ocss presentation on the 1950s america
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Life in the 50s
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The Game of Life:The 50s
• Take a game piece
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Everyone gets a car!57 Chevy
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Vets go to college•GI Bill- provided college or vocational
education to WWII vets• others go to work- non-vets get their career
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Look for your spouse!
• Ladies- Get your wife’s guide!
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You graduated from college!• Take a career card
• increase of white collar jobs- office jobs
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Spin for a TV•TVs become more popular, color TV is
invented• Odds or evens get a TV, whatever it lands
on!
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Watch TV• Father Knows Best clip
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Baby Boom!•baby boom- time period when WWII vets came home, got married, & had babies!
• Will you have twins? Spin to find out!• New vaccines, like Polio
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Buy 1st your house!•VA loan- loan for WWII vets to buy a house
• Levittown
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Some wives go to work• Spin to see you needs to go to work to
support the family, TV, cars, house, etc.• spin 4 times
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road trip!•National Interstate & Highway Safety
Act- created freeways & interstates across the country to connect the suburbs, help the car industry, & for national security
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Music!
• Elvis Presley on TV• Rock’n Roll clip
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Scared of the cold war? Go to church
• Billy Graham video
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The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald
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Impact of the assassination
• Student role playing the mock trial of Lee Harvey Oswald’