Social Changes

GI Bill to the Internet

Baby Boom

1940s

GI Bill

1950s

Suburbia

Levittown

Urban Sprawl

White Flight

Domesticity

1960s – Camelot

Great Society

War on Poverty Civil Rights Act Voting Rights Act Medicare Medicaid Clean Water Act National Endowment

for the Arts Head Start

Anti-War Protests1968 Democratic Convention

Campus Shootings

Kent State (May 4, 1970)

Campus Shootings

Jackson State (May 14, 1970)

Moon Landing

1970s

Women’s MovementBirth Control PillERARoe v. Wade

Divorce Rates

1970s

Rise of TelevangelismJogging (Personal Fitness)

Discussion:

In terms of society’s values, how do the nineteen seventies compare to the nineteen sixties?

1970s

Crisis of Confidence Speech – July 15, 1979

1980s

Yuppies

Greed is Good

Technology

VCR

PCs

Walkman

1990s – Race Issues

Rodney King

LA Riots

OJ Simpson

Welfare Reform

Welfare Reform

Internet

Discussion

Turn to a neighbor. Discuss the ways in which American

Society have changed over the last 50 years.

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