Hist 121 Chapter 30
Transcript of Hist 121 Chapter 30
Chapter Thirty:
The Affluent Society
Brinkley, The Unfinished Nation, 4/e
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The Economic “Miracle” Booming Economic Growth
The American Birth Rate 1940-1960
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The Economic “Miracle” Economic Growth
Government Spending Suburban Expansion
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The Economic “Miracle” The Rise of the Modern West
Government-Induced Growth
Oil Rig
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The Economic “Miracle” Capital and Labor
AFL-CIO
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Workers Represented by Unions, 1920-1990
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The Economic “Miracle” Capital and Labor
AFL-CIO Jimmy Hoffa
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“I may have many faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.”
- Jimmy Hoffa
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The Explosion of Science and Technology Medical Breakthroughs
Development of Antibacterial Drugs Penicillin Salk Vaccine
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The Explosion of Science and Technology Pesticides
DDT
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The Explosion of Science and Technology Postwar Electronic Research
Television Integrated Circuits Invented
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The Explosion of Science and Technology Postwar Computer Technology
UNIVAC IBM
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The Explosion of Science and Technology Bombs, Rockets, and Missiles
Nuclear Fusion ICBMs
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The Explosion of Science and Technology The Space Program
Sputnik
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Launching a Satellite, 1961
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The Explosion of Science and Technology The Space Program
Sputnik Apollo
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Buzz Aldrin, August 1969
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People of Plenty The Consumer Culture
Growing Focus on Consumer Goods
Electric Institute of Washington. Dishwasher (Library of Congress)
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People of Plenty The Suburban Nation
William Levitt
Houses on Laconia Street in a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio (Library of Congress)
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People of Plenty The Suburban Nation
William Levitt Segregated Suburbs
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Chicago’s Annexation and the Suburban Noose
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People of Plenty The Suburban Family
Traditional Gender Roles Reinforced
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People of Plenty The Birth of Television
Growing Popularity of TV
Teaching television studio, Annenberg School of Communications, University of Pennsylvania (Library of Congress)
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People of Plenty The Birth of Television
Growing Popularity of TV Social Conflict Accentuated
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People of Plenty Travel, Outdoor Recreation, and
Environmentalism Echo Park Sierra Club Reborn
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People of Plenty Organized Society and Its Detractors
The Organization Man
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“They are the ones of our middle class who have left home, spiritually as well as physically, to take the vows of organization life, and it is they who are the mind and soul of our great self-perpetuating institutions.”
- William Whyte
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People of Plenty The Beats and the Restless Culture of Youth
Howl
“Robot Apartments! Invincible suburbs! Skeleton treasuries! blind capitals! demonic industries!”
Allen Ginsberg
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People of Plenty The Beats and the Restless Culture of Youth
Howl “Juvenile Delinquency”
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People of Plenty Rock n’ Roll
Elvis Presley Rock n’ Roll’s Black Origins Rapidly Growing Record Scandals
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The Other America On the Margins of the Affluent Society
Michael Harrington
“The entire invisible land of the other Americans became a ghetto, a modern poor farm for the rejects of society and the economy.”
Michael Harrington
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The Other America On the Margins of the Affluent Society
Michael Harrington Persistent Poverty
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The Other America Rural Poverty
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The Other America The Inner Cities
“Ghettoes”
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African-American Migration 1950-1980
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The Other America The Inner Cities
“Ghettoes” Declining Opportunities for Unskilled Workers
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The Rise of the Civil Rights Movement The Brown Decision and “Massive
Resistance” Brown v. Board of Education
George E.C. Hayes, Thurgood Marshall, and James Nabrit congratulating each other after the Brown decision, 1954 (Library of Congress)
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“We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place.”
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The Rise of the Civil Rights Movement The Brown Decision and “Massive
Resistance” Brown v. Board of Education Little Rock’s Central High School
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The Rise of the Civil Rights Movement The Expanding Movement
Rosa Parks
5,000 at Meeting Outline Boycott; Bullet Clips Bus." Montgomery, Alabama, Bus Boycott. Montgomery Advertiser, December 6, 1955. (Library of Congress)
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“All I was doing was trying to get home from work.”
- Rosa Parks
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The Rise of the Civil Rights Movement The Expanding Movement
Rosa Parks Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“We have waited for more than three hundred and forty years for our constitutional and God-given rights.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The Rise of the Civil Rights Movement Causes of the Civil Rights Movement
Growing Urban Black Middle Class Political Mobilization of Northern Blacks
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Eisenhower Republicanism “What Was Good for . . . General Motors”
Keynesian Welfare State Accepted
Dwight D. Eisenhower (Library of Congress)
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Eisenhower Republicanism “What Was Good for . . . General Motors”
Keynesian Welfare State Accepted Eisenhower’s Fiscal Conservatism
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Dwight D. Eisenhower (Library of Congress)
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Eisenhower Republicanism The Survival of the Welfare State
Federal Highway Act of 1956
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Eisenhower Republicanism The Decline of McCarthyism
Army-McCarthy Hearings
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“Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”
-Joseph Welch
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Eisenhower, Dulles, and the Cold War Dulles and “Massive Retaliation”
“Brinkmanship”
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“We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face.”
- John Foster Dulles
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Eisenhower, Dulles, and the Cold War France, America, and Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh Dien Bien Phu Ngo Dinh Diem
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Eisenhower, Dulles, and the Cold War Cold War Crises
Israel Recognized
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Eisenhower, Dulles, and the Cold War Cold War Crises
Israel Recognized Gamal Abdel Nasser Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán Overthrown Growing Conflict with Cuba
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Eisenhower, Dulles, and the Cold War Europe and the Soviet Union
Hungarian Revolution of 1956
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Eisenhower, Dulles, and the Cold War The U-2 Crisis
“Military-Industrial Complex”
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“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”
- Dwight Eisenhower