Notes on Late Twentieth Century American History and Culture Flashcards
once again, America intervenes on a large scale in global affairs, first through economic aid to the allied powers battling _______
European fascism
after Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, direct military action against ______, ______ and ______, in alliance with ______, ______, and _______
Germany, Italy and Japan, Britain, France, and USSR
economic growth field by war production finally gets America out of the _______
Great Depression
the rationalized destruction of _______ Jews in the _______ and the unimaginable power of the atomic weapons that end the _____ war will cast a long shadow over the postwar consciousness
6 million, Holocaust, Asian
_____ magazine publisher _______ declares this “_________”
Time, Henry Luce, the America century
US soon finds itself involved in a “______” which will be fought out in both the countries of Europe (____, ______, ______) and in the decolonizing territories of the so-called Third World (_____, _____, _____)
Cold War, Germany, Greece, Yugoslavia, Korea, Cuba, Vietnam
upshot is a permanent _______ economy
military
domestic repression of Communists, former communists and other left wing types: ________
McCarthyism
many American intellectuals will be especially sensitive to the specter of the atomic bomb and the contradictions of American ______
imperialism
First, in the imperial adventuring of American foreign policy; in the ______ intervenes of __________ or the debacle of _______, widely acknowledged as the first war America had ever lost.
“cowboy”, Cuba’s Bay of Pigs, Vietnam
Second in the self-consciously titled _______ of the American ______ program, a key component of America’s rivalry with the ______
“New Frontier”, Space, Soviet Union
postmodern works tend to feature an even greater skepticism toward mainstream ________ and ______ systems of belief
religious, political
a very ______ approach to the making of art, which often includes self-reflexive moments
self-concious
simultaneous fascination with, and repulsion toward, popular or mass _________ (eg. television)
cultural forms
emphasis on _____, ________, _______ and ______
complexity, ambiguity, undecidability, irony
a self-conscious ________ that mixes and juxtaposes elements of high and low culture, or parodic ally confronts the present with the past (____________)
eclecticism, “learning from Las Vegas”
_______ remains the cultural capital of America, and ________ becomes institutionalized as the official high culture of the elite.
New York, modernism
_______ and the __________ become dominant paradigm in modern painting
Picasso, Abstract Expressionists
the highly intellectualized, allusive free verse poetry of ________ becomes the favored model for postwar American poetry
T. S. Elliott
Key challenge to this modernist hegemony is the loose moment centered first in _______ and later ________ known as Beat (_______, _______, _______)
New York, San Francisco, Kerouac, Burroughs, Ginsberg
movement in many ways harks back to the tenets of American Romanticism inits pursuit of _______, ________, and a rejection of American ______
cosmic consciousness, radical individualism, materialism
Beats are interested in ______, _______ and _______ as means of transcendence
Eastern religion, drugs, non-monogamous sexuality
The ________ Economy that has been developing in America since the late nineteenth century continues to grow during this period.
consumer
Unionized _______ workers join the middle class.
blue-collar
