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Title: 1950s


1
1950s Overview
2
Economic Legacy of WWII
  • rations and diminished production during war
    saved money
  • government funded research and development of
    industry created new products and improved
    efficiency
  • rapid production of goods in factories manned by
    women and African Americans
  • Americans eager to acquire all the Depression
    and War had denied

3
  • machines replacing worker
  • growth of white-collar workers (managers, sales,
    professional, and clerical duties)
  • 1940 44.8 white collar workers
  • 1960 56.2 white collar workers
  • growth of service industry
  • Primary industry- farming, mining, fishing, etc.
  • Secondary industry- manufacturing
  • Tertiary industry service helping people use
    the products of primary and secondary industry
    and providing services to people (salespeople,
    transportation, plumbers, restaurant workers,
    entertainment
  • African American and female workers displaced by
    returning soldiers

Workers
4
Soldiers returning were eager to pursue the
American Dream they had fought for marriages,
birth rates, and home sales soared
The American Dream...
5
Suburbia
Expanding families search for the American Dream
  • Baby Boom (1945 1957)
  • 3 - 4 million births a year
  • Previously only 2 3 million births a year
  • GI Bill of Rights
  • Low-interest mortgages to buy houses

6
3. Levittowns - mass produced communities in the
suburbs developed by William J. Levitt -
average Americans could afford homes
7
  • 4. The Automobile
  • dependence on a car to get to jobs
  • led to new industries (federal/interstate
    highways, gas stations, repair shops, parts
    stores, drive-in movies and restaurants).

8
  • 4. Teen Consumers
  • Teens became a significant part of population
    due to baby boom word teenager enters American
    vocabulary
  • Teens took part in fueling the growing economy
  • Companies used advertising to appeal
    specifically to teens

9
Prosperity for all?
  • While new suburbs grew, new housing in cities
    rapidly declined, with existing structures
    deteriorating (primarily home to most minority
    groups)
  • Dependence on car for wealthy led to the decline
    of mass transit (primarily poor minorities
    affected because they can not afford cars)

10
Politics
Truman Eisenhower
  • President Harry Truman (Democrat)
  • attempted to continue FDRs economic policies in
    post-war years with the Fair Deal
  • Republicans feared Democratic control(and
    rejected most of his ideas)
  • Ex repeat of FDRs four terms, and 22nd
    Amendment passed limiting Presidential terms
  • Successes
  • banned discrimination in hiring of federal
    employees
  • ended segregation in armed forces

11
  • President Eisenhower (Republican)
  • former Commander of Allied Forces (led D-Day
    invasion)
  • introduced modern Republicanism
  • slow growth of Federal government
  • limit power of President, increase power of
    Congress Courts
  • cut spending, reduce taxes
  • Domestic Policies
  • created NASA
  • National Defense Education Act
  • money to increase science and math education to
    compete with the USSR in Arms and Space Races
    (after Sputnik Moment

12
  • Cold War

Political, Economic, and Military competition
between the U.S. and U.S.S.R
  • As WWII was ending tension arose between the two
    strongest Allies (U.S. U.S.S.R)
  • Began a new era, The Cold War
  • lasted for over 50 years
  • affected both domestic and foreign policies
  • led to the Second Red Scare

DEMOCRACY vs COMMUNISM
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