The 1950s

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The 1950s

• I.  Dwight Eisenhower and Cold War
• foreign policy
• -New Look
• -Rise of the Third World
• -Covert Diplomacy p. 835-37
• II. The Domestic Scene
• -Soviet Effect
• --Cold War fears
• --comparing ourselves to the USSR
• --federal High Way Act

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--Federal Highway Act --Sputnik I and
education
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-affluence, industry, and
--technology -TVs pp.827-28,
847- 48 -computers pp. 839- 840 -pesti
cides p. 840 -fertilizers p. 840
--consensus, pp. 844-45 --baby boom, pp.
844-45 --the other America, pp. 849-50
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III. Eisenhower the Cold War

• -New Look
• --Ikes fear of economic impact with too
  much military spending
• --Ikes fear of martial spirit

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--Brinksmanship --more for atomic
facilities --less for conventional
forces
-Rise of the Third World --new
countries/decline of imperialism
-Covert Diplomacy --achieve Cold
War goals with less
money --Iran --Guatemala p. 851-53
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III. Cracks in the consensus

• -Origins of the Civil Rights Movement
• --World War II civil rights
• --returning Afro-American vets
• --inspiration
• -WW II crusade against
• -fascist elitism discrimination

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-A. Phillip Randolph his threat of protest in
Washington against decimation against
Blacks in War industries -FDR and the Fair
Employment Practices Commission

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II. The Domestic Scene

• -Montgomery bus boycott

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-Martin Luther King --pacifistic civil
disobedience

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-sit-ins
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--influence of the early civil rights movement
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-cultural rebels Abby Hoffman

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-Rock Roll

• --early roots
• --fusion of many earlier popular musical
  forms
• -honky tonk
• -Afro-American music and the Black Exodus

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--Alan Freed
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-Beats
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-Allen Ginsberg
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