The Postwar Years at Home

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The Postwar Years at Home

• Chapter 27

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Dont Forget What it Was Like

• What was the economy like before the war?
• Describe the conditions in the US.
• What have we discussed about Americas Post War
  years at home?
• List the different topics.

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Setting the Scene

• Socially, these communities have neither
  history, tradition, nor established
  structureEveryone lives in a good
  neighborhood, there is, to use that classic
  American euphemism (using different words), no
  wrong side of the tracks.
• -Harry Henderson, The Mass-Produced Suburbs,
• Harpers 1953
• Describe how this authors feels about the
  Suburbs. Does he think they are a good thing or
  do they have negatives?

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Businesses Reorganize

• Vocab Word
• Per Capita Income The average annual income per
  person.
• Per Capita means per person

16.6 Nuggets per capita
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Vocab Conglomerate

• Conglomerate A corporation (a type of business)
  made up of three or more unrelated business.

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Vocab Franchise

• Franchise- A business sells the rights for a
  person to open one of their stores.
• A McDonalds Franchise costs over a Million
  dollars today
• Early McAdd
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vQIuXv7Y8QA4

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Television The reason people dont go outside

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vhNjEIfZlA2sfeature
  related
• I love Lucy
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vNdVl_R40e4Mfeature
  related
• Honeymooners

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Advances in Medicine

• Answer these questions?
• Can you name a famous Person with Polio?
• Have you ever met a person with Polio?

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Homework

• http//www.franklincountyauditor.com/

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The Computer Industry

• Vocab Transistor A tiny circuit device that
  amplifies (makes louder or larger) controls, and
  generates electrical signals.
• Transistor Radio (1950s) Ipod (2010s)

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Nuclear Power

• 1954 First Nuclear Powered Submarine
• 1957 First Nuclear Power Plant on land

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How it works
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Vocab Blue/White Collar

• Blue Collar

• White Collar

• Depends on manual labor
• Service industry or manufacturing
• Working class

• Used more intellectual skills
• Often college graduates
• Office Jobs

http//www.youtube.com/watch?vCaIU7IP2SVQ
White Collar Conformity
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Vocab Baby Boom

• A dramatic increase in babies being born after
  WWII
• Remember our lesson on women in the 1950s

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Moving to the Suburbs

• GI Bill of Rights
• provided ways for service men to get cheap loans
  for houses and to go to college for free
• Mass production of homes
• Made quickly a almost identical

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Cars and highways

• Suburbs too far away for public transportation
• Cars become a status symbol
• I-270 built from 1962-1971

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UGH!!! What does this have to do with anything?!?!

• What did Westerville
• look like 20, 30,
• or 40 years ago?

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To Rock or not to Rock?

• Rock n roll is sung, played and written for the
  most part by mentally deficient goons and by
  means of its almost imbecilic repetition and sly,
  lewd, in plain fact, dirty lyrics it manages to
  be the music of every side burned delinquent on
  the face of the earth.

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vj9h0MNMfKuQ

http//www.youtube.com/watch?vj9h0MNMfKuQ
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To Rock or not to Rock?

• Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel
  it, you can't help but move to it. That's what
  happens to me. I can't help it.'
  http//www.youtube.com/watch?vtpzV_0l5ILI

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Rock n Roll- doing what you want since the 1950s

• Rock and Roll was a complete rejection of white
  mainstream society
• Began as Black rhythm and blues
• Alan Freed Moondog Rock n Roll Party

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Elvis brings Rock to White audience

• Elvis Presley may seem tame but he was Lady Gaga
  and Kanye West rolled into one.
• People had to be told he was white because at the
  time they said he sounded black
• Sexual tones and flamboyant dancing scared many
  adults

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Review

• Families move to the Suburbs
• Cheap loans
• College Educations and the new white collar
  jobs
• Highways to get them to the Suburbs
• Cheap new houses

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Review

• Rock and Roll
• Comes out of an African American tradition of
  Rhythm and Blues
• Not everyone happy
• about new kind of
• music
• Who wants to share
• their song?

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The Beat Generation

• Vocab-Beatniks
• -Members of a movement that promoted being
  spontaneous, or acting at a moments notice
  without planning.

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Jack Kerouac- leader of the beat generation

• The only people for me are the mad ones, the
  ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be
  saved, desirous of everything at the same time,
  the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace
  thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow
  roman candles exploding like spiders across the
  stars and in the middle you see the blue
  centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!

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The Silent Generation

• Many children continued to conform
• Stayed in school longer than before
• More free time
• Girls begin Baby sitting
• The teen is born- 1941

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Religion is back!

• Many people had stopped attending Churches and
  Synagogues before the 1950s
• Godless Communism brings them back
• 1954- Under God added to pledge of allegiance
• 1955- In God we trust added to money

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Billy Graham- Evangelist Preacher

• A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to
  his parents will not have true respect for
  anyone.
• Billy Graham

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Home Work

• Due Monday
• Write a 2 paragraph journal entry from the
  perspective of a student your age in the 1950s.

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Find the table that corresponds to the age of
your home

• In your groups find each of your homes on the map
  of Westerville
• Do any of you live in the same neighborhood?
• Assign a group member to mark them on the board
  with group age.