Standard 21

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Standard 21

• The student will explain economic growth and its
  impact on the United States, 1945-1970.

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A
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The Baby Boom

• An estimated 78.2 million Americans who were born
  between 1946 and 1964.

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Levittown

• Levittown was the first truly mass-produced
  suburb and is widely regarded as the archetype
  for postwar suburbs throughout the country.
  (Impact of the car)
• It was a reaction to the houses required by all
  of the growing families from the Baby Boom.
• Levittown provided affordable houses in what many
  residents felt to be a congenial community,
  critics attacked its homogeneity, blandness, and
  racial exclusivity

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Interstate Highway Act

• Dwight D. Eisenhower signed this bill into law.
  Appropriating 25 billion for the construction of
  41,000 miles of interstate highways over a
  20-year period.
• Eisenhower argued for the highways for the
  purpose of national defense.
• One result of building the roads made commutes
  between urban centers to suburbs much quicker,
  furthering the flight of citizens and businesses.

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B
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The Kennedy/Nixon Debate

• This was the first televised debate in American
  history.
• The first debate for the 1960 election drew over
  66 million viewers out of a population of 179
  million, making it one of the most-watched
  broadcasts in U.S. television history.
• Kennedy is generally considered to have won the
  debate. Nixon appeared worse than Kennedy on
  television, with poor makeup, a haggard
  appearance.
• The televised debates were thought to be the
  difference in what was an extremely close
  election.

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The Civil Rights Movement

• Television brought the violence of Southern
  police against peaceful African American
  protesters into the living rooms of America.
• These visuals helped motivate White America to
  stop segregation and work towards racial equality.

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C
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Personal Computers

• In the early 1970s, computers were generally
  large, costly systems owned by large
  corporations, universities, government agencies,
  and similar-sized institutions.
• The introduction of the microprocessor led to the
  proliferation of personal computers after about
  1975.

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Cell Phones

• Motorola was the first company to successfully
  use a mobile phone in America in 1973.
• The first cell phone sold in America was in 1983.

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D
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The Arms Race

• Throughout the 1950s the US and the Soviet Union
  fought each other for world leadership.
• This manifested in an arms race for weapons
  superiority.
• Between 1954 and 1958 the US conducted 19
  hydrogen bomb tests at Bikini Island in the
  Pacific.

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Sputnik

• In 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik into
  space.
• It was the 1st artificial satellite to orbit
  Earth.

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National Defense Education Act of 1958

• The launch shook the American belief that the USA
  was superior in Math and Science to all other
  countries.
• The act provided aid to education at all levels,
  both public and private.
• It was instituted primarily to stimulate the
  advancement of and education in science,
  mathematics, and modern foreign languages.

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Unit 5 Book Questions

• Pg. 910 1-8
• Pg. 948 1-8
• Pg. 976 1-8
• Pg. 1042 1-10
• Pg. 1070 1-8
• Pg. 1100 1-9
• Pg. 1134 1-10
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