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The Fifties The Four As ANXIETY, ANTI-COMMUNISM, AFFLUENCE, ALIENATION

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ANXIETY

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Cold War

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The Russian Bomb, 49

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Civil Defense Bert the Turtle Says Duck and Cover

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Our H-Bomb, 52

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Their H-bomb, 53

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New Look: Mutual Assured Destruction

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October 4, 1957

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Push Button Age

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This is Only A Test

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Fallout

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No Need to Worry

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There Wouldnt Be Such Anxiety if it wasnt for those Godless Communists!

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ANTI-COMMUNISM

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International Communism is a Disease

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Domestic Anti-Communism

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Fighting Commies at Home J. Edgar Hoover FBI Sen. Joe McCarthy 205 Names! Richard Nixon

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Execute A Few P.S. They Were Guilty

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Put A Few Behind Bars Hollywood Ten Alger Hiss

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Ruin a Few Careers Dalton Trumbo Blacklisted 13 years

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Who You Can Trust? Loyalty Oaths, 1950

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They Could Be Hiding Under Your Bed!

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You Could Bowl with One on Tuesdays

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Conformist Society: Dont Stand Out in A Crowd

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Whatever Communists Dont Like, We Like: State vs. Family

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Everyone is Getting Married

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Even in the Comics

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Post War Baby Boom

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Womans Place But, Women work more as decade goes on

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Gender Roles Very Clear

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Return of the Full Figured Star

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TV Tells us How to Behave Cult of Domesticity

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Heroes and Villains

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Atheism vs. Godliness Stalin Tears Down Moscows Cathedral To Build.

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We Get More Religious

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Under God

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Family, Religion, Gender Roles Separate Us from Communists But, Bottom Line, Were Also Far Wealthier Highest Standard of Living in History

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AFFLUENCE

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U.S. Economic Dominance After World War II U.S. Produces 45% of World Economy

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G.I. Bill

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Marshall Plan, 1947 $13 Billion in aid to Western Europe Especially France and Italy why? Huge Success Home & Abroad

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Suburbs $10,000 homes FHA and VA Loans

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Business and Labor Harmony Big Labor Prospers Good Pay, 40 hour week Factory Workers Buy Homes 60% Americans Are Home Owners Big Business Booms

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Credit Cards Diners Club, 1950 Sears cards for the rest of us

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Interstate Highway System

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Vacation and Leisure

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New Industries

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Consumption is Patriotic!

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ALIENATION

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Exlusion = Alienation De Jure or De Facto, It Still Spells Segregation

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Suburban American Dream?

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Public Accomodations Rosa Parks, 1955 Martin Luther King Why Ministers? Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1956

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The Warren Court Brown v Board of Education, 1954

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School Integration

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Conformity = Alienation

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Abstract Expressionism Jackson Pollock

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BeBop Charlie Parker Dizzie Gillespie

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Literature: Chaos, Spontaneity, Alienation Burroughs, Ginsburg, Kerouac The BEATS

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Sex Which View Represented the 50s? Playboy 1953

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Youth culture and rebellion Anti-Materialism, Anti-Conformity Marlon Brando James Dean

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Extreme Comics

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Birth of RocknRoll

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A 5th A??

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Anticipation

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The Fifties The Four As ANXIETY, ANTI-COMMUNISM, AFFLUENCE, ALIENATION