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“1950s” America

“1950s” America. (1945-1963?). U.S. Foreign Policy and Politics: Grand Expectations?. United Nations , (October 24, 1945) Universal Declaration of Human Rights (December 10, 1948) Children’s Rights (1959, 1989): http://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/case-studies/122 Nuremberg Trials (1945-1949).

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“1950s” America

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  1. “1950s” America (1945-1963?)

  2. U.S. Foreign Policy and Politics: Grand Expectations? • United Nations, (October 24, 1945) Universal Declaration of Human Rights (December 10, 1948) Children’s Rights (1959, 1989): http://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/case-studies/122 • Nuremberg Trials (1945-1949)

  3. Grand Expectations, cont’d • Department of Defense (1949) • Marshall Plan June 5, 1947 (Harvard University Commencement Address—in place 1948-1952) • Berlin Airlift (June 27, 1948-June 12, 1949)PBS “American Experience” film

  4. Less Grand Expectations? • CIA (1947) • North Atlantic Treaty Organization (1947) • Mao Zedong (1949) • Fidel Castro (1959) • U2 Incident (May 1960) • Sputnik (1957)

  5. Early Cold War America • GI Bill of Rights (June 22, 1944 Servicemen’s Readjustment Act)

  6. Levittown (1947—Long Island, NY; 1952 Bucks County, PA) • Film • Website • Women in suburbia (1962 film) • Men in suburbia (Brylcream) • 1st Barbie Doll Commercial (1955) • “Cindy Goes to a Party” (1955)

  7. 1956 National Interstate and Defense Highways Act • What were the reasons behind passage of the Interstate Highway Act? • What were the consequences?

  8. “Threats” to Young Americans • “Duck and Cover” (1950s) • FBI film: “Hipsters and Your Young Adult” Jack Kerouac

  9. RacismJell-O commercial • Civil Rights Movement Martin Luther King, Jr.

  10. And…. • Movies, comic booksKefauver Senate Hearings –subcommittee on juvenile delinquency—1954 Comic Book Hearings Comic Book Code of 1954 • Communism----Young Americans For FreedomSenator Joseph McCarthyPresidents Council on Physical Fitness • Homosexuality (film)

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