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Week 13 Topics Suburban Growth
Writing Assignment #3: Assess California’s economic, social, and political developments since WWII
Paper Due May 13 Wed
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Bracero Program 1942-1964 http://www.farmworkers.org/bpaccord.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UqmPYQ_Vb0
Braceros in Los Angeles in 1942.
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• Japanese-American Internment – The military persuaded FDR to issue Executive Order
9066.
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A 1942 photograph by Dorothea Lange
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkeXCQkro_c&feature=related
Sleepy Lagoon case 1942-1944
• On August 2, 1942 Jose Diaz was found dead in the Sleepy Lagoon.
• The young Mexican Americans were convicted. Aztec rituals were used as evidence of the violent nature of Mexican Americans
• In October, 1944, the Court of Appeal of the State of California reversed the convictions
• Zoot-Suit Riots in Los Angeles
– Clyde Duncan, Harlem, inspired by the film Gone with the Wind http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mM8iNarcRc
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zKP-_oIADg
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orhf_Xv6HCA
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Zoot-Suit Riots https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwINn5DEL1c
• 1943 LA Pachuco Riots
• June 3, 1943 sailors attacked Mexican-Americans ------------
• By June 9 State Department declared LA off limits to military
• Factors – racial prejudice stimulated by police
practices & inflammatory newspaper reports
• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/zoot/eng_sfeature/sf_lamap.html#
The End of the War
• Harry Truman
• The Manhattan Project
– Atomic bomb
• The Dawn of the Atomic Age
– August 6, 1945 Hiroshima
– August 9, 1945 Nagasaki
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Socialism
• Any theories that call for the collective or government ownership of the means of production.
• A stage of society in Marxism between capitalism and communism
• A lot of varieties
Communism
• A theory that calls for the end of private property
• A doctrine based on Marxian socialism
• A totalitarian government in which a single party controls state-owned means of production.
Origins of the Cold War
• The Two Powers
– The only power that could rival the United States was the Soviet Union.
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McCarthyism
– Campaign to rid the of U.S. of communist infiltrators
– Targeted groups • Union leaders
• College professors
• actors
– After the war, the American economy enjoyed remarkable growth.
– USA economy 1950s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mctiO5FWWWI9 mins
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Figure 24.1 Real Gross Domestic Product Per
Capita, 1790–2000
• A Suburban Nation
– The main engines of economic growth: residential construction & spending on consumer goods.
– California became the most prominent symbol of the postwar suburban boom.
25 An aerial view of Westchester, a community
in Los Angeles
Suburban Living: The Typical TV Suburban
Families The Donna Reed Show 1958-1966
Leave It to Beaver 1957-1963
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
JPnG1-CbkYM
Father Knows Best 1954-1958
The Ozzie & Harriet Show 1952-1966
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-qk4FMTkKo
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– legal challenges to the “Separate but Equal” in
• 1896 in Plessy v. Ferguson.
–Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas • Segregated schools violated the equal protections of
• the law guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment
Writing Assignment #3: Assess California’s economic, social, and political developments.
Describe the major political, economic, and social developments in California since the beginning of WWII.
(Why does California experience tremendous population growth? What are the economic opportunities in California? What are the politics that turned California into a leader in aerospace and defense? What are California’s social changes and challenges in terms of race relations?
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