Week 13 Topics Suburban Growth

Writing Assignment #3: Assess California’s economic, social, and political developments since WWII

Paper Due May 13 Wed

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MINORITIES

• Blacks, Mexicans

• ++ jobs

• ++middle class

AGRICULTURE

• Bracero

• Guest workers

Bracero Program 1942-1964 http://www.farmworkers.org/bpaccord.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UqmPYQ_Vb0

Braceros in Los Angeles in 1942.

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• Japanese-American Internment – The military persuaded FDR to issue Executive Order

9066.

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A 1942 photograph by Dorothea Lange

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkeXCQkro_c&feature=related

• Relocated to camps

• Poor food, unsanitary conditions

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• Civil rights?

– Nisei, American-born

• Racist hysteria

• 442nd most decorated

Sleepy Lagoon case 1942-1944

• On August 2, 1942 Jose Diaz was found dead in the Sleepy Lagoon.

• The young Mexican Americans were convicted. Aztec rituals were used as evidence of the violent nature of Mexican Americans

• In October, 1944, the Court of Appeal of the State of California reversed the convictions

• Zoot-Suit Riots in Los Angeles

– Clyde Duncan, Harlem, inspired by the film Gone with the Wind http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mM8iNarcRc

– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zKP-_oIADg

– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orhf_Xv6HCA

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Zoot-Suit Riots https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwINn5DEL1c

• 1943 LA Pachuco Riots

• June 3, 1943 sailors attacked Mexican-Americans ------------

• By June 9 State Department declared LA off limits to military

• Factors – racial prejudice stimulated by police

practices & inflammatory newspaper reports

• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/zoot/eng_sfeature/sf_lamap.html#

The End of the War

• Harry Truman

• The Manhattan Project

– Atomic bomb

• The Dawn of the Atomic Age

– August 6, 1945 Hiroshima

– August 9, 1945 Nagasaki

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Socialism

• Any theories that call for the collective or government ownership of the means of production.

• A stage of society in Marxism between capitalism and communism

• A lot of varieties

Communism

• A theory that calls for the end of private property

• A doctrine based on Marxian socialism

• A totalitarian government in which a single party controls state-owned means of production.

Origins of the Cold War

• The Two Powers

– The only power that could rival the United States was the Soviet Union.

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• The Roots of Containment • U.S. Diplomat: George Kennan

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• Cold War Politics

• 1st world

• 2nd world

• 3rd world

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AEROSPACE

• UCLA, Cal Tech

Stanford University

• Post-war $$$

• Silicon Valley

McCarthyism

– HUAC hearings against Hollywood 10 began in 1947.

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McCarthyism

– Campaign to rid the of U.S. of communist infiltrators

– Targeted groups • Union leaders

• College professors

• actors

Original September 1950 Written Loyalty Statement

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– After the war, the American economy enjoyed remarkable growth.

– USA economy 1950s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mctiO5FWWWI9 mins

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Figure 24.1 Real Gross Domestic Product Per

Capita, 1790–2000

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Consumerism

The frozen TV dinner was introduced

and marketed in 1954.

• A Suburban Nation

– The main engines of economic growth: residential construction & spending on consumer goods.

– California became the most prominent symbol of the postwar suburban boom.

25 An aerial view of Westchester, a community

in Los Angeles

SUBURBS

1955

The Culture of the Car

First McDonald’s (1955)

Drive-In Movies

Howard Johnson’s

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• The TV World

– TV avoided controversy and projected a bland image of middle-class life.

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Suburban Living: The Typical TV Suburban

Families The Donna Reed Show 1958-1966

Leave It to Beaver 1957-1963

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

JPnG1-CbkYM

Father Knows Best 1954-1958

The Ozzie & Harriet Show 1952-1966

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-qk4FMTkKo

– Women were expected to get married, have kids, and stay at home.

• Baby boom

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• A Segregated Landscape

– The suburbs remained segregated communities.

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• Roads, freeways

• further segregation

Chavez Ravine

• 1940s communities of La Loma, Palo Verde, and Bishop

• 300 families evicted

Mendez v. Westminster School District 1947

challenged the practice of

school segregation

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– legal challenges to the “Separate but Equal” in

• 1896 in Plessy v. Ferguson.

–Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas • Segregated schools violated the equal protections of

• the law guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment

Writing Assignment #3: Assess California’s economic, social, and political developments.

Describe the major political, economic, and social developments in California since the beginning of WWII.

(Why does California experience tremendous population growth? What are the economic opportunities in California? What are the politics that turned California into a leader in aerospace and defense? What are California’s social changes and challenges in terms of race relations?

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