At homeMini recession as soldiers

returnedGI Bill, FHA and the VA helpOperation Dixie and the CIOTaft Hartley Act

GI Bill

Economic GrowthKorea and NSC-68Higher levels of educationWorks shifts away from

agriculture White collar jobsCheap energyLow oil prices

Baby Boom

Suburbs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_2lGkEU4Xs

1950s Consumerism

Women in the 50sMarch in to work force, two of

every five married mothers worked outside the home by 1959

Popular culture pushes idea of “cult of domesticity”

Benjamin Spock and “The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care”

Betty Friedan and the Feminine Mystique

American keeps movingSunbelt SuburbsWhite Flight

Rock and Roll http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpzV_0l5ILI

Crossover musicElvisChuck Berry

New American LiteratureSylvia Plath and the Bell JarHemingway and The Old Man and

the SeaNorman Mailer- The Naked and

the DeadJohn Updike- Run, Rabbit, Run

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible

Beginning of the Cold WarDivision of Germany and the “iron

curtain”

Berlin Airlift

United Nations

Truman DoctrineI believe that it must be the policy of the United States to

support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.

Marshall Plan

America RearmsNational Security Act creates the

Department of Defense, the National Security Council and the CIA

NATO- North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Rebuilding AsiaMacArthur and Japan

China falls to Mao

McCarthyismSmith Act- first peace time

sedition actHUACHollywood Ten and BlacklistNixon v Alger HissJulius and Ethel Rosenberg

Election of 1948Division in Democratic partyDixiecrats- Strom Thurmond

Truman and the Fair DealImproved housingFull employmentHigher minimum wageNew TVAsSocial Security

It fails!

Korean War