Contexts of 'A Streetcar Named Desire'
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- Post WW2
- soldiers return home
- Demobili-sation: standing down of armed forces from a 'combat ready' status
- McCarthy years
- McCarthyism
- 1950's: reference to McCarthy's practices -applied to similar anti-communist activities
- McCarthyism
- today the term is used generally in reference to: reckless, unsubstantiated accusations and public attacks on the character or patriotism of political opponents
- McCarthy years
- 1950's: reference to McCarthy's practices -applied to similar anti-communist activities
- today the term is used generally in reference to: reckless, unsubstantiated accusations and public attacks on the character or patriotism of political opponents
- Post WW2
- soldiers return home
- Demobili-sation: standing down of armed forces from a 'combat ready' status
- raised paranoia in the US through claims of communists and soviet spies being in the US and 'soviet sympathisers' being in the US federal govenment
- Demagogue: a political leader in a democracy who appeals to the emotions, fears, prejudices and ignorance of lower socio-economic classes to gain power and promote political motives
- Joseph McCarthy: senator (leader of US congress and house committee), republican, most visible public face of the cold war period
- raised paranoia in the US through claims of communists and soviet spies being in the US and 'soviet sympathisers' being in the US federal govenment
- Demagogue: a political leader in a democracy who appeals to the emotions, fears, prejudices and ignorance of lower socio-economic classes to gain power and promote political motives
- Joseph McCarthy: senator (leader of US congress and house committee), republican, most visible public face of the cold war period
- The soviet's 'radical ideology' of communism was deemed frightening
- atmosphere of paranoia from the increasing successes of the soviet union
- Joseph McCarthy: senator (leader of US congress and house committee), republican, most visible public face of the cold war period
- Demagogue: a political leader in a democracy who appeals to the emotions, fears, prejudices and ignorance of lower socio-economic classes to gain power and promote political motives
- raised paranoia in the US through claims of communists and soviet spies being in the US and 'soviet sympathisers' being in the US federal govenment
- The soviet's 'radical ideology' of communism was deemed frightening
- atmosphere of paranoia from the increasing successes of the soviet union
- Joseph McCarthy: senator (leader of US congress and house committee), republican, most visible public face of the cold war period
- Demagogue: a political leader in a democracy who appeals to the emotions, fears, prejudices and ignorance of lower socio-economic classes to gain power and promote political motives
- 'the chold war'
- soldiers return home
- today the term is used generally in reference to: reckless, unsubstantiated accusations and public attacks on the character or patriotism of political opponents
- Contexts of 'A Streetcar Named Desire' American Society 1947
- Immigration
- New policies:
- 1946: immigration from: India, Philippines and China made legal
- 1948: over 200,000 refugees legally allowed to settle in the US if displaced during WW2
- New policies:
- Industrial-isation, Consumerism and Economy
- Scientific advances e.g. nuclear bomb
- Baby Boom
- recovering economy from expenses used in war
- rising unemployment
- Economy slowly grew but people's income decreased/stayed low
- Consumerism boomed in 1947 after brief 1946 recession
- Immigration
- 1950's: reference to McCarthy's practices -applied to similar anti-communist activities
- McCarthy years
- Contexts of 'A Streetcar Named Desire' American Society 1947
- Immigration
- New policies:
- 1946: immigration from: India, Philippines and China made legal
- 1948: over 200,000 refugees legally allowed to settle in the US if displaced during WW2
- New policies:
- Industrial-isation, Consumerism and Economy
- Scientific advances e.g. nuclear bomb
- Baby Boom
- recovering economy from expenses used in war
- rising unemployment
- Economy slowly grew but people's income decreased/stayed low
- Consumerism boomed in 1947 after brief 1946 recession
- Immigration
- 'the chold war'
- soldiers return home
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