Decades 1950 s Consumerism Move to suburbs and
Decades
1950 s Consumerism Move to suburbs and white flight Advertising Cult of domesticity Birth of rock and roll Civil Rights Sputnik! Mc. Carthyism
Polio ends! Jonas Salk
1950 s Presidents: Truman, Eisenhower
1960 s “High 60 s” Cold War (U 2 Incident, Cuban Missile Crisis) Vietnam Counterculture Continuation of Civil Rights Movement Women’s Rights movement British invasion
Presidents: JFK, LBJ http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=kq 1 Pb ge. Bo. Q 4
Betty Friedan and the women’s movement It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself. A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all
Apollo 11 Lands
I Have a Dream
Hippies
Woodstock
British Invasion
American Literature Norman Mailer, Jack Kerouac “The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!”
1968! MLK assassinated RFK assassinated Altamont concert End of the hippies? !? !
1970 s Environmental Crisis Gas Crisis Continuation of Vietnam
Presidents Nixon, Ford
Watergate
Silent Spring- Rachel Carson
Energy Crisis
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