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1 The United States of America 1940-1960 a brief survey

2 The 1940s

3 The bombing of Pearl Harbor
Historical events The bombing of Pearl Harbor December

4 Dropping the A-bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
1945 Dropping the A-bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki August Victory of the Allied Powers Internment camps

5 The onset of the Cold War

6 Social changes The Baby Boom The GI Bill

7 Immigration of European intellectuals
Albert Einstein physicist Arnold Schoenberg composer Theodor W. Adorno philosopher

8 Some representative authors and literary works in the 1940s
Richard Wright: Native Son (1940) Black Boy (1945) Eudora Welty: The Robber Bridegroom (1942) Delta Wedding (1946) William Saroyan: The Human Comedy (1943) Saul Bellow: Dangling Man (1944) The Victim (1947) Norman Mailer: The Naked and the Dead (1948) Irwin Shaw: The Young Lions (1949)

9 The Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1952
The 1950s The Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1952 Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower ( ) Pres. Harry S. Truman (1951) The Korean War ( ) 1953 Sen. Joseph McCarthy

10 The Montgomery Bus Boycott and Martin Luther King Jr.
The onset of the Civil Rights Movement The Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955) Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. (1955)

11 Some representative authors and literary works in the 1950s
J.D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye (1951) Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man (1953) James Baldwin: Go Tell It On the Mountain (1953) Arthur Miller: The Crucible (1953) Saul Bellow: Seize the Day (1956) Jack Kerouac: On the Road (1957)

12 The 1960s Lyndon B. Johnson ( ) John F. Kennedy ( )

13 The Vietnam War (1965-1975) $111 billion spent 58,193 soldiers killed
Over 150,000 wounded Over 21,000 permanently disabled

14 The Age of Youth

15 The Space Race The new frontier

16 The Civil Rights Act of 1964 The act forbids discrimination on the basis of sex as well as race in hiring, promoting, and firing.

17 Some representative authors and literary works in the 1960s
1960: John Updike: Rabbit, Run William Styron: Set This House on Fire John Barth: The Sot-Weed Factor 1961: Joseph Heller: Catch-22 Bernard Malamud: A New Life J.D. Salinger: Franny and Zooey 1962: Vladimir Nabokov: Pale Fire Philip Roth: Letting Go Ken Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 1963: Thomas Pynchon: V. Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar Kurt Vonnegut: Cat’s Cradle 1964: Saul Bellow: Herzog William S. Burroughs: Nova Express Ken Kesey: Sometimes A Great Notion 1965: Norman Mailer: An American Dream Kurt Vonnegut: God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater Frank Herbert: Dune

18 1966: Thomas Pynchon: The Crying of Lot 49
John Barth: Giles Goat-Boy Bernard Malamud: The Fixer 1967: Chaim Potok: The Chosen John Barth: The End of the Road William Styron: The Confessions of Nat Turner 1968: N. Scott Momaday: House Made of Dawn Richard Brautigan: In Watermelon Sugar Chaim Potok: The Promise 1969: Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse-Five Philip Roth: Portnoy’s Complaint Irwin Shaw: Rich Man, Poor Man

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