Koosh Review

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Koosh Review

• Louisiana Purchase
• Andrew Carnigie
• Dwight Eisenhower
• John Rockefeller
• The New Deal

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Koosh Review

• Dr Spock
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Manifest Destiny
• William Levitt
• Glass Ceiling

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Problems in the 1950s

• GIs coming back10 million so whats the
  problem?
• Set of ProblemsLook in your book and find 5
  problems from the GIs coming back and find a
  solutioneither from the book or your opinion on
  how to fix it. (841)

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Koosh Review

• John Foster Dulles
• 38th Parallel
• Hollywood Ten
• MacArthur
• Monroe Doctrine

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Ready or not here comes the

• BOOM!!
• How did life change in America in the 1950s and
  early 1960s

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Politics of the 1950s

• Truman said, The ___ stops here
• Prevent Waste
• Encourage work by threatening what?
• But what happened?
• Truman pushed for equality in the _____, but
  not all liked it
• Who started playing ball for the Dodgers?

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Politics of the 1950s

• Southern Democrats formed _____
• 1948 Election
• Strom Thurman DC
• Truman - Democrats
• Dewy - Republicans
• How did Truman win?
• What did he want accomplished? Similar to ______

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Next Election - Dwight Eisenhower

• Ike ran on idea that a change was needed why?
  What major points?
• Who was VP?
• Accused of taking gifts-What gift did he take?
• Conservative when it come to ____, liberal when
  it comes to ___.

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Business in the 1950s

• Company man someone who was loyal to
  companylost their _______
• Business formed Conglomerates-whats that?
• What was the benefit of Conglomerates?
• Business started Franchises
• Most famous Franchise?

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I love to see you smile!

• Brothers started in Californiawhy successful?
• Ray Kroc paid 2.7 million and introduced the
  _______
• What effect on us?

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Life in the Suburbs

• People started moving outside of city
• What class of people?
• William Levitt advertised he could build a house
  in ___
• Created standard neighborhoods called ________

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Life in the Suburbs cont

• Baby Boomchild born every _______
• Dr Jonas Salk
• Dr Spock
• Not to ____ or ____
• Children meetings
• New school in California every _____

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Role of Women

• 1950s TV shows said women should ______
• But reality was different
• Feminine Mystique written by Betty Friedan said
  what?
• Jobs not equal pay, advancement

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Leisure Activities

• 1950s 60 were considered ______
• Had more money to buy goods
• Sports likeGolf, fishing, hunting
• Comic Books

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Cars changing the world

• Gas more ____ so people drove more
• IKE created the Interstate Hwy Act in 56
• Trucking business ______
• Disneyland attracted how many?
• Some problemssome benefits
• Drive-ins, restaurants, noise, pollution
• Effects on the city and suburbs

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Advertising Spending

• People were buying and buying stuffkeeping up
  with the Jones-called Consumerism
• Biz made planned obsolescencemeans?
• 1950 1st ____ made by _____
• 1958 who followed
• Biz tried to get people to buy things they ____
  not _____

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Rise of TV

• 1948 Television Started to Expand
• 1950 - 9 of Americans had TVs
• 1954 - 55 of Americans had TVs
• 1960 90 of Americans had TVs
• How does the Federal Govt control them?

FCC
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Koosh Review

• Dr Spock
• Truman Doctrine
• Manifest Destiny
• William Levitt
• Dixiecrats

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Ways to Entertain

• Most TV shows depicted life as what?
• Radios were still popular b/c they changed
• And ____ were still popular why?

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Some people march to a different beat

• Some marched to a different beat
• Rock n Roll music, literature, religion
• New ideas called ________
• People in SF, LA, NYs Greenwich Village

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I Wanna Rock!!

• Rock n Roll music started by adding electrical
  instruments to _________
• Elvis Pressley, Chuck Berry started making
  and getting on ____
• AAs made RnR and also ____
• People like Nat King Cole, Dizzy Gillespie

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Not All Good in the Burbs

• Minorities went to the ______
• Those people refereed to as the other _____
• B/C everyone leaving the cities the government
  had to try to help called URBAN RENEWAL
• HUD-formed for what?

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Poverty Leads to Activism

• Mexicans who came to America to work on _____
  were called Braceros
• Braceros were told to leave after the war but
  they decided to stay-why?
• Longoria Incident MA WWII vet killed but racist
  people in TX refused to bury

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Native American Discrimination

• Government instituted the Termination Policy
  which took away what?
• NAs moved to cities but couldnt find ____
• Faced with more racism
• Left without _____ care

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Review Time!!

• In a group you are going to create a ranking of
  important events/terms/names/etcfor each of the
  following decades (10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60), and
  then separate them as either a Political/Social/Ec
  onomic
• Know the term and be able to justify your ranking