The Cold War at Home:
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Age of Affluence
Post-War Economy:
Truman’s Fair Deal
Fair Employment Practices Commission
Labor Unrest
Labor organizers
Employers
Results
Truman Admin.
Economic Growth:
Comforts & middle class
Consumerism
Industries
Credit cards
Business leaders
Benefits
Television & automobile
TV
Car
Suburbs
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Roads
Suburbia
Results created by suburbs:
Gender spheres
Baby boom
Nuclear family
Black domesticity
Politicians
Realities of female domesticity
Women who remained in the employment sector
Occupational gains
Racial segregation
Urban ghettos
White realtors & politicians
Federal government
Result
Religious revival
Dramatic religious revival
“Under God” & “In God we Trust”
Unique religious revival
Critics of Conformity
Invasion of the Body Snatchers, 1956
Rebel Without a Cause, 1955
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Beats or beatniks
Not really a conformist culture
Environmental footprint
National Politics
Dixiecrats
Coalition
Presidential Election of 1952
Dwight D. Eisenhower
McCarthyism:
Senator Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin
Second Red Scare
Loyalty Oaths
Federal Loyalty-Security Program, 1947
Tom C. Clark
Results
Red Scare
1. Richard Nixon
Alger Hiss
2. J. Edgar Hoover
FBI Director
Tabs on people
3. Senator Joe McCarthy
Labeled
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House Un-American Activities Committee (UUAC), 1947
Hollywood Ten
Black Lists
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