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Hist1302 Week 11
The document is a lecture outline on the Cold War boom period in the United States from 1946-1960. It covers topics such as the origins of the Cold War, the postwar economic boom, suburban expansion, challenges to racial equality, and cultural trends including rising consumerism and the idealization of suburban family life in popular television shows. The outline breaks the content into six parts structured around these major themes and events of the period.
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Hist1302 Week 11
- 1. The Cold WarBoom 1946-1960 US History Survey Mini-Lectures 1865 to the Present
- 2. Week 11 VirtualClassroom The Cold War in a Global Context Part 1: Origins of the Cold War; Containing the Soviets and Dividing Europe; Cold War Showdowns Outside Europe
- 3. Origins of theCold War
- 4. George Kennan Containing theSoviets and Dividing Europe
- 6. Ho Chi Minh ColdWar Showdowns Outside Europe
- 7. Mao Zedong Cold WarShowdowns Outside Europe
- 9. Cold War ShowdownsOutside Europe
- 12. C-SPAN Korean WarProgramming
- 13. Biography of HoChi Minh
- 14. Ho Chi Minh-A Life C-SPAN Video Library
- 15. The Cold WarBoom 1946-1960 US History Survey 1865 to the Present
- 16. Week 11 VirtualClassroom The New Deal Under Attack Part 2: Capitalism Regains the Initiative; The Failure of Interracial Solidarity; The 1948 Election
- 17. The New DealUnder Attack
- 18. Capitalism Regains theInitiative
- 19. The Failure ofInterracial Solidarity
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- 21. The Cold WarBoom 1946-1960 US History Survey 1865 to the Present
- 22. Week 11 VirtualClassroom The New Deal Under Attack Part 3: The Weapon of Anti-Communism; Eisenhower’s “Modern Republicanism”
- 23. The Weapon ofAnti-Communism
- 24. The Weapon ofAnti-Communism
- 25. The Weapon ofAnti-Communism
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- 28. Biographical Vignette: DwightD. Eisenhower
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- 30. Eisenhower's "Military-Industrial Complex"Speech Origins and Significance
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- 32. The Cold WarBoom 1946-1960 US History Survey 1865 to the Present
- 33. Week 11 VirtualClassroom The Affluent Society and Its Discontents Part 4: The Postwar Economic Boom; The Service Economy; The New Sexual Orthodoxy
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- 43. The New SexualOrthodoxy
- 45. The Wisdom ofWard Cleaver (1958)
- 46. Ozzie and Harriet: OzzieExplains Women To Rick
- 47. Urban Legends Decoded:The Hook
- 48. The Cold WarBoom 1946-1960 US History Survey 1865 to the Present
- 49. Week 11 VirtualClassroom The Affluent Society and Its Discontents Part 5: Race and Ethnicity at Work; Unity and Division Within the Working Class
- 50. Race and Ethnicityat Work
- 51. Race and Ethnicityat Work
- 54. Unity and DivisionWithin the Working Class
- 55. The Cold WarBoom 1946-1960 US History Survey 1865 to the Present
- 56. Week 11 VirtualClassroom The Affluent Society and Its Discontents Part 6: The Ethos of a Classless Society; Suburban America; The World of Father Knows Best
- 57. The Ethos ofa Classless Society
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- 62. Popular Culture inthe 1950s: The World of Father Knows Best
- 65. Rebel Without aCause
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- 67. Blackboard Jungle 1955Trailer
- 68. Donna Reed BiographyPart 1 of 5
- 69. Civil Defense Film:"Duck and Cover"
- 70. The Way WeNever Were
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- #2 Pause and count to 5
- #3 In the week 11 virtual classroom we focus on ... For this mini-lecture our topics will be ... The Great "isms" of the 20th Century 1939 and 1941 as Watershed Years US Move to Intervention
- #4 Yalta Feb 1945 Soviet Sphere of Influence Truman's Termination of Lend-Lease
- #5 1946 George Kennan's Long Telegram Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech 1947 Truman Doctrine Marshall Plan 1948-9 Berlin Airlift Map of Cold War Europe
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- #7 Global Anti-Colonial Movement Vietnam's Civil War
- #8 Global Anti-Colonial Movement 1949 - The American "Loss" of China
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- #10 1950 - NSC-68 and Korean Conflict 1952 - First H-Bomb Tests (Illustration of Dog Dags for School Kids) Growth of Alliances: SEATO and Rio Pact CIA Involvements Interventions in Middle East and Latin America Illustration of the Soviet Backing of North Korea
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- #17 In the week 11 virtual classroom we focus on ... For this mini-lecture our topics will be ... The Great "isms" of the 20th Century 1939 and 1941 as Watershed Years US Move to Intervention
- #18 The Rise of Conservatism in America, 1945-2000 Three Phases: First Steps, 1945-1968 Expanding the Base, 1968-1980 Clean Sweep, 1980-2000 Supplemental In-Class Presentation
- #19 Rolling Back Union Power Key Legislation - Taft-Hartley Act Made Foremen "Management" Banned the Union Shop Empowered the President to "Postpone" Strikes
- #20 1946 CIO's Failed Attempt to Unionize the South - "Operation Dixie" Intervention of Outsiders Resented
- #21 1948 Progressive Party Campaign - Henry Wallace- "Jim Crow Must Go!" (CIO & AFL Endorsed Truman) 1948 Progressive Party Pushes Truman to the Left - Truman Pushes Civil Rights (Desegregated Armed Forces) 1948 "Dixiecrat" Candidacy of Strom Thurmond
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- #23 In the week 11 virtual classroom we focus on ... For this mini-lecture our topics will be ... The Great "isms" of the 20th Century 1939 and 1941 as Watershed Years US Move to Intervention
- #24 Reality of Communists in the Government Harry Dexter White (Asst. Sec. of Treasury) Alger Hiss (State Dept. Official) Anti-Communism as Partisan Strategy and Grass Roots Movement
- #25 HUAC and Hollywood Blacklist Sen. Joseph McCarthy Attacks State Dept., Ivy League and the Army (List of 205 Communists in State Dept.)
- #26 With L. Brent Bozell, Buckley Authored Book Defending McCarthy Liberals, Non-Conformists, Labor Activists, etc. as Targets Red Baiting of Union Officials Catholic Anti-Communism and Ethnicity African American Response Response of the Jewish-American Community (1950 Rosenberg Case)
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- #34 In the week 11 virtual classroom we focus on ... For this mini-lecture our topics will be ... The Great "isms" of the 20th Century 1939 and 1941 as Watershed Years US Move to Intervention
- #35 John Maynard Keynes vs. Supply-Side Economics Strong Unions - Shift in Union Demands to COLA and Across-the-Board Raises Military Spending - Military Bases in the South;Growing Aviation Industry Spending on the Interstate Highway System Chart of GDP and Maps of Military Contract Locations "Last of the Red Cars" in LA
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- #41 "Baby Boom" Shift in Population Growth Myth of Classless "Postindustrial" Society Female Labor Ghetto - Growing Female Employment vs. Type of Work Women are Doing Impact on Higher Education
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- #44 Return to the 19th C Separate Spheres Women's Roles Chart Showing "Appropriate" Roles for Women Men's Roles & Homophobia Household Division of Labor What Do We Make of Playboy and Peyton Place?
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- #50 In the week 11 virtual classroom we focus on ... For this mini-lecture our topics will be ... The Great "isms" of the 20th Century 1939 and 1941 as Watershed Years US Move to Intervention
- #51 Rise of the Secondary Labor Market More New Migrants to Cities Impact Mechanization on Southern Agriculture (also in Puerto Rico) Mexican American Migrations New Groups Faced Discrimination
- #52 Some Symbolic Change - Jackie Robinson Joined Brooklyn Dodgers (1947) Map Showing Increase in African American Population 1954 - Brown v. Board of Education - Picture of "Dolls and Discrimination"
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- #55 1955 AFL and CIO Merge Geoge Meany Leads New Orgaization Decline in Moral Standing of Unionism Focus on Fighting Adverse Affects of Automation and Gaining More Fringe Benefits.
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- #57 In the week 11 virtual classroom we focus on ... For this mini-lecture our topics will be ... The Great "isms" of the 20th Century 1939 and 1941 as Watershed Years US Move to Intervention
- #58 Eclipse of Ethnic Conflict Comprehensive High School Draft (1948-1971) GI Bill and College Boom
- #59 New Deal Foundations of the Post-War Housing Boom VA and FHA Loans Levittowns (NY and PA) Suburbanization The House Wife's Dilemma
- #60 Restrictive Covenants "Red Lining" Urban Districts Fate of Public Housing - Picture of Public Housing Highways Cutting Through Urban Neighborhoods Map of Interstate Highway System
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- #63 By 1960, TVs Were in 90% of All Homes Urban Farces of the 40s and Early 50s Replaced by Sitcoms and Westerns 1953 Father Knows Best Airs (Free From Substantive Conflict) "Beat" Writers (Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac) Rock and Roll (Elvis);Teen Rebellion in Films (James Dean); Science Fiction
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