Eisenhower and the 1950s

The economic boom is further stimulated by advances in science and and technology. Television and TV advertising fundamentally transform the social, social, political, and cultural landscape of the nation in ways that few could predict in the early early 1950s. Fearful of communist sympathizers, the public is susceptible to the rhetoric and accusations of Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, and the second second Red Scare grips the nation for years. The Brown v. Board of Education decision by the Supreme Court in 1954 requires white Americans to accept black citizens as their equals in regard to education. With the creation of NATO and the Soviet Soviets response, the Warsaw Pact, two armed camps stare each other down. The successful Cuban Revolution led by Fidel Castro in 1959 shows shows the limits of the containment policy even in the Western Hemisphere.

I. Happy Days
A.

Society
1. 2. Transistor, 1948 White v. blue collar
a. AFL-CIO b. Landrum-Griffin Act, 1959

3. 4.

Post-war cult of domesticity

a. Betty Friedan

Consumer Culture
a. Highway 66 b. Interstate Highway Act, 1954

B.

Politics
1. 2. 3. Election 1952 Dynamic Conservatism Rise and fall of McCarthyism

II. Civil Rights

A.

Brown Decision, 1954

1. 2. 3. NAACP and Thurgood Marshall Chief Justice Earl Warren Responses
a. b. c. President Ike IkeOoops! Ooops! Massive resistance by segregationists LRHS, 1957

B.

Montgomery Bus Boycott, 195556

1. Rosa and Dr. King

C.

SCLC and SNCC

1. 2. Sit-ins (Greensboro, 1960) Jail not Bail

D. E.

Proposal to terminate the tribes Operation Wetback and bracero program

Alaska Admitted as 49th State

Pictures from Ms. Mohnike and their family drive to Alaska!

Hawaii Admitted as 50th State

Alumnus Barack Obama Steve Case (AOL, CEO) Pierre Omidyar (Ebay founder) Carrie Ann Inaba (judge on Dancing with the Stars) Kelly Preston (married to John Travolta) Norm Chow Michelle Wie Dr. Sun Yat-sen Paul Linebarger (advisor to Chiang Kai-shek)

Panahou School
322 state championships Athletics include air riflery, bowling, kayaking, and judo 10 gold, 7 silver, and 3 bronze medals won by alumni In last 10 Olympics Facilities include indoor pool, outdoor Olympic size pool, 8-lane track, four gyms, and 9 tennis courts

III. New Look Foreign Policy

A.

Policy of boldness?
1. 2. John Foster Dulles N. Khrushchev Vietnam and Geneva Summit Quemoy and Matsu Iran and the Shah Suez Crisis, 1956 Eisenhower Doctrine Cuba Peaceful coexistence with USSR
a. Austria Hungarian Uprising, 1956 U-2 Incident Sputnik National Defense Education Act

B.

Southeast Asia
1. 2.

C.

Middle East
1. 2. 3.

D. E.

Latin America
1. 1. 2.

Europe and Krushchev in 1955

Tensions rise
a. b. c. d.

B-52 wing in Utah

Post-script of 1950s
Election of 1960 B. Literature
A.

1. 2. 3.

Post-WWII writers lacked realism Poetry critical of modernization Playwrights experimented with American values 4. Literary Renaissance among southern and Jewish writers
C.

Impact of Television and popular culture