usa After ww2 Flashcards
Why did the American economy go boom in the 1940s?
after ww2 factories started making more consumer goods and then there was a baby boom needing to make baby products
Why did the American economy go boom in the 1950s?
Baby boom ment more children meaning needing more homes built in suburbs and cars
How did president Kennedy try to change American society?
He cut taxes
Raised minimum wage
Gave money to businesses creating many jobs
Planned to bring in medical care
How did president Johnson try to change American society?
Set up medical care to give health care to the poor
Allowed African Americans to vote
Raiser minimum wage again
Gave money to schools
How did McCarthyism affect America?
Claimed communists had top jobs in America
Led to witch hunts to find and remove them
Many innocent people accused and lost lives
How did popular culture develop after ww2?
Cinemas became less popular as they had tvs
Cinemas had 3D and drive in
Rock and roll was the new popular music
How did people campaign for civil rights for African Americans ?
Brown v board of education-schools got desegregated
Little Rock nine- 9 black kids faced horrible bullying going to a Newley desegregated school
Freedom riders- rode on segregated public transport
How did MLK campaign for civil rights?
Led the Montgomery bus boycott after Rosa parks refused to give up her seat on a bus
Organised a protest march in Birmingham
How was violence used to campaign for civil rights?
Malcom X belived white people where evil and needed to stop racism
The watts race riot led to 34 deaths
The black panthers killed police men
How did life change for women in ww2?
Betty Friedan wrote the feminine mystique
Set up the NOW
Women’s libs-protester about throwing women’s curlers and bras away
Made abortion legal