The Beginning of the Cold War

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The Beginning of the Cold War
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Soviet-American Tensions

• Capitalism vs Communism
• The Yalta Conference
• The United Nations
• Occupation of Poland
• Lublin Poles vs. London Poles
• Occupation of Germany
• Atomic bomb

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The Big Three
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Containment

• Chinas fall to communism
• Chiang vs. Mao Zedong
• Revival of Japan
• Truman Doctrine
• Marshall Plan
• Sec. of State George C. Marshall
• Economic Cooperation Administration

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President Truman
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Containment (cont)

• Preparedness
• Selective Service System
• Atomic Energy Commission
• National Security Act
• Department of Defense
• National Security Council
• CIA

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Division of Germany

• Federal Republic
• Democratic Republic
• NATO
• Warsaw Pact

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U.S. Economy

• Servicemens Readjustment Act
• Labor unrest
• Strikes
• Displaced workers
• Trumans Fair Deal
• Social Security benefits
• Fair Employment Practices Act
• Conservatism
• Taft-Hartley Act

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The Election of 1948

• Democrats divided
• Dixiecrat Party
• Strom Thurmond
• Americans for Democratic Action
• Thomas Dewey-Republican
• Good for nothing Congress

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Trumans Fair Deal Revised

• Minimum wage
• Social Security
• National Housing Act
• Civil rights legislation
• Fair Employment Practices Committee
• Discrimination and Segregation

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The Korean War

• 38th Parallel
• Communist north
• Pro-western south
• A Civil War
• U.S. defense perimeter
• UN Assistance
• General Douglas MacArthur
• Chinese involvement
• The Martin Letter
• Truman fires MacArthur
• Korean war results

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General Douglas MacArthur
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The U.S. During the Korean War

• Economy
• Office of Defense Mobilization
• Labor strikes
• Anxiety grows regarding communism

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Subversion in America

• House Un-American Activities Commission
• The evils of Hollywood
• The Hollywood Ten
• blacklist
• Federal Loyalty Program
• Hoover Files
• McCarran Internal Security Act
• The Rosenberg Case
• McCarthyism
• Joseph McCarthy

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Senator Joe McCarthy
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The Rosenbergs
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Election of 1952

• Adlai Stevenson
• Dwight Eisenhower
• Richard M. Nixon
• Republican Victory

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We Like Ike
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Dwight Eisenhower
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The Good Ole 50s

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50s Hair-The Ducktail or The Flip

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50s Fashion

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Dont forget the men

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50s Fads

• 3D Glasses at the Movies
• Coonskin Caps
• Hula Hoops
• Pink-everything-even cars!
• Poodles (pink of course!)
• Telephone booth cramming!
• (U.S. record 22 at St. Marys college in CA)

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Dont try this at home

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George Burns and Gracie Allen (1950)

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How sweet it is

• The Honeymooners first aired in 1952.

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The 50s was also a time for westerns!

• Davy Crockett killed him a baer when he was only
  3

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Gunsmoke-One of the longest running westerns
aired in 1955

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Hop-along-Cassidy (1947) Roy Rogers (1951) Zorro
(1957)

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Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955-1965)

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American Bandstand attracts young viewers-and a
young Dick Clark (1956)

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How old IS Dick Clark anyway?

• Dick Clark was born Nov. 30, 1929
• He is 73!

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The 1950s TV audience loved games shows

• The 64,000 question
• To tell the truth
• The Price is rightnot Bob Barker but in 1956-
  Bill Cullen
• 21
• What is my line?
• This is your life
• Queen for a day

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Queen for a day

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What a scandal!

• At the game show peak there were 22 game shows on
  prime time tv! Until What? Game shows rigged?
  Thats right folks in 1958 a Congressional
  hearing determined that winners had been
  supplied with the answers in advance! Networks
  and sponsors decided to pull the plug on game
  shows for a while!

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The Blue Mountain Boys

• Who is that in the middle?

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Early 1950s musical artists

• Patti Page
• The Andrews Sisters
• Nat King Cole
• Guy Lombardo
• Rosemary Clooney
• Frank Sinatra
• Doris Day
• Marlene Dietrich

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1955-The birth of rock and roll

• Dean Martin Fabian
• Little Richard Frankie Avalon
• The Platters Conway Twitty
• Bill Haley and the Comets Ritchie Valens
• Pat Boone Buddy Holley
• Johnny Cash Connie Francis
• Jerry Lee Lewis
• Chuck Berry
• Ricky Nelson

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Going to a garden party

• Ricky Nelson

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Elvis Presley-The King

Thank you, thank you very much
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Elvis appears on the Ed Sullivan show in 1956

• The network wouldnt show Elvis from the waist
  down because of his sexual movementscoined
  the Elvis Pelvis

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The Good Old 1950s-An Age of Prosperity
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Rock-n-Roll is here to stay
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The Economy of the 1950s

• Reasons for economic growth
• Government spending
• American West
• Military spending
• Expansion of suburbs
• The baby boom

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A New Labor Force

• The power of unionization
• AFL-CIO
• George Meany
• Teamsters Union
• David Beck
• Jimmy Hoffa
• White collar vs blue collar

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Jimmy Hoffa (1913-1975?)
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Poverty in America in the 50s

• The Other America
• Michael Harrington
• Elderly and minorities
• Rural poverty
• Declining farm prices
• Technology
• Pesticides
• DDT
• Paul Muller
• Problems w/ DDT

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Poverty Continued

• Inner-city poverty
• Ghettoes
• Relocation of industry and jobs
• Rise in juvenile crime

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Women and the family

• The Feminine Mystique
• Renewed interest in religion
• Billy Graham
• Rock and roll culture
• Elvis
• The Beatniks

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Michael Harrington
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Science and Technology of the 1950s

• Medical Advances
• Immunizations
• Small pox
• Polio
• Polio Vaccination Act of 1955
• Results
• Infant mortality rates
• Ave. life expectancy

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Early Smallpox Vaccinations
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Technological Innovations

• Television
• Color TV
• RCAs David Sarnoff Labs.
• TV Networks
• Transistors
• Integrated circuits
• Computer Technology
• UNIVAC
• Remington Rand Co.
• 1952 Election results
• IBM

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Dwight Eisenhower (1952-1960)
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The Eisenhower Administration

• Balancing the budget
• Social security
• Interstate Highway and Defense System Act
• The demise of McCarthyism
• Army-McCarthy hearings
• The Cold War Stalemate
• brinksmanship
• U-2 Crisis

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A revised containment policy

• Iran
• Israel
• Guatemala
• Cuba
• Vietnam

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The Cold War Stalemate

• brinksmanship
• MAD-Mutually Assured Destruction

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Effects of the Nuclear Arms Race

• Military technology
• Space race
• Sputnik
• NASA
• National Defense Education Act
• Bomb shelters