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Mr. Porter APUSH POWERPOINT CHAPTER 37

Mr. Porter APUSH POWERPOINT CHAPTER 37. THE 1950’s. KEYS TO THE CHAPTER. Economic Prosperity McCarthyism Civil Rights Era begins Cold War Escalates Space Race begins Election of 1960. Economic Prosperity. Single Family Homes and Suburbs Technology changes employment sector

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Mr. Porter APUSH POWERPOINT CHAPTER 37

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  1. Mr. Porter APUSH POWERPOINT CHAPTER 37 THE 1950’s

  2. KEYS TO THE CHAPTER • Economic Prosperity • McCarthyism • Civil Rights Era begins • Cold War Escalates • Space Race begins • Election of 1960

  3. Economic Prosperity • Single Family Homes and Suburbs • Technology changes employment sector • Unions down & “white collar jobs” up • “Cult of Domesticity” returns for women • Women move into office employment

  4. expansion of middle class and consumer culture • Easy credit, fast food, new forms of recreation • 1948 – first McDonald’s • 1949 – first credit card • 1955 – Disneyland opened • Rock and Roll and Sex part of consumer culture

  5. The Television Revolution

  6. Election of 1952 – Republicans • Nominate Dwight D. Eisenhower • General during WWII • Richard Nixon nominated as vice president • Election of 1952 – Democrats • Weak because of Korea, Truman’s clashes with MacArthur, inflation, seeming spread of communism • Nominate Adlai Stevenson

  7. Nixon’s “Checkers Speech” • Speech on national TV to confront $ allegations, made himself seem like a “regular guy” with a family and dog (Checkers) • Will lose race for President in 1960 but come back from the dead and win presidency in 1968

  8. Senator Joseph McCarthy {a quick rise and fall} • Elected in 1946 to US Senate from Wisconsin • February 1950 – accused State Department of knowingly employing 205 Communist party members • Failed to produce evidence of even 1 • Americans believed communists infiltrating gov’t and initially approve of McCarthy’s tactics • McCarthy and the Republicans • Eisenhower was afraid to confront McCarthy, even though he disagreed with McCarthy’s tactics

  9. McCarthy Making Accusations

  10. Spring of 1954 – McCarthy attacked US Army • 35 days of televised hearings • December 1954 – Senate censures him • 1957 – McCarthy died of chronic alcoholism • Effects of McCarthyism • McCarthyism – okays practice of publicizing accusations despite insufficient evidence • Damaged traditions of free speech • Careers of many ruined

  11. Civil Rights Movement Begins • Life for blacks in the South in the 1950s • 15 million blacks lived in US and 2/3rd in South • Lived under segregation (Jim Crow laws) • Isolated from whites, economically & politically powerless • Separate schools, toilets, drinking fountains, restaurants, waiting rooms, train and bus seating 1947 Jackie Robinson breaks the baseball color barrier • 1950 – Sweatt v. Painter • Separate Professional schools ruled unequal

  12. 1954 – Brown v. Board of Education • Segregation in public schools was “inherently unequal” and therefore unconstitutional • Decision reversed Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) • Desegregation must occur “with all deliberate speed” • “massive resistance” in Deep South • 1956 -100 southern Congressman signed “Declaration of Constitutional Principles” pledging resistance to segregation • Some states used public money to set up private schools • 1964 – only 2% of eligible blacks in desegregated classes

  13. It is only after the 1964 Civil Rights Act that actual desegregation begins in the schools

  14. The Montgomery Bus Boycott--------------December 1955 –January 1957

  15. 1957 – Congress passed first Civil Rights Act since Reconstruction • Eisenhower is reluctant to act quickly • Authorized federal injunctions (court orders) to protect voting rights 1957 – Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) 1957- Little Rock, Arkansas confrontation

  16. The “Little Rock Nine” Escorted by Federal Troops

  17. “The Problem We All Live With”

  18. February 1, 1960 – “sit-ins” begin in Greensboro, North Carolina • Four students demanded service at whites-only lunch counter in Woolworth’s and were refused • End of the week – over 1,000 students had joined sit-ins in Greensboro • Sit-in movement then spread across South • April 1960 – Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, pronounced “snick”) begins

  19. IKE SPENDS BIG ON MILITARY DEFENSE AND THIS CREATES ECONOMIC PROSPERITY • Interstate Highway Act of 1956 • Public works project much bigger than New Deal • $27 billion to build 42,000 miles of interstates • Effects • Many new jobs • Suburbanization of US • Air quality problems and Increased energy consumption • Railroads hurt by competition from trucks and cars

  20. Defense Spending as a Percentage of GDP, 1950 - 1997

  21. Problems with “massive retaliation” • {more bang for the buck theory} • 1956 – Hungary rose in revolt against USSR • USSR used troops to put down rebellion • Revealed that nuclear weapons were overkill for a small incident like Hungary • Long-range planes and nuclear weapons more expensive than Eisenhower first believed • Fear of Nuclear War makes threats less believable against conventional weapons

  22. Main US Highways, 1930 – 1970

  23. Highway Construction in the 1950s

  24. The Vietnam Nightmare Begins • US helps France battle the nationalists • To oppose communism as well as gain French support for rearming of West Germany By 1954, US paying 80% of costs of French army • 1954 – French surrounded at Dienbienphu but Ike refuses to use bombers to help

  25. ---------------Following 1954 Geneva Agreementthat USA doesn’t sign----------------17th Parallel

  26. Cold War Crises in the Middle East • The Suez crisis • October 1956 – Britain, France (with Israel) launch assault on Egypt but failed to tell IKE • Britain and France forced to withdraw • The Eisenhower Doctrine (1957) Military and economic aid promised to Middle Eastern nations threatened by communist aggression OPEC is formed in 1960 and becomes a power in 1970s when it cuts off oil exports

  27. Sputnik I and Sputnik II 1957 The Race is On

  28. Effects of Sputnik • American superiority in science, military, and education questioned and NASA established • 1958 – US put satellite in orbit • By 1960, US had developed its own ICBMs • US education criticized for being too easy • Drive to replace electives with math and science courses

  29. Federal gov’t gets involved in Education

  30. U-2 incident May 1, 1960 • Gary Powers (CIA pilot) shot down while spying in Soviet airspace • US denied he was spying, but USSR brought out proof • Summit ruined when Khrushchev stormed out • Tensions remain high between countries and now Cuba becomes a problem

  31. The Cuban Revolution • January 1959 – Fidel Castro carried out revolution and deposed Batista • Castro seizes property from Americans to carry out land distribution • Castro allied with USSR when US cut off sugar imports • US threatened to enforce Monroe Doctrine, but did not when Khrushchev threatened war

  32. Nixon and Kennedy Debate: Election 1960

  33. Election of 1960 – results • Kennedy won, narrowly • Margin of only 118, 574 votes (out of 68 million cast) {“the Chicago factor”?} • First Roman Catholic, and youngest ever elected • Received strong support in big cities, from workers, Catholics, blacks • Democrats won both houses of Congress

  34. Accomplishments under Eisenhower • US was extremely prosperous • With pockets of poverty and some farm problems • Some Civil Rights victories (but hated Warren pick) • Controlled military through rough decade with USSR • Warned of “military-industrial complex” in farewell address in 1961 • Reality was Eisenhower a strong president despite critics; gained greater reputation as time has passes

  35. POST WAR LITERATURE • In fiction, some prewar realists continued • Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea (1952); killed himself in 1961 • John Steinbeck: East of Eden (1952) and Travels with Charley (1962); • Norman Mailer: The Naked and the Dead • Joseph Heller: Catch-22 • Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse 5

  36. Post War Playwrights Tennessee Williams wrote of psychological misfits trying to hold it together in modern life • A Streetcar Named Desire; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof • Arthur Miller’s plays about American values • Death of a Salesman (1949); The Crucible (1953) • Lorraine Hansberry: A Raisin in the Sun • Edward Albee: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962) • exposed the darker side of middle-class life

  37. Bestselling books by black authors • Richard Wright: Native Son (1940) • Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man (1952) about blacks’ search for identity • James Baldwin: The Fire Next Time (1963) explored racial questions

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