
What does the author say about white perception and inner cities?
Religion and Anti-Communism
What was religions role in the Cold War?
What rhetoric did they use?
Does the author give details of situation inside communistic countries as examples of religious persecution?
Does this affect the argument over the rhetoric of anti-communism by the various churches?
Selling Free Enterprise
Freedom and capitalism
How are they intertwined in the 1950s?
What seems to take precedence?
Libertarian Conservatism vs New Conservatism
How are they the same? How are the different?
Eisenhower
Nixon VP
How does Ike define Modern Republicanism?
New Deal under Ike? What does he tell the party about altering it?
Interstate Highway System
Sputnik and National Defense Education Act
“Social Contract”
Unions and Industry
Massive Retaliation
John Foster Dulles
MAD –what does this mean?
What were the consequences of these theories?
Ike and Soviets
What’s his foreign policy towards Soviets when Stalin dies?
Khrushchev –what are his aims?
“Thaw”
Hungary
Third World
How do they deal with the Cold war powers?
Decolonization
Where first, how does this affect the Cold War?
Mossadegh and Guzman
CIA—How is it used in this period?
Suez Crisis
Who is involved and why?
How does this affect the Cold War?
Vietnam
How does US get involved?
How does the Cold War affect this?
Mass Society and its Critics
What was mass society at this time?
What are some criticisms?
Rebels without a cause—who are these people?
Culture of 1950s
Music, TV, Movies, etc…
Who is the major consumer by this time and why?
Beats
Who are they, what is their message?
Freedom Movement
Origins
NAACP and LULAC
Brown vs Board of Education
Thurgood Marshal
Chief Justice Earl Warren
What is his role in this era of civil rights?
What were some of the results of Brown?
Montgomery Bus Boycotts and Massive Resistance
Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King
SCLC –what is the function of this org?
What are MLK’s tactics? Who inspired them?
Eisenhower and Civil Rights
What was his initial reaction?
How does he deal with desegregation?
How did other nations react to the US and Civil Rights?
How did the Soviet Union use the Civil Rights movement?
Election of 1960
John F. Kennedy
“Missile Gap”—what’s this mean? Why is this controversial?
What issues with his candidacy?
Nixon and JFK-foreign Policy
Nixon and JFK debate—what was different about this debate?
Who won the debate?
Election controversy?
End of 1950s
Eisenhower’s Farewell Address
What does he tell the American people?
What is the reaction?
What issues that are starting to emerge by the end of the 1950s?
