DECADES PROJECT
Rosa Garcia
Period 3
Political Cartoon Meanings :
Symbolism - President to get on
the money.
Exaggeration - Obama on
money
Labeling - " No! I dont think it
makes you look presidental. "
Irony - He's on money but our
economy is bad.
Analogy - The women and
obama.
1950 to 1960
ECONOMICS
POLITICS
SOCIETY & CULTURE
ENVIRONMENT
Description/overview of decade
The fifties changed all our
lives so that we do live
differently now. The
scientific and mass
production advances
made during the second
World War, meant that the
fifties changed forever the
way people lived, for
example, technological
changes in fibres,
communication and
medicine.
Economic
s
Compared to today an average house in Perth Amboy
will cost 220,000. Back then a brand new house will cost
8,450. A tremendous amount of prices increased during
the years.More prices from the 50's decade :
Chrysler New Yorker $4347
Chevrolet Corvette $3631 1958
Mens All Wool Suits $28.90
Square dance Cotton Check Dress $3.29
Electric Portable Singer Sewing Machine $19.90
Ronson Electric Shaver $28.50
Rib Roast 29 cents per pound
Ritz Crackers 32 cents
Rollaway Beds $14.95
Ring 1 carat Diamond $399.00
Mechanical Adding Machine $3.98
Politics :
1950 - Pres. Harry Truman ( 'til 1952)
approves production of the hydrogen
bomb and sends air force and navy to
Korea in June. (top right picture of him)
1953 - 1961 Dwight D. Eisenhower is
president.
1952 - The Immigration and
Naturalization Act of 1952 removes racial
and ethnic barriers to becoming U.S.
citizen.
1953 - Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are
electrocuted for their part in W.W.II
espionage.
1953 - Fighting ends in Korea.
Continuing . .
1954 - U. S. Senator Joseph McCarthy begins televised
hearings into alleged Communists in the army.
1954 - Racial segregation is ruled unconstitutional in
public schools by the U.S. Supreme Court.
1955 - Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a public
bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
1955 - The American Federation of Labor and the
Congress of Industrial Organizations merge making the
new AFL-CIO an organization with 15 million members.
Society & Culture
During the fifties, American education
underwent dramatic and, for some,
world shattering changes. Until 1954, an
official policy of "separate but equal"
educational opportunities for blacks had
been determined to be the correct
method to insure that all children in
America received an adequate and
equal education in the public schools of
the nation. In 1954, Chief Justice Earl
Warren and other members of the
Supreme Court wrote in Brown v. the
Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
that separate facilities for blacks did not
make those facilities equal according to
the Constitution.
Education
Music
When the 1950s are mentioned,
the first type of music to come to
most people's minds is rock 'n
roll. Developed from a blend of
Southern blues and gospel music
with an added strong back beat,
this type of music was popular
with teenagers who were trying to
break out of the mainstream,
conservative, American middle
class mold. Popular artists such
as Bill Haley, Elvis Presley,
and Jerry Lee Lewis were
promoted on radio by just as
popular disc-jockeys (DJ's) like
Alan Freed and the Big Bopper.
Elvis Presley
Bill Haley
Enviroment
In 1957, the U.S. Department of Agriculture
(USDA) asked Congress for $2.5 million to
eradicate an insect pest that stripped trees in
northeastern forests – the gypsy moth. The plan
was to spray up to three million acres with a
mixture of DDT and oil. Within a month after the
spraying started, residents on Long Island filed
suit in federal court charging that the USDA
planes were flying too low, were spraying too
heavily and during high winds, and that the DDT
was killing fish, birds, farm and garden crops.
Later, it was reported that milk from cows in the
area was banned from sale because of high
levels of DDT.
Gypsy Moth.
And ....
The ants had been migrating from Mexico up into
the South. There were conflicting reports about the
damage the ants were doing. Some studies said that
the pests didn't particularly bother farm workers and
that land values were not affected. But other farmers
– some of them with powerful political connections –
complained that the ants built nests that created
high mounds of dirt in the middle of fields and that
their bites stung. Some claimed – without much
evidence – that the ants attacked and even killed
calves, pigs and chickens. The supporters found a
case where one eight-year-old boy, who was
extremely allergic to all kinds of insect bites, died
from a fire ant bite.
Fire Ants
1960 TO 1970
ECONOMICS
POLITICS
SOCIETY & CULTURE
ENVIRONMENT
Overview
At the beginning of the 1960s, Americans
could be forgiven for thinking that they were
standing at the dawn of a golden age.
Superficially, at least, the years since the
end of World War II had been marked by
progress, prosperity, moderation and oldfashioned good sense, and there was no
reason to think that the 60s would be any
different.
Economy
Joseph Pratt noted: "It was a good time to be in
business in the United States, an era when American
efficiency and entrepreneurship were the wonder of
the world."During the 1960s the United States
experienced its longest uninterrupted period of
economic expansion in history. Whereas automobiles,
chemicals, and electrically powered consumer
durables were the leading sectors in the 1950s, they
were supplanted by aerospace, housing, and the
computer industry in the 1960s.
Politics
The '60s begin with a race for
President, and John F. Kennedy wins
by promising to keep the U.S. ahead
of the Soviet Union in the Space
Race and Cold War. America's new
President is young and charismatic;
the First Lady is sophisticated and
fashionable. The nation is on the
brink of a fresh political era, with the
old era of segregation on its way
out.Four years later, the campaign
focus moves from Cold War to active
John F. Kennedy
war. Candidate Barry Goldwater
supports bombing in Vietnam, and
loses the Presidential race by a
landslide.
Vietnam Bombings:
More Politics
1961 - Peace Corps created
by Pres. Kennedy
1963 - Martin Luther King
delivers his I have a dream
speech
1963 - Pres. John F.
Kennedy is assassinated in
Dallas, Texas
1963 - Lyndon Johnson
becomes President of the
United States.
The Civil Rights movement
made great changes in
society in the 1960's.
Martin Luther King
Society And Culture
The sixties were the age of youth, as
70 million children from the post-war
baby boom became teenagers and
young adults. The movement away
from the conservative fifties continued
Population:
and eventually resulted in
177,830,000
revolutionary ways of thinking and real
Life Expectancy:
change in the cultural fabric of
American life. No longer content to be Males 66.6 years,
Females
73.1
years
images of the generation ahead of
them, young people wanted change.
The changes affected education,
values, lifestyles, laws, and
entertainment. Many of the
revolutionary ideas which began in the
sixties are continuing to evolve today.
Environment
The contraceptive, or birth
control pill was introduced
in Australia in the 1960s. It
had a significant impact on
society, granting women
greater sexual freedom and
allowing them to control
when and if they had
children. The Pill also
sparked much moral
debate during the 1960s
about pre-marital sex and
promiscuity.
The End :
It was a big tickle
writing this totally
rad project. ; )