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Notes on Cold War Culture
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Baby Boom: dramatic inc birthrates following WWII (1946-1964)
1. Effect: Levittown – the first postwar suburb (Long, Island, NY)
2. Effect: Interstate Highway Act created 41,000 miles of new highway to connect major cities
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Red scare: fear communist conspirators would overthrow the government
1. Effect on televisiona. TV = social influence
i. Leave it to Beaver, Father Knows Best
ii. TV dinners = popular
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TelevisionTelevision
I Love I Love LucyLucy
SupermanSuperman Davy CrockettDavy Crockett
““Leave it to Leave it to Beaver”Beaver”
““Bonanza”Bonanza”
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Hollywood used Hollywood used aliens as a aliens as a metaphor metaphor
for whom for whom ????http://www.imdb.com/video/http://www.imdb.com/video/
screenplay/vi3014131993/screenplay/vi3014131993/
b. Popular movies reflects the fears of the time
i. “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” ii. “War of the Worlds”
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c. TV = Political Influencei. Senator Joseph McCarthy: Claimed to have list
of known communists in state department… Targets government employees, those in the entertainment industry, educators, and union activists
ii. HUAC = (House of Un-American Activities Committee) – investigated suspected communists in Hollywood
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iii. Presidential debates (Kennedy / Nixon, 1960)
iv. Civil Rights Movement – shows violence in South
•Reason for Nixon’s defeat…. Kennedy is just sooooo cute
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2. Effect on technologya. Space Race
i. US develops hydrogen bomb
ii. Soviets develop Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles
iii. Soviets launch sputnik: orbiting satellite
iv. US (Neil Armstrong) lands on the moon (1969)
b. Computers, televisions, cell phones
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I’m gonna make bigger and better
guns than you!!! HA!
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3. Effect on education… Eisenhower’s response
a. NASA – National Aeronautic Space Administration
b. National Defense of Education Act of 1958: improve science and math in schools to defeat Soviets
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a. Atomic Anxietiesa. Atomic Anxieties::
““Duck-and-Cover Duck-and-Cover Generation”Generation”
b. Atomic Testingb. Atomic Testing::1946-1962 1946-1962
i. U. S. exploded 217 i. U. S. exploded 217 nuclear weapons over nuclear weapons over Pacific and in Nevada. Pacific and in Nevada.
4. Fear of nuclear war