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Decades. 1950s. Consumerism Move to suburbs and white flight Advertising Cult of domesticity Birth of rock and roll Civil Rights Sputnik! McCarthyism. Polio ends! Jonas Salk. 1950s Presidents: Truman, Eisenhower. 1960s “High 60s”. Cold War (U2 Incident, Cuban Missile Crisis) Vietnam
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1950s • Consumerism • Move to suburbs and white flight • Advertising • Cult of domesticity • Birth of rock and roll • Civil Rights • Sputnik! • McCarthyism
1960s “High 60s” • Cold War (U2 Incident, Cuban Missile Crisis) • Vietnam • Counterculture • Continuation of Civil Rights Movement • Women’s Rights movement • British invasion
Presidents: JFK, LBJ • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq1PbgeBoQ4
Betty Friedan and the women’s movement • It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself. • A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all
American Literature • Norman Mailer, Jack Kerouac • “The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!”
1968! • MLK assassinated • RFK assassinated • Altamont concert • End of the hippies?!?!
1970s • Environmental Crisis • Gas Crisis • Continuation of Vietnam
Presidents • Nixon, Ford
