unit 5: era of social change 1950 americana-----eisenhower presidency----jfk presidency---johnson...
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Unit 5: Era of Social Change
1950 AMERICANA-----EISENHOWER PRESIDENCY----JFK PRESIDENCY---JOHNSON PRESIDENCY-----CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
Baby Boom Nuclear Family
American Dream
Suburbia
1950s Americana
G.I. Bill of Rights Boom in education and homes
GI Bill of Rights passed to benefit WWII veterans low cost mortgages, low-interest loanseducation benefits.
Effects:Helped create a middle class Increased racial inequality( many benefits weren’t given
to A.A.
T.V.
TV ownership rose as the cost of owning them dropped.
In 1952 TV Guide outsold every other magazine.
The TV Dinner was introduced in 1954 and altered America’s eating habits.
1950 TV Showshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62JEg8iGV3k
Consumerism 1950s, Consumerism is due to the growth of media,
suburbs, and personal wealthTV became the center of consumer culture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibugG89odt0
The Beat Movement
Expressions of nonconformity by artists, poets and writers.
Beatniks: lived nonconformist livesFree, open and loose
Shunned by popular culture, did attract media attention as well as college students – pre-counterculture
Rock n Roll
Rebellion Music
Dr. Jonas Salk
Developed a vaccine for preventing polio
President Eisenhower
Interstate Highway System—Due to civilian and military growth, 1950s President Dwight Eisenhower, approved the Interstate Highway System
1960 ElectionDemocratic nominee
John Fitzgerald Kennedy = Senator from Mass.
Republican nomineeRichard Nixon = Vice President under Ike
Two factors that helped JFK win – t.v. and civil rights
Kennedy the Candidate
Well-organized campaign$ backed by large, wealthy
familyObstacles:
Age: only 43Religion: Roman Catholic
Televised Debate1st televised debate ever between
presidential candidatesNixon: expert on foreign policy
Wanted to use the debate to expose JFK’s weakness.
JFK – cool and calm“Image replaced the printed
word.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wg28hW1eAys
Election OutcomeThe Presidential election of 1960
was the closest in American history. John F. Kennedy won the popular vote by a slim margin of approximately 100,000 votes. Richard Nixon won more individual states than Kennedy, but it was Kennedy who prevailed by winning key states with many electoral votes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9H3gvnN468
Kennedy and the King
MLK and 33 demonstrators arrested in Atlanta at a segregated lunch counterNo concern from Ike
JFK showed concernBobby K. convinced the judge to
have MLK released on bail
CamelotJFK, wife Jackie, son John Jr., daughter CarolineRepresented a Camelot mystique
JFK Takes Command
Warned against supporting the French in Indochina
JFK’s policy of Flexible ResponseBuild-up of the nation’s
conventional forces (non-nuclear forces)
Created an elite branch of the ArmyThe Special Forces or The
Green Berets
The Berlin Crisis
Citizens from E. Berlin flocked into W. Berlin- Better economy
N.K. constructed the Berlin Wall to separate the two (Aug. 1961)- Sign of Communist oppression
New FrontierJFKs legislative program:
Spark economy by increase spending on national defenses
Peace Corps-Increase international aid
Expand space program
Space Race JFK vows to put a man on the moon by
the end of the 1960sInvests in NASA-National Aeronautics and Space
Administration
Apollo Program-lands Neil Armstrong on the moonArmstrong quotes “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”.
http://www.history.com/topics/space-race/videos/space-race-cold-war-front
JFK Assassination
Nov. 22, 1963-Dalles TX
JFK arrived to mend political fences with members of the state’s Democratic Party
JFK shot and murdered
Dallas police charged Lee Harvey Oswald with murder-palm print found on rifle used
Conspiracy Theories:
Oswald acted as part of a conspiracy with 2 shooters
Anti-Castro Cubans
Communist-sponsored attack
Conspiracy by the CIA
http://youtu.be/DSBXW1-VGmM
Lyndon B. Johnson
Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson becomes PresidentProves American system works!
LBJ and Domestic legislationPassed JFK’s Civil Rights Bill..it now becomes the Civil Rights Act 1964—Prohibits discrimination bc of race, religion, national origin, and gender
Great SocietyGreat Society-LBJ’s Domestic
agendaAimed to:
1. Reduce poverty
2. Reduce racial injustice
3. Promote a better quality of life
in the United States.