Life in the Atomic Age

1
Life in the Atomic Age

• Post WWI Experience
• Bring em Home
• Post War Depression?
• The Economy. 1946 to 1970
• Prosperity defined
• Suburbia and Automobiles
• Appliances Durable Goods

2
1948 Election

• Trumans State of Union Message
• Southern Dixiecrat response
• Had Enough? v. Do Nothing Congress
• Taft Hartley Act v. Organized Labor
• Dewey Wins?
• The Political Upset

3
The Fair Deal

• Role of the National Government?
• Social Security Minimum Wage
• National Health Care
• Education
• Housing and slum clearance
• Other realms
• No Deal and Return Laissez Faire?

4
Struggle for Equality Pre WWII

• The New Negro and Renaissance
• NAACP goes to court
• The Brown Bomber and Jessie Owens
• Double Victory
• March on Washington
• What will Berlin Say?
• FDRs Executive Order

5
Race The War Years

• Messman Policy Segregation
• Dorie Miller, Tuskegee Air et al
• Jackie Robinson
• Soldiers Story Port Chicago Incident
• Riots in Detroit and New York
• Japanese Internment
• Times are a Changing

6
Trumans Initiatives

• Committee on Civil Rights
• Executive Order Desegregation
• Message to the Nation in 1948
• Dixiecrats
• 48 Election
• NAACP Continues

7
Brown v. Board

• Cases Preceding
• Victories Poll Tax, Housing, Busing
• The Brown Case Plessey
• Court Deadlocked
• Earl Warren and 90 decision
• All Deliberate Speed
• Souths Reaction Emmit Till

8
The Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Vernon Johns Rosa Parks
• MIA and Dr. King
• 1955-56 Eyes on the Prize
• Long Walk Home
• Supreme Courts Decision
• SCLC, CORE, SNCC

9
The Korean War

• Source of the Conflict
• Pusan and Inchon
• MacArthur
• Quagmire
• 1952 Election
• Eisenhower

10
Wars of Liberation

• Post War in Third World
• African Continent
• Asia
• Latin American
• National Self Determination
• Cold War
• Decolonization

11
Eisenhower and The Cold War

• Containment v. Brinkmanship
• Hysteria of Red Scare
• The Atomic Age
• China and Korea
• Vietnam and France
• Dienbienphu
• Geneva Accords and S. Vietnam

12
The CIA and Covert Operations

• Iran and The Shah
• Iranians and Mossadig
• Geo-Political Significance
• Destabilization
• U.S.-Iranian Relations, 1953-79
• Arbenz and Guatemala
• Batista and Cuba

13
Egypt and Eisenhower Doctrine

• Egyptian Nationalism
• Nasserism
• Modern Israel
• The Suez Canal
• Suez War
• Eisenhower Doctrine
• Lebanon

14
Detente

• De Stalinization
• Atomic Surge
• 56 Meeting in Vienna
• Sputnik and Space race
• U-2 Incident
• 1960 Election

15
Age of Affluence or Excess?

• Baby Boom
• Consumerism
• Suburbia
• TV Culture
• Teenagers and Delinquency
• The Boom

16
Dynamic Conservative

• Rockfeller Report
• Creeping Socialism
• New Dualism
• Federal Expenditures
• Tail Finned and the Pre Frontal Lobotomy
• Recessions

17
Disillusionment

• Literary Trends
• Poverty amid plenty
• Rebel without a Cause and Wild Ones
• The Beats
• The Other Americans
• Civil Rights

18
Eisenhower and Civil Rights

• Brown Decision
• Montgomery to Little Rock
• 57 Civil Rights Act
• SCLC and SNCC
• The Sit Ins
• 1960

19
The Military Industrial Complex

• A military man, Ike, warned of the unwarranted
  influence of the Pentagon in his farewell speech.
  What did the President fear? Prescient?