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Postwar America Armed forces 12 mil 3 mil Birthrate up (baby boom) Consumer spending up –High inflation Growth of big business –Lots of strikes More women.

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2 Postwar America Armed forces 12 mil 3 mil Birthrate up (baby boom) Consumer spending up –High inflation Growth of big business –Lots of strikes More women in labor force Growth of cities and suburbs

3 GI Bill 1944 (Servicemens Readjustment Act) Education payments Medical care Job training Unemployment pensions Mortgage loans for veterans

4 Fair Deal (extension of New Deal) Expand Social Security benefits Increase min. wage.40.65/hr. Full employment bill End racial discrimination in housing Public housing and slum clearance Federal aid to education National health insurance Stronger Fair Employment Practices Commission

5 Taft-Hartley Act 1947 passed by Republican-controlled Congress over Trumans veto No closed shop 80-day cooling off period President – power to stop strikes if harmful to nation Union officials required to sign noncommunist oath Unions not allowed to contribute to political campaigns

6 National Housing Act 1949 6-year plan to build low-income housing Rent subsidies

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11 Issues in the 1952 Election IKE: clean up the mess in Washington IKE: I shall go to Korea Rep: Democrats the party of Communism, Corruption, and Korea Dem: Nixons $18,000 slush fund (Checkers speech) Senator McCarthy TV

12 HUAC 1947-1954 Committee to investigate communist infiltration Richard Nixon - Alger Hiss - Whitaker Chambers

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14 1948/12/15 - Hiss indicted for perjury - 1st trial ends 1949/07 with hung jury, but 2nd trial convicts Hiss 1950/01/21 - sentenced to 5 years in prison, but serves 44 months in Lewisburg prison

15 1948/12/02 - Nixon finds pumpkin papers hidden in Chambers's Maryland garden - 5 rolls of microfilm (2 rolls contained photos of confidential government dispatches)

16 The Second Red Scare Julius and Ethel Rosenberg –charged with conspiracy to commit espionage –tried under the Espionage Act of 1917 –passing secrets of atomic bomb to the Soviets –guilty verdict 1951 –executed 1953

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18 Army-McCarthy Hearings 1954 witch hunt for communists in U.S. government –defense department list of 205 commies censured by Senate I have carried on my part in the fight against communism as best I know how http://www.youtube.com/wat ch?v=X_uTbVfDtgI&featur e=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/wat ch?v=X_uTbVfDtgI&featur e=related

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20 What do we do now???

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22 Blast from the Past

23 Sputnik Explorer I Laika

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26 Franchises A.Harland Sanders B.Burger King C.McDonalds (Where is the First Macs?)

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28 Interstate Highway Act of 1956

29 William J. Leavitt The Burbs The Dream

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31 America hits the Road!!! (How many cars can you name?)

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34 I [name][rank] in the Captain Video Space Academy do solemnly pledge to obey my mommy and daddy, be kind to dumb animals and old ladies in and out of space, not to tease my little brothers and sisters, and to brush my teeth twice a day and drink milk after every meal. Captain Video Ranger PledgeI [name][rank] in the Captain Video Space Academy do solemnly pledge to obey my mommy and daddy, be kind to dumb animals and old ladies in and out of space, not to tease my little brothers and sisters, and to brush my teeth twice a day and drink milk after every meal. Captain Video Ranger Pledge

35 Sell, sell, sell!!!

36 The Twist Chuck Berry Jerry Lee Lewis

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38 1943 To 1954

39 Golden Age of Baseball

40 An American Institution

41 What are little girls made of?

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43 Happy Family Dolls dolls will allow girls to play out three generations of family Midge Alan Ryan toddler son September 19 2003

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45 AVON's Spring Blossom Barbie

46 AVON's Spring Blossom Barbie Pog Barbie

47 Sam's Club: Winter Fantasy Sear's: Ribbons and Roses

48 Toys'r'Us: Got Milk? Barbie Hills: Teddy Fun Barbie Walmart: Skating Star Barbie FAO Schwarz: Shopping Spree Barbie Target Valentine Barbie JcPenney's: Winter Renaissance Barbie Toys'r'Us: Sunflower Barbie Hills: Polly Pocket Barbie Toys'r'Us: Got Milk? Barbie Hills: Teddy Fun Barbie

49 Disney's Aladdin

50 Disney's The Seven Dwarves

51 Disney's Davy Crockett

52 Ikes Modern Republicanism People first! limited government interference in the affairs of states and in private business retained all of the social and economic legislation developed during the New Deal and Fair Deal eras expanded federal programs such as... – Social Security –aid to education (NDEA, 1958) –public housing and slum clearance (Housing Act of 1955) –public health $1.00 minimum wage expanded civil rights for blacks –Brown v. Board of Education (1954, 1955) –Rosa Parks (1955-56) –Little Rock 9 (1957) –Civil Rights Act (1957) no literacy tests

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