Cold war
Life in the 1950's
Rock and roll
More racism
Youth Culture
Gen gap
Integrated audiences
Beat generation
Rebels against conformity
Consumer society
Hippies
Family roles
Father - work
Mother - House chores
Boys - cars, guns
Girls - dolls, tea sets
More consumption (shopping centers, credit cards, planned obsolescence)
Marriage and baby boom (more schools and consumption)
Suburbs increased, deforestation started
GI Bill of rights
Helped veterans get home loans and college ed
Economic propsperity
Cars became popular (more mobility and spending)
Highways were created (link nation and military necessity) (roadside business became popular)
More medicine
22nd amendment
Containment
Europe after the war
Millions of people dead
Millions homeless
Infrastructure destroyed
Economy collapsed
Rationing and food shortages
United Nations
Goal: Prevent war, promote peace
Made up by: General assembly and security council
Potsdam Conference: Divide Germany into 4 zones (also berlin)
Iron curtain
Soviet union established communists government in eastern Europe
Iron curtain divided Eastern Bloc and Western Europe
The long telegram
Written by George Kennan
Soviet Regime was super expansionists and needed to be contained
National security act made arming in advance of aggression
instead of reacting to aggression
Final goal: Stop Communism
Cuban missile crisis
After plans failed to overthrow Fidel Castro, tension happened
After finding what the images of U-2 showed, the US had to make a plan (1)
More images showed more construction sites of missiles (2)
US sent indirect message stating the "graves of consequences" would happen (3)
Kennedy does his things, I mean eats a sandwich and does crap and talks (4)
Naval quarantine on Cuba (5)
General Walter Sweeny does not guarantee the destruction of missile sites (Kennedy shocked 😱) (6)
Kennedy calls other presidents to take a decision and tells British prime minister about the situation and writes letter to soviets (7)
US tells the UN the crisis, also soviets threaten the quarantine (8)
Soviets respond to letter saying "stop intimidating me, baa me don't like threats" (9)
Cuba prepares missiles, Kennedy nervous 😬, writes another letter and debate in UN showing photographs (10)
More photos of missile sites, Cuba will send missiles if US tries to invade (asking the soviets) and Soviets and the US make promise to remove quarantine and not invade Cuba in exchange for no missiles (11)
US removes missiles in Turkey as part of agreement and U-2 plane is shot down and Kennedy trembles in fear preparing attack to Cuba (12)
Soviets agree terms of agreement and remove missiles in Cuba (13)
Vietnam stuff
Vietnam War
People react to US involment in Vietnam:
North Vietnamese Torpedoed American Destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin
President Johnson states that they should repel any armed attack against them
Congress passed Gulf of Tonkin resolution. The US went into war without permission of the congress
Tet Offensive: North Vietnamese attack South part and US Embassy
Tet offensive was turning point in was psychologically (communists win)
New president Nixon removes US from Vietnam
Now the US fought two wars without declaration from congress
Because of the 2 wars, War powers act was passed for checks and balances
Fall of Saigon occurred (Americans abandoned embassy and south Vietnamese tried to flee)
North wins, war is over, sadness 😢
People were angry 😠and the US was viewed as an aggressor to undeveloped countries
Tinker V. Des Moines:
2 children wore armbands for peace
School got mad at them
Parents sued the school and won
Since so many US soldiers got drafted, there was draft resistance
Because of draft protests (not able to vote but to fight at 18), 26th amendment lowered the voting age to 18
Silent majority are the people that supported the US