Add the next 5 slide to your notes “The Cold War at Home”

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The Arms Race

• H-Bomb, 1952• the hydrogen bomb

was the first thermonuclear explosion• took place in the Marshall

Islands• 450 times Nagasaki• vaporized an entire island,

leaving behind a crater more than a mile wide

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The Arms Race

• Mutual Assured Destruction (M.A.D.)• deterrence was

knowing that if we tried to kill them we would also die

• “First strike capability” meant the ability to destroy the enemy before they could strike back

• “Second strike capability” meant the ability to strike back before being destroyed “The Peacekeeper”

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The Arms Race

• Sputnik, 1957• 1st man-made

satellite• circled the globe

every 96 minutes for 92 days

• created “missile gap” b/c Soviets were ahead in arms race and space race 4

The Arms Race

• National Defense Education Act• US emphasizes

math and science to close the “space gap”• October Sky

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The Arms Race

• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 1958• the arms race became

the space race• initial American failures

made Americans fear we were falling behind the USSR

• JFK promised in 1961 to land a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s 6

Monday April 6, 2015

• Take your seat• Take out your notebook• Open to FN: “American Prosperity”

Precious Time / Warm -UpRead over your notes highlight and add in Cornell

questions. Answer the following questions in 3-5 sentences each

1.How did the nation experience prosperity after WWII?

2.What did you find interesting about these notes? Or what do you need more information on to better understand them?

Today Agenda

• Precious Time / Warm-Up

• CH. 13 Postwar Confidence and Anxiety

• Homework:• Study Guide questions 1-10

American Prosperity 11.8.3 Examine Truman’s labor policy and congressional reaction to it.

11.8.7 Describe the effects on society and the economy of technological developments since 1945

EQ 5: How did the nation experience recovery and economic prosperity after WWII? 9

Demobilization and the Economy

• a short economic downturn after WWII led to fears of new G.D.• Congress cuts taxes

• America wealthiest civilization on Earth• 6% of world’s

population control 40% of wealth

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Fair Deal, 1948

• Truman’s domestic program• raised min. wage from 65c

to 75c an hour• expanded S.S. benefits to

cover 10 million more people

• provided government funding for 100,000 low-income public housing units and urban renewal

• expanded FDR’s New Deal programs 11

GI Bill of Rights, 1944

• $14.5 billion for veterans•go to school• farms •small businesses

• helped vets get started after the war• training, travel, and

college are still used as an incentive for the military today

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Taft-Hartley Act, 1947

• made unions liable for damages

• union leaders had to take noncommunist oath

• passed over Truman’s veto• many strikes when the

government stopped controlling the economy after the war

• AFL and CIO merged in 1955 as a result of weakening unions

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Interstate Highway Act, 1955

• Largest, most expensive public works act in U.S. history• 41,000 miles of road

• Ike built it to move the military quickly across the country• bridges had to be tall

enough for military vehicles

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McDonalds, 1953

• est. in San Bernardino, CA in 1940

• franchised in 1953• every restaurant made the

same food and looked the same

• 15¢ hamburgers made under Speedee Service System

• Roy Kroc bought the company in 1955

• 31,000 stores in 119 countries• 47 million customers per day• 1.5 million employees• $2 billion a year in advertising 15

The Original Ronald McDonald16

Disneyland, 1955

• cost $17 million to build

• newfound prosperity meant more time for leisure and entertainment• even Khrushchev wanted

to go to Disneyland• over 500 million have

gone to the park

• Disney World opened in 1971 17

EQ 5:

• How did the nation experience recovery and economic prosperity after WWII?

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Part ThreeAmerican Prosperity

11.8.1 Trace the growth of service sector, white collar, and professional sector jobs in business and government.11.8.4 Analyze new federal and state government spending on education, including the California Master Plan.

11.8.7 Describe the effects on society and the economy of technological developments since 1945EQ 6: What social and economic factors changed American life during the 1950’s?

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Frostbelt to Sunbelt

• Americans moved to the South and West

• lots more people moving from one community to another instead of staying in one place for several generations

• military and space spending increased in the Sunbelt

• Cape Canaveral

• retirement communities grew in California, Arizona, Texas, Florida 20

Suburbia

•Levittown, NY was the 1st large-scale planned community (17,000+ homes)

•white flight: middle-class moved to suburban areas to escape urban problems

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Society on the Move

• Blue Collar to White Collar labor• the # of middle-class

families doubled• average income increased

from $3,000-$10,000• 60% middle class owned

home• 90% owned a television• most families owned a car 22

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service sector

• fewer Americans worked on farms or in factories

• more and more Americans got jobs serving rather than producing• McDonalds,

accountants, retail

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California Master Plan, 1960

• set up the current system of higher education in California• Top 12.5% guaranteed spot in UC• Top 33% guaranteed spot in CSU• Everyone guaranteed spot in JCs

UCSB

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