American History- Key Topic 1-part 2

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What was the Eisenhower years catogarised by? what did stanley write?
An age of conformity, Stanley wrote in 1956- that people in the suburbs “buys the right car, keeps his lawn like his neighbours, eats crunchy cereal and votes Republican”
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What was the Organization man?
wrote by William Whyte and sold two million copies as he argued that Americans had subordinated themselves with the interests of big organisations, Removing the individuality that made America great
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what was the 1952 supreme court ruling?
granted freedom of expression in films
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what was baby doll, Island in the sun, defiant ones?
Baby doll-1956 (sexually explicit), Island in the sun-1957 (Interracial relationship), Defiant ones-1958 (Black and white chained to each other, dependent on one another to survive)
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What was Immitation of life and south pacific?
Immitation of life-1959 (Real hero is the black women who looked after the white actresses children and her own ungrateful children), South Pacific-1958 (showed two interacial couples....it caused a race riot in long island)
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what was All that heaven allows and blue demin?
Blue Denim 1959 (a film adaptation where she doesnt even mention the word abortion like it did in the play), All that heaven allows (1955) an upper class women marries a young bohemian gardener, rebelling- but wive is most important role
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What was Blackboard Jungle and in crime of passion?
In crime of passion 1957 ( a women sleeps with her husbands superior to try and get him a promotion, he refuses so she kills him and her husband hands her in to the police), Blackboard Jungle 55-bad behaviour in the classroom teacher regains control
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How much was spent advertising in 1950 and 1960?
1950= $5.7 billion spent on advertising 1960= $11.9 billion
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What was Tv in 1960?
90% of homes had TV and it was the favourite leisure activity of 50% of Americans
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What was the TV episode "Betty Girl Engineer"
1958 (Young women wants to become an engineer but graduate supervisor asks her father “What man would want to come home to see a nice pretty girl who has been working in the dust and heat” Betty agrees so turns her attention towards a date
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What was the Tv show Honeymooners?
1955 (wife decides she wants a job as her husband is unemployed and he says “No wife of mine is going to work ive got my pride men are the workers of my family)
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What was the Nat Cole Show?
1956-57 (the show was dropped as cole looked weird with white makeup, he said “Madison Avenue is afraid of the dark”)
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What was the non-conformist TV?
Open Mind- 1956-present (allowed MLK to represent his ideas about “The New *****”), Footage of Little rock 1957 helped promote social change
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what was the Beats?
They rejected consumerism, conformity and exchanged it for drugs, love and defiance. Members included Allen Ginsburg (Gained Fame in 1956 after publishing “Howl” which dealt with issues of Homosexuality, drugs and non-conformity)
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What were the beatniks?
superficial version of the beats developed in coleges in 1958, Keauroc thought they were copycats, Beatnik is from the name “Sputnik” (Un American), they had black urban vocabulary, bare feet, drugs, Zen Budhism, Sex, Tight Jeans
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What was the evidence of juvenile delinquency?
Gangs ranging from 10-250, in 1955 13 states had laws against comic books, One gang member said he joined friends in destroying a restaurant as he was threatened to be kicked out of town
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What was the evidence of the lack of juvenile delinquency?
most educators consider this “The silent generation” as statistics show there was no increase in Juvenile Delinquency, it was mostly just drive in movies, fast food and malls
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What was rock 'n' roll?
Rock 'n' roll combined blues and country, It was called Rock 'n' roll due to its sexual lyrics, It added to teens identity, Teens had more money so they could afford to buy records
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What did the older generation think of Rock 'n' roll music?
Concerts were compared to Hitler Rallies, They feared the sexual longing in the lyrics, They feared black culture contaminating their children, White Citizens Council believed this was a way that white men could be driven to the same level "******"
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Who was Elvis preseley?
he was a white man with a “***** sound”, he was named “Elvis the Pelvis” and on the Ed Sullivan show he had to be shot from the waist up
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