Ch.26 Flashcards
Military Industrial Complex
employed 3.5 million Americans.military establishment and defense contractors..
Sputnik
Soviet Union launched the world’s first satellite in 1957. This led to America to worry that they were fallng behind technologically, so Eisenhower got the congress to give them money for scholarships and university research.
Affluent Society and The Other America
affluent society analyzed the successful middle class which led to people saying that the poor are an after thought. Four years later The Other America came out focusing on the poor.
GI Bill
gave servicemen loans for college, housing, and businesses.
Television
it was an upgrade in technology as big as the automobile and personal computer. By 1947 there were over 7000 TV sets in homes. A typical show in the 1950 was Queen for a Day where the women would get on a tell the most tragic story in exchange for household items.
Teenage Rebellion and Rock n Roll
Teenager became more willing an free, they were spending a lot, and were the most to go to motion picture. Rock n Roll really defined the teenagers which is where they found Elvis Presley.
The Beat Movement
a group of writers and poets in New York and San Francisco who disclaimed middle class materialism.
Baby Boom
a period where people were having children at the same time averaging 3.2 children per couple in the 19502
Dr.Spock
he wrote Spock’s Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care which sold 1 million copies every year. This was a guide for mothers in the 1950s
Women’s expectations and work challenges
women were expected to raise children , attend to home duties, and devote themselves to their husbands’ happiness.Most working class women had to earn a pay check to support their family like teaching, nursing, etc.
Griswold v. Connecticut
Because there were so many people getting married under the age of 21 and the birth control pill came out only few doctors prescribed it to women and not many liked it anyways. Soon the supreme court ruled it to be a privacy right.
Dr. Kinsey’s scandalous studies
became known as the “sex doctor” because of his publications of sexual behavior in male and females and documented sexual experiences of thousands of american.
Hugh Hefner and Playboy
Hefner founded the playboy magazine, a fictional hip bachelors and women who lived in a mansion.
Levittowns
mass- produced cookie cutter houses
Interstate and Defense Highways Act
more cars meant there needed more highways leading to the authorization of $26 billion dollars for highway
