1. At home Mini recession as soldiers returned GI Bill, FHA and the VA help Operation Dixie and the CIO Taft Hartley Act

2. GI Bill

3. Economic Growth Korea and NSC-68 Higher levels of education Works shifts away from agriculture White collar jobs Cheap energy Low oil prices

4. Baby Boom

5. Suburbs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_2lGkEU4Xs

6. 1950s Consumerism

10. Women in the 50s March in to work force, two of every five married mothers worked outside the home by 1959 Popular culture pushes idea of “cult of domesticity” Benjamin Spock and “The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care” Betty Friedan and the Feminine Mystique

11. American keeps moving Sunbelt Suburbs White Flight

12. Rock and Roll http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpzV_0l5ILI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpzV_0l5ILI Crossover music Elvis Chuck Berry

13. New American Literature Sylvia Plath and the Bell Jar Hemingway and The Old Man and the Sea Norman Mailer- The Naked and the Dead John Updike- Run, Rabbit, Run Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible

14. Beginning of the Cold War Division of Germany and the “iron curtain”

15. Berlin Airlift

16. United Nations

17. Truman Doctrine I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.

18. Marshall Plan

19. America Rearms National Security Act creates the Department of Defense, the National Security Council and the CIA

20. NATO- North Atlantic Treaty Organization

21. Rebuilding Asia MacArthur and Japan China falls to Mao

22. McCarthyism Smith Act- first peace time sedition act HUAC Hollywood Ten and Blacklist Nixon v Alger Hiss Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

24. Election of 1948 Division in Democratic party Dixiecrats- Strom Thurmond

25. Truman and the Fair Deal Improved housing Full employment Higher minimum wage New TVAs Social Security It fails!

26. Korean War