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Alan Brinkley, AMERICAN HISTORY 12/e
Chapter Thirty:
The Affluent Society
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Chapter Thirty:
The Affluent Society
Introduction Affluence and Inequality
The American Birth
Rate 1940-1960
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Chapter Thirty:
The Affluent Society
“The Economic Miracle”
– Sources of Economic Growth
Government Spending
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Chapter Thirty:
The Affluent Society
“The Economic Miracle”
– Sources of Economic Growth
Government Spending
Suburban Growth
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Chapter Thirty:
The Affluent Society
“The Economic Miracle”
– The Rise of the Modern West
Population Growth
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Chapter Thirty:
The Affluent Society
“The Economic Miracle”
– The Rise of the Modern West
Population Growth
Favorable Climate
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Chapter Thirty:
The Affluent Society
The “Economic Miracle”
– The New Economics
Keynesian Economics
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Chapter Thirty:
The Affluent Society
The “Economic Miracle”
– The New Economics
Keynesian Economics
Ending Poverty through Economic Growth
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Chapter Thirty:
The Affluent Society
The “Economic Miracle”
– Capital and Labor
Corporate Consolidation
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Chapter Thirty:
The Affluent Society
The “Economic Miracle”
– Capital and Labor
Corporate Consolidation
The “Postwar Contract”
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Chapter Thirty:
The Affluent Society
The “Economic Miracle”
– Capital and Labor
Corporate Consolidation
The “Postwar Contract”
AFL-CIO
Workers Represented by
Unions, 1920-1990
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Chapter Thirty:
The Affluent Society
The “Economic Miracle”
– Capital and Labor
Corporate Consolidation
The “Postwar Contract”
AFL-CIO
Limited Gains for Unorganized Women
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Chapter Thirty:
The Affluent Society
The Explosion of Science and Technology
– Medical Breakthroughs
Antibiotics
Antibiotics and other Pills(PhotoLink/Getty Images)
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Chapter Thirty:
The Affluent Society
The Explosion of Science and Technology
– Medical Breakthroughs
Antibiotics
Penicillin
Penicillin (E. Pollard
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Chapter Thirty:
The Affluent Society
The Explosion of Science and Technology
– Medical Breakthroughs
Antibiotics
Penicillin
Salk Vaccine
The Polio Virus (Reprinted from Schaffer et al,
Proceedings of the National
Academy of Science, 41:1020,
1955.)
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The Affluent Society
The Explosion of Science and Technology
– Pesticides
DDT
Handling Pesticide (Photo by Tim McCabe, courtesy
of USDA Natural Resources
Conservation Service)
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The Explosion of Science and Technology
– Postwar Electronic Research
Invention of Television
Television Set (c. Photodisc)
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Chapter Thirty:
The Affluent Society
The Explosion of Science and Technology
– Postwar Electronic Research
Invention of Television
Integrated Circuitry
Circuit Board (S. Meltzer/
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Getty Images)
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The Affluent Society
The Explosion of Science and Technology
– Postwar Computer Technology
UNIVAC
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Chapter Thirty:
The Affluent Society
The Explosion of Science and Technology
– Postwar Computer Technology
UNIVAC
IBM
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The Affluent Society
The Explosion of Science and Technology
– Bombs, Rockets, and Missiles
The Hydrogen Bomb
H-Bomb
Explosion (StockTrek/
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Chapter Thirty:
The Affluent Society
The Explosion of Science and Technology
– Bombs, Rockets, and Missiles
The Hydrogen Bomb
ICBMs
Launching Titan Missile (Royalty-Free/CORBIS)
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The Affluent Society
The Explosion of Science and Technology
– The Space Program
The Shock of Sputnik
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Chapter Thirty:
The Affluent Society
The Explosion of Science and Technology
– The Space Program
The Shock of Sputnik
The Creation of NASA
Launching a Satellite, 1961 (NARA)
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Chapter Thirty:
The Affluent Society
The Explosion of Science and Technology
– The Space Program
The Shock of Sputnik
The Creation of NASA
The Apollo Program
Buzz Aldrin,
August 1969 (NASA)
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Chapter Thirty:
The Affluent Society
The Explosion of Science and Technology
– The Space Program
The Shock of Sputnik
The Creation of NASA
The Apollo Program
The Space Shuttle
Space Shuttle (NASA/Getty Images)
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Chapter Thirty:
The Affluent Society
People of Plenty “Consensus”
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Chapter Thirty:
The Affluent Society
People of Plenty
– The Consumer Culture
Consumer Crazes
Electric Institute of Washington.
Dishwasher
(Library of Congress)
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Chapter Thirty:
The Affluent Society
People of Plenty
– The Landscape and the Automobile
Federal Highway Act
Freeway Interchange(PhotoLink/Getty Images)
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Chapter Thirty:
The Affluent Society
People of Plenty
– The Landscape and the Automobile
Federal Highway Act
The New Retail Landscape
Roadside Signs (Licensed for Use)
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Chapter Thirty:
The Affluent Society
People of Plenty
– The Suburban Nation
“Levittown”
Houses on Laconia Street in
a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio(Library of Congress)
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Chapter Thirty:
The Affluent Society
People of Plenty
– The Suburban Nation
“Levittown”
Appeal of Suburban Living
Chicago’s Annexation
and the Suburban Noose
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The Affluent Society
People of Plenty
– The Suburban Family
Prevailing Gender Roles
Reinforced
Woman cooking in kitchen(Index Stock/Getty Images)
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Chapter Thirty:
The Affluent Society
People of Plenty
– The Suburban Family
Prevailing Gender Roles Reinforced
Dr. Benjamin Spock
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Chapter Thirty:
The Affluent Society
People of Plenty
– The Suburban Family
Prevailing Gender Roles
Reinforced
Dr. Benjamin Spock
Feminism Weakened
Woman cooking in kitchen(Index Stock/Getty Images)
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Chapter Thirty:
The Affluent Society
People of Plenty
– The Birth of Television
Social Consequences of Television
Teaching television studio, Annenberg School of
Communications, University of Pennsylvania
(Library of Congress)
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The Affluent Society
People of Plenty
– The Birth of Television
Social Consequences
of Television
Television‟s
Homogenizing Message
The cast of Leave it to Beaver(Library of Congress)
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The Affluent Society
People of Plenty
– Travel, Outdoor Recreation, and Environmentalism
Echo Park
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Chapter Thirty:
The Affluent Society
People of Plenty
– Travel, Outdoor Recreation, and Environmentalism
Echo Park
Sierra Club Reborn
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The Affluent Society
People of Plenty
– Organized Society and Its Detractors
Growth of Specialized Education
Georgetown Preparatory School.
Rifles at Georgetown Preparatory
School (Library of Congress)
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The Affluent Society
People of Plenty
– Organized Society and Its Detractors
Growth of Specialized Education
The Organization Man and The Lonely Crowd
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The Affluent Society
People of Plenty
– The Beats and the Restless Culture of Youth
The Beat Generation‟s Critiques
“Robot Apartments! Invincible suburbs! Skeleton treasuries! blind capitals! demonic industries!”
Allen Ginsberg
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The Affluent Society
People of Plenty
– The Beats and the Restless Culture of Youth
The Beat Generation‟s Critiques
“Juvenile Delinquency”
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Chapter Thirty:
The Affluent Society
People of Plenty
– The Beats and the Restless Culture of Youth
The Beat Generation‟s Critiques
“Juvenile Delinquency”
James Dean
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The Affluent Society
People of Plenty
– Rock „n‟ Roll
Elvis Presley
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Chapter Thirty:
The Affluent Society
People of Plenty
– Rock „n‟ Roll
Elvis Presley
Rock „n‟ Roll‟s Black Roots
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Chapter Thirty:
The Affluent Society
People of Plenty
– Rock „n‟ Roll
Elvis Presley
Rock „n‟ Roll‟s Black Roots
“Payola” Scandals
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The Affluent Society
The “Other America”
– On the Margins of the Affluent Society
The Other America
“The entire invisible land of the other Americans became a ghetto, a modern poor farm for the rejects of society and the economy.”
Michael Harrington
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The “Other America”
– On the Margins of the Affluent Society
The Other America
Persistent Poverty
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The Affluent Society
The “Other America”
– Rural Poverty
Declining Agricultural Prices
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The Affluent Society
The “Other America”
– The Inner Cities
Black Urban Migration
African-American
Migration 1950-1980
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Chapter Thirty:
The Affluent Society
The “Other America”
– The Inner Cities
Black Urban Migration
“Urban Renewal”
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The Affluent Society
The Rise of the Civil Rights Movement
– The Brown Decision and “Massive Resistance”
Brown v. Board of Education
George E.C. Hayes, Thurgood Marshall, and
James Nabrit congratulating each other, following
Supreme Court decision declaring segregation
unconstitutional, 1954 (Library of Congress)
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The Rise of the Civil Rights Movement
– The Brown Decision and “Massive Resistance”
Brown v. Board of Education
“Separate but Equal”
Doctrine Overturned
George E.C. Hayes, Thurgood Marshall, and
James Nabrit congratulating each other, following
Supreme Court decision declaring segregation
unconstitutional, 1954 (Library of Congress)
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Chapter Thirty:
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The Rise of the Civil Rights Movement
– The Brown Decision and “Massive Resistance”
Brown v. Board of Education
“Separate but Equal” Doctrine Overturned
“Massive Resistance”
Burning Cross (Licensed for Use)
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Chapter Thirty:
The Affluent Society
The Rise of the Civil Rights Movement
– The Brown Decision and “Massive Resistance”
Brown v. Board of Education
“Separate but Equal” Doctrine Overturned
“Massive Resistance”
Little Rock
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The Rise of the Civil Rights Movement
– The Expanding Movement
Montgomery Bus Boycott
5,000 at Meeting Outline Boycott; Bullet
Clips Bus." Montgomery, Alabama, Bus
Boycott. Montgomery Advertiser,
December 6, 1955. (Library of Congress)
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The Rise of the Civil Rights Movement
– The Expanding Movement
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Martin Luther King‟s Strategy
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The Affluent Society
The Rise of the Civil Rights Movement
– Causes of the Civil Rights Movement
Legacy of World War II
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Chapter Thirty:
The Affluent Society
The Rise of the Civil Rights Movement
– Causes of the Civil Rights Movement
Legacy of World War II
Urban Black Middle Class
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Chapter Thirty:
The Affluent Society
The Rise of the Civil Rights Movement
– Causes of the Civil Rights Movement
Legacy of World War II
Urban Black Middle Class
Television and Popular Culture
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The Affluent Society
Eisenhower Republicanism
– “What Was Good for…General Motors”
Business Leaders‟ New Outlook
Dwight D. Eisenhower(Library of Congress)
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Eisenhower Republicanism
– The Survival of the Welfare State
Expansion of New Deal Policies
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Chapter Thirty:
The Affluent Society
Eisenhower Republicanism
– The Survival of the Welfare State
Expansion of New Deal Policies
Federal Highway Act of 1956
Texas Highway (Donovan Reese/Getty Images)
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Eisenhower Republicanism
– The Decline of McCarthyism
Army-McCarthy Hearings
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Eisenhower, Dulles, and the Cold War
– Dulles and “Massive Retaliation”
“Massive Retaliation” and “Brinksmanship”
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Chapter Thirty:
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Eisenhower, Dulles, and the Cold War
– Dulles and “Massive Retaliation”
“Massive Retaliation” and “Brinksmanship”
Economic Benefits of “Massive Retaliation”
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Eisenhower, Dulles, and the Cold War
– France, America, and Vietnam
Dien Bien Phu
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The Affluent Society
Eisenhower, Dulles, and the Cold War
– Cold War Crises
Recognizing Israel
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Chapter Thirty:
The Affluent Society
Eisenhower, Dulles, and the Cold War
– Cold War Crises
Recognizing Israel
Suez Crisis
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Chapter Thirty:
The Affluent Society
Eisenhower, Dulles, and the Cold War
– Cold War Crises
Recognizing Israel
Suez Crisis
Fidel Castro
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The Affluent Society
Eisenhower, Dulles, and the Cold War
– Europe and the Soviet Union
Hungarian Revolution of 1956
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Chapter Thirty:
The Affluent Society
Eisenhower, Dulles, and the Cold War
– The U-2 Crisis
Eisenhower‟s Restraint
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Patterns of Popular Culture:
Lucy and Desi
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