The Beginning of the Cold War

TAKE FIVE…

What does a “cold War” refer to ?

Soviet-American Tensions

Capitalism vs CommunismThe Yalta Conference

The United NationsOccupation of Poland

Lublin Poles vs. London PolesOccupation of Germany

Atomic bomb

The “Big Three”

Containment

China’s fall to communismChiang vs. Mao Zedong

Revival of JapanTruman DoctrineMarshall Plan

Sec. of State George C. MarshallEconomic Cooperation Administration

Mao Zedong Chiang Kai Shek

President Truman

Iron Curtain

Containment (con’t)

PreparednessSelective Service SystemAtomic Energy CommissionNational Security Act

Department of DefenseNational Security CouncilCIA

Take Five…

What does the Berlin Blockade refer to?

Division of Germany

Federal RepublicDemocratic RepublicBerlin BlockadeNATOWarsaw Pact

U.S. Economy

Servicemen’s Readjustment ActLabor unrest

StrikesDisplaced workers

Truman’s “Fair Deal”Social Security benefitsFair Employment Practices ActConservatism

Taft-Hartley Act

The Election of 1948

Democrats dividedDixiecrat Party

Strom ThurmondAmericans for Democratic Action

Thomas Dewey-RepublicanGood for nothing Congress

Truman’s Fair Deal Revised

Minimum wageSocial SecurityNational Housing ActCivil rights legislation

Fair Employment Practices CommitteeDiscrimination and Segregation

The Korean War38th Parallel

Communist northPro-western south

A Civil WarU.S. “defense perimeter”UN Assistance

General Douglas MacArthurChinese involvementThe Martin Letter

Truman fires MacArthurKorean war results

DMZ

General Douglas MacArthur

The U.S. During the Korean War

EconomyOffice of Defense MobilizationAnxiety grows regarding communismThe Forgotten War

Kim Il Sung (1952-1994)

Kim Jong Il (1994-2011)

Kim Jong Un

Subversion in America

House Un-American Activities CommissionThe evils of Hollywood

The Hollywood Ten“blacklist”

Federal Loyalty ProgramHoover FilesMcCarran Internal Security ActThe Rosenberg CaseMcCarthyism

Joseph McCarthy

Senator Joe McCarthy

The Rosenbergs

Election of 1952

Adlai StevensonDwight Eisenhower

Richard M. NixonRepublican Victory

“We Like Ike”

Dwight Eisenhower

The Good “Ole 50’s

50’s Hair-The “Ducktail” or The “Flip”

50’s Fashion

Don’t forget the men

50’s Fads

3D Glasses at the Movies Coonskin Caps

Hula HoopsPink-everything-even cars!Poodles (pink of course!)Telephone booth

cramming!(U.S. record 22 at St. Mary’s college in

CA)

Don’t try this at home

George Burns and Gracie Allen (1950)

How sweet it is…

The Honeymooners first aired in 1952.

The 50’s was also a time for westerns!

Davy Crockett “killed him a baer when he was only 3”

Gunsmoke-One of the longest running westerns aired in 1955

Hop-along-Cassidy (1947) Roy Rogers (1951) Zorro (1957)

Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955-1965)

American Bandstand attracts young viewers-and a young Dick Clark (1956)

How old IS Dick Clark anyway?

Dick Clark was born Nov. 30, 1929

He is 78!

The 1950’s TV audience loved games shows…

The $64,000 questionTo tell the truthThe Price is right—not Bob Barker but in 1956-

Bill Cullen21What is my line?This is your lifeQueen for a day

“Queen for a day”

What a scandal!

At the game show peak there were 22 game shows on prime time tv! Until… What? Game shows rigged? That’s right folks in 1958 a Congressional hearing determined that “winners” had been supplied with the answers in advance! Networks and sponsors decided to pull the plug on game shows for a while!

The Blue Mountain Boys

Who is that in the middle?

Early 1950’s musical artists: Patti Page The Andrews Sisters Nat King Cole Guy Lombardo Rosemary Clooney Frank Sinatra Doris Day Marlene Dietrich

1955-The birth of rock and roll Dean Martin * Fabian Little Richard * Frankie Avalon* The Platters * Conway Twitty Bill Haley and the Comets * Ritchie Valens Pat Boone * Buddy Holley Johnny Cash * Connie Francis Jerry Lee Lewis Chuck Berry Ricky Nelson

“Going to a garden party…”

Ricky Nelson

Elvis Presley-”The King”

Thank you, thank you very much

Elvis appears on the Ed Sullivan show in 1956

The network wouldn’t show Elvis from the waist down because of his “sexual movements”—coined “the Elvis Pelvis”

The Good Old 1950’s-An Age of Prosperity

“Rock-n-Roll is here to stay”

J. Edgar Hoover

The Economy of the 1950’s

Reasons for economic growthGovernment spending

American WestMilitary spendingExpansion of suburbsThe baby boom

A New Labor ForceThe power of unionization

AFL-CIOGeorge Meany

Teamsters UnionDavid BeckJimmy Hoffa

White collar vs blue collar

Jimmy Hoffa (1913-1975?)

Poverty in America in the 50’s

The Other AmericaMichael Harrington

Elderly and minoritiesRural poverty

Declining farm pricesTechnologyPesticides

DDTPaul MullerProblems w/ DDT

Poverty Continued

Inner-city povertyGhettoesRelocation of industry and jobsRise in juvenile crime

Women and the family

The Feminine MystiqueRenewed interest in religion

Billy GrahamRock and roll culture

ElvisThe “Beatniks”

Michael Harrington

Science and Technology of the 1950’sMedical Advances

ImmunizationsSmall poxPolio

Polio Vaccination Act of 1955Results

Infant mortality ratesAve. life expectancy

Early Smallpox Vaccinations

Technological InnovationsTelevisionColor TVRCA’s David Sarnoff Labs.TV Networks

TransistorsIntegrated circuitsComputer Technology

UNIVACRemington Rand Co.1952 Election resultsIBM

Dwight Eisenhower (1952-1960)

The Eisenhower AdministrationBalancing the budgetSocial securityInterstate Highway and Defense

System Act The demise of McCarthyism

Army-McCarthy hearingsThe Cold War Stalemate

“brinksmanship”U-2 Crisis

A revised containment policy

Iran Israel Guatemala Cuba Vietnam

The Cold War Stalemate

“brinksmanship”MAD-Mutually Assured Destruction

Effects of the Nuclear Arms Race

Military technologySpace race

SputnikNASANational Defense Education ActBomb shelters

Sputnik

Apollo

Images from Space “The Blue Marble”

Gemini

Advancements into Space…