End of the War/1950s

Extreme Nationalism Nazism argues against Jews, Communists,

homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witness and the mentally disabled

Began with Mein Kampf and Kristallnacht Concentration camps carried out the “final

solution” Nazis put on trial at the Nuremberg Trials 1948- definition of genocide created

Holocaust and the Nuremburg Trials

Other genocides

Iron Curtain

Low interest loans Free college education Unemployment benefits Helps soldiers find jobs Creates shift to “white

collar” jobs

GI Bill

Baby boom

Sunbelt

Creation of suburbs http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_2lGkEU4Xs

Focus on family

Consumerism

Highways and Eisenhower

Second Red Scare McCarthyism HUAC Blacklist

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

Television

Rock and Roll

Brown v Board of Education

Beginning of Civil Rights