Society and culture 1941 - 1975

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  • Society and Culture in the USA 1941 - 1975
    • Divisions
      • Ethnicity
        • 1940s
          • Start of WW2 huge amount of discrimination
            • Segregated units, barred from trade unions
            • Caused AAs to think about their position is society due to fascism
          • Race riots: Battle of Bamber Bridge 1943
        • 1950s
          • Civil rights movement took off
        • 1960s
          • Saw the peak and fall of the civil rights movement
            • Transformed into black power
        • Vietnam
          • Start of the war most supported however faced opposition
          • As the war went on opposition grew
          • Youth vs Old Public vs Govt
      • Gender
        • Women's liberation a key part of the youth culture
      • Age
        • 1960s
          • Youth culture exploded
            • Women's liberation a key part of the youth culture
          • The age of youth culture was the age of protest
            • Vietnam
              • Start of the war most supported however faced opposition
              • As the war went on opposition grew
              • Youth vs Old Public vs Govt
      • Ideologies
        • McCarthyism 1950s - 1954 but influenced politics in the 1960s
        • The red scare: 1940s
          • Sympathy for the USSR developed during WW2
            • By 1945 the American Communist Party had 80,000 members
          • Executive order 9385 checked the loyalties of federal government employees
          • HUAC began investigations
    • Developments
      • Mass media
        • Development of TV meant most people had one, became a key method of communication
          • Outlet for new values and social conformity (McCarthyism)
        • Cinema and radio still important but audiences dropped during the 1960s with TV
        • Large newspaper readership
        • Ethnicity
          • 1940s
            • Start of WW2 huge amount of discrimination
              • Segregated units, barred from trade unions
              • Caused AAs to think about their position is society due to fascism
            • Race riots: Battle of Bamber Bridge 1943
          • 1950s
            • Civil rights movement took off
          • 1960s
            • Saw the peak and fall of the civil rights movement
              • Transformed into black power
      • Role of Women
        • 1940s/WW2
          • Some liberation during the war; had to serve in the home front
        • 1950s; faced a swing back to conservatism
        • 1960s
          • Brought women's issues to the forefront
          • Women had grown up in the age of affluence, had spending power and educational power
      • Demographic change
        • Population kept on increasing (rose by 80 million 1945-75)
        • Immigrants arrived in large numbers
          • Many came into the South and West from Mexico
      • Changes in urbanisation
        • Cities expanded due to cars and the suburbs
        • Inner city districts became inhabited by poorer people as whites moved to the suburbs

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