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President Truman
• GI Bill of Rights – Free college education – Cheap home loans – Led to growth of the middle class
• “Fair Deal” – More New Deal-like Programs
• Taft-Hartley Act – Ended ‘closed shop’ – 60 day strike notification
• President’s Committee on Civil Rights – Integrated the military
• Dixiecrats – Segregation
Slide #14
Cold War at Home
• H-Bomb – Bomb Shelters
– Duck & Cover
Effects of the Cold War
• Space Exploration
– 1957 Sputnik
– 1958 NASA created
– National Defense Education Act
1957
1961
Economy
• Corporations
• Consumerism
• “Planned Obsolescence”
• Conformity
• More white collar (business or professional) jobs
Suburbs
Levittown
Women
• Traditional role for women
• Baby Boom
• Women in the Media
– I Love Lucy
– Marilyn Monroe
Slide #20
Teen Culture
• Rebel Without a Cause (James Dean)
• Rock & Roll (Elvis)
• Juvenile Delinquency