the fifties – the four a’s anxiety, anti-communism, affluence, alienation
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- The Fifties The Four As ANXIETY, ANTI-COMMUNISM, AFFLUENCE, ALIENATION
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- ANXIETY
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- Cold War
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- The Russian Bomb, 49
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- Civil Defense Bert the Turtle Says Duck and Cover
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- Our H-Bomb, 52
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- Their H-bomb, 53
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- New Look: Mutual Assured Destruction
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- October 4, 1957
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- Push Button Age
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- This is Only A Test
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- Fallout
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- No Need to Worry
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- There Wouldnt Be Such Anxiety if it wasnt for those Godless Communists!
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- ANTI-COMMUNISM
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- International Communism is a Disease
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- Domestic Anti-Communism
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- Fighting Commies at Home J. Edgar Hoover FBI Sen. Joe McCarthy 205 Names! Richard Nixon
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- Execute A Few P.S. They Were Guilty
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- Put A Few Behind Bars Hollywood Ten Alger Hiss
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- Ruin a Few Careers Dalton Trumbo Blacklisted 13 years
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- Who You Can Trust? Loyalty Oaths, 1950
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- They Could Be Hiding Under Your Bed!
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- You Could Bowl with One on Tuesdays
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- Conformist Society: Dont Stand Out in A Crowd
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- Whatever Communists Dont Like, We Like: State vs. Family
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- Everyone is Getting Married
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- Even in the Comics
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- Post War Baby Boom
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- Womans Place But, Women work more as decade goes on
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- Gender Roles Very Clear
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- Return of the Full Figured Star
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- TV Tells us How to Behave Cult of Domesticity
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- Heroes and Villains
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- Atheism vs. Godliness Stalin Tears Down Moscows Cathedral To Build.
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- We Get More Religious
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- Under God
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- Family, Religion, Gender Roles Separate Us from Communists But, Bottom Line, Were Also Far Wealthier Highest Standard of Living in History
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- AFFLUENCE
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- U.S. Economic Dominance After World War II U.S. Produces 45% of World Economy
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- G.I. Bill
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- Marshall Plan, 1947 $13 Billion in aid to Western Europe Especially France and Italy why? Huge Success Home & Abroad
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- Suburbs $10,000 homes FHA and VA Loans
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- Business and Labor Harmony Big Labor Prospers Good Pay, 40 hour week Factory Workers Buy Homes 60% Americans Are Home Owners Big Business Booms
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- Credit Cards Diners Club, 1950 Sears cards for the rest of us
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- Interstate Highway System
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- Vacation and Leisure
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- New Industries
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- Consumption is Patriotic!
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- ALIENATION
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- Exlusion = Alienation De Jure or De Facto, It Still Spells Segregation
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- Suburban American Dream?
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- Public Accomodations Rosa Parks, 1955 Martin Luther King Why Ministers? Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1956
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- The Warren Court Brown v Board of Education, 1954
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- School Integration
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- Conformity = Alienation
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- Abstract Expressionism Jackson Pollock
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- BeBop Charlie Parker Dizzie Gillespie
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- Literature: Chaos, Spontaneity, Alienation Burroughs, Ginsburg, Kerouac The BEATS
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- Sex Which View Represented the 50s? Playboy 1953
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- Youth culture and rebellion Anti-Materialism, Anti-Conformity Marlon Brando James Dean
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- Extreme Comics
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- Birth of RocknRoll
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- A 5th A??
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- Anticipation
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- The Fifties The Four As ANXIETY, ANTI-COMMUNISM, AFFLUENCE, ALIENATION