Culture of Conformity
vKitchen Debate

vProsperity and Affluence

– pent up demand and gov’t spending

–consumer industries

–GI Bill and middle class

 

vI Like Ike

 

vBaby Boomers

–1946-64 --high BR

–Dr. Spock

 

Culture of Conformity
vLevittown

–mass production

–problems and costs

 

Disneyland, McDonalds, and Conformity
vDisneyland

–order and homogeneity

vMcDonalds

–Standardization

–Ray Kroc

 

Television and Conformity
vTelevision

–Cleavers and family sitcoms

–Middle-class suburban lifestyle

 

Cracks in the Wall of Conformity
vThe Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

 

vC. Wright Mills

–White Collar

vBeatniks and Rock N’ Roll

 

Sex and the Cleavers

vPeyton Place

vPlayboy Magazine

–Hugh Hefner

vKinsey Reports

 

 

Second Reconstruction

Origins and Growth of the Civil Rights Movement

Origins of Civil Rights Movement

nNew Deal and AAA

npushed blacks out of farm country

nWWII

nwar industries increased urbanization

nFour Freedoms

n50s Prosperity

 

nCold War rhetoric
 

 

Movement Begins

nBrown v. Board of Education (1954)

nseparate is unequal

nuse of courts and role of NAACP

nSouthern resistance

nLittle Rock  (1957)

nCentral High Nine

nfederal gov’t intervenes

 

Movement Begins
nMontgomery Bus Boycott

nrise of MLK and role of the church

nmass movement

  

Civil Rights in the 60s

nStudent Nonviolent Coordinating Comm

nsit-ins and entrance of youth

 

Civil Rights in the 60s

nFreedom Riders (1961)

nCongress of Racial Equality (CORE)

nenter whites

 

Civil Rights in the 60s

n1963

nBirmingham

nMarch on Washington

nKennedy assassination

 

Free at Last?

Civil Rights Act of 1964

nbanned segregation in public places and discrimination in employment

nFreedom Summer

nMississippi Freedom Democratic Party

nVoting Rights Act of 1965

npermitted fed. gov’t to aid black voting

 

 

 

Vietnam War

Why We Were There

 

Korean War

nOrigins of Divided Korea
nNorth Korea Invasion

nKim Il Sung

n“Korea is the Greece of the Far East”

nUN Police Action

nChina and MacArthur
nStalemate

n38th Parallel

 

 

The New Look

nEisenhower and Massive Retaliation

nUse of high tech and aversion to ground troops

nCIA

nCovert operations and the Third World

nIran

nMossadeq and the Shah

nGuatemala

nUnited Fruit

nArbenz

Roots of the War

 

nFrance and Cold War politics

nneed support in NATO

nFrance and Vietnam

ncolonial rule since late 19th century

nHo Chi Minh

nDien Bien Phu (1954)

nGeneva Accords

 

Path to the Quagmire

nIke and Diem

nDiem’s weakness

nSEATO

nNational Front for Liberation of Vietnam (NLF—1960)

nJFK and Vietnam

nCounterinsurgency

nDiem coup

 

LBJ’s War
Gulf of Tonkin Incident (1964)

nblank check

nEscalation

n1965 retaliatory bombing and Rolling Thunder

nenter ground troops

n1967-500,000 troops