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• BYOD- Using your electronic device
1. Define Filibuster2. Google Strom
Thurmond’s record filibuster…What was he trying to do?
Bell Ringer
• Cold War Strategies1. Brinkmanship
2. Foreign Aid
3. Alliances
4. Propaganda
5. Proxy Wars
6. Containment
7. Domino Theory
• Foreign Policies: 1. Marshall Plan
2. Truman Doctrine
3. Korean War
4. Arms Race
5. Space Race
6. Eisenhower Doctrine
7. Crisis Control
5.
Dwight D. Eisenhower• President Jan 1953• GI Bill- provided vets with
business, home and college loans 1944
• Strong Military & Economics– Show capitalism was better
than communism.
• NEW LOOK– Not keep a large
expensive army.• More Bang for the Buck
– Nuclear weapons ready
Arms Race
• Competition between nations for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons.
• Not limited to USA & USSR
Arms Race
• Nuclear Deterrence– Theory that an
enemy will not use nuclear weapons as long as they can be destroyed as a consequence.
Arms Race
Cold War Nuclear Arms Race• 1949
– USSR develops A-Bomb– U.S. no longer lone
Superpower
• Mid 1950s– Both sides have H-
Bombs• US first H Bomb• USSR first ICBM
• 1960s – enough warheads to
destroy one another• Massive Fallout,
“Nuclear Winter”
Defense Spending escalates 40% from 1949 to 1959 • Federal Budget• 1945 12% allocated to
defense spending• 1960 55% allocated to
defense spending
Weaponry• USA
– Preferred Bombers
• USSR– ICBM’s
• Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles
• Long range• Gave USSR the lead
in the Space Race
Yuri Gagarin
Valentina Tereshkova
NASA launched
1st US satelite
1st USSR satelite
1st animal in space Laika
Neil Armstrong
1957 1969
Sputnik Crisis
• Space Race started as a means to launch Intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs)
• Oct 1957-Soviets launch Sputnik- 1st satellite to orbit earth
• Americans afraid U.S had fallen behind Soviets.
• NASA– Fear from Sputnik– Created by congress– Research rocket science
& space exploration.
• National Defense Education– Provided school funding
for• Math• Science• Foreign Language
Brinkmanship• Brinkmanship-
– the willingness to go to the brink of war to make the other side back down
• Asia– China threatened to
seize Taiwan…– US threatened w/
Nuclear weapons. – China backed down
Nikita Khrushchev• 1953 Stalin Dies• Power Struggle ensues • 1956 Khrushchev
emerges as leader of USSR
• Secretly Defied Stalin’s Policy
• Defiance caused E. European countries to rebel.
• Used military force.
Your grandchildren will live under COMMUNISM!
Crisis Middle East• Iran 1953– Great Britain stealing Iran oil.– Iran kicks Brits out and
“nationalize oil”– USA claims Iran going
“Commie”– US and GB overthrow Iran govt.– Puppet regime in Mid East. – Containment but really Oil
• Suez Crisis 1956– Prevent communism in the
middle east.– GB, France & Israel want
control of Suez Canal– USSR sides with Egypt– In fear of losing Egypt to
communism, USA stops GB, France & Israel
Eisenhower Doctrine 1957• Countries could request US
economic or military aid if threatened by another nation…
• "to secure and protect the territorial integrity and political independence of such nations, requesting such aid against overt armed aggression from any nation controlled by international communism."
1950s Culture, Technology and Society
Facing the Bomb• Mass hysteria of Soviet
attack• Duck and Cover
– “protection from Nuclear blast”
• Fallout– radiation that would kill
those the blast didn’t.
• Fallout shelter– Underground buildings
stocked with food and water.
•dream of a successful life•growth of big business•businesses•franchising:
• chain stores• Dept Stores• McDonald's
•Conformity: • influenced by others
• Clothes• Speech• Music• purchases
•Individuality disappears•Church
• Damnation gone• Love & Peace
American Dream
Consumerism
-buying of material goods
-new products
polyester, Teflon, electronics
Keeping up with the Joneses!
New TV
New Car!
New Freezer
-planned obsolescence: things will go out of date – have to buy new ones!
-credit cards
-Influenced by advertising
Advertising!
• “Soap Opera”– Selling detergent during
daytime television• Marketing to specific
viewers.• Pays for programming• Supports Consumerism
Car Culture
Interstate Highway System
-growth of suburbia: commuting a necessity
Connects states with system of high travel roads
-trucking industry: interstate makes long haul possible
-social effects cruising teens, drive ins and drive-thru, car advertisements, travel hotels
Transport – Nuclear Missiles
Suburbia-most new homes were in the suburbs, 85%
-baby boom generation by 1957 there was 1 baby born per 7 seconds
Baby boom leads to:
-Medical breakthroughs
Jonas Salk: vaccine for polio
-Childrearing; do it by guidelines
Dr. Spock’s influence: raise kids a certain way, widely published, encouraged communication
Television
Early shows• Live variety acts• Many flaws & mistakes• Simplistic
TV-• Mass Media
• Promotes Conformity
• People think alike• Shows
• Ideal suburban life• No real female role
models• No Minorities or
Poverty• Male superiority• No violence
BUY
Conform
Don’t think
No questions
Poverty
-25 %of Americans were below poverty line (what is needed to survive)
• White Flight• million of middle class
whites moved to suburbs• loss of tax dollars hurt city
services• lots of rural poor move to
cities• breakdown of inner cities• Urban Renewal: HUD,
improve inner city, help poor
Not seen on TV
Beatniks
-beat movement
social and literary non-conformists
-non-material lifestyle shunned regular work
-set precedent for the hippy generation with very little structure
-clashed with regular America described as exact opposite
Rock-n-Roll
-Alan Freed: coined term
rock-n-roll music black and white
-Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Bill Haley, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley: King of Rock and Roll
-Ed Sullivan Show variety show, ET of all sorts
-Dick Clark American Band Stand
-reaction to rock music: Teens love it, Adults hate it