Transcript CHAPTER 29 SOCIETY AFTER WORLD WAR II

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The American Nation
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Chapter 20
SOCIETY AFTER
WORLD WAR II
Section 1: The Challenges of Peace
Section 2: The Affluent Society
Section 3: Voices of Dissent
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Section 1: The Challenges of Peace
Objectives:
 How did the U.S. economy and American workers
fare after World War II?
 What were the most important issues of the 1948
election?
 What were the major goals of President Truman’s
Fair Deal, and were they accomplished?
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Section 1: The Challenges of Peace
The American economy and American
workers after WWII
 The economy remained fairly strong, despite fears
of depression.
 Workers’ problems included antiunion legislation,
high inflation, and job loss.
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Issues in 1948
 civil rights
 labor unrest
 high inflation
 broader social security benefits
 federal aid for agriculture, education, and housing
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The Fair Deal
 sought full employment and a higher minimum wage
 called for a national health insurance program
 wanted affordable housing
 tried to increase aid to farmers and expand welfare
benefits
 had limited success
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Section 2: The Affluent Society
Objectives:
 How did President Eisenhower try to manage the
nation’s problems?
 How did the workforce change in the 1950s?
 What was suburban life like during the 1950s?
 What was early television programming like?
 How did trends in popular culture reflect larger
social changes among teenagers in the 1950s?
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Eisenhower’s management
 attempted to be conservative in regard to money
and liberal in regard to people
 expanded some programs and cut others
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Workforce changes in the 1950s
 Automation increased productivity but reduced
manufacturing jobs.
 Service positions expanded, creating more pinkcollar jobs.
 Corruption caused support for unions to decrease.
 Corporate mergers created new white-collar jobs.
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Suburban life during the 1950s
 many identical communities
 centered around the family
 consumerism
 conformity
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Early television programming
 corporate-sponsored
 dramas
 quiz shows
 situation comedies
 sports
 variety shows
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Popular culture and social changes
 Satire in magazines and comic books and rebel
characters in fiction expressed confusion and anger.
 Rock ’n’ roll foreshadowed civil rights challenges.
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Section 3: Voices of Dissent
Objectives:
 How did the Brown decision affect school segregation
and expose conflict over segregation?
 How was the Montgomery bus boycott a major
turning point in the civil rights movement?
 What challenges did Hispanics, Asian Americans, and
American Indians face in the 1950s?
 How did writers and scholars criticize 1950s society?
 What problems did poor Americans face in the 1950s?
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The Brown decision
 banned racial segregation in public schools
 precipitated violence when integration was
attempted in Little Rock, Arkansas
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The Montgomery bus boycott
 struck a blow against segregation
 established Martin Luther King, Jr. as a major civil
rights leader
 helped people believe they could stand up to power
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Challenges faced by Hispanics
 discrimination
 segregation, especially in public schools
 nativism
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Problems of Asian Americans
 discrimination
 beliefs that they did not fit the American “ideal”
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Challenges faced by American Indians
 relocation and termination policies
 government pressure to assimilate
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Criticism expressed by writers and
scholars
 conformity
 racism
 poverty
 lack of creativity
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Problems of poor Americans
 falling farm prices
 high cost of farm equipment
 few farm jobs
 increasingly poor urban populations
 discrimination
 poor housing
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