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
- Start of WW2 huge amount of discrimination
- 1950s
- Civil rights movement took off
- 1960s
- Saw the peak and fall of the civil rights movement
- Transformed into black power
- Saw the peak and fall of the civil rights movement
- Vietnam
- Start of the war most supported however faced opposition
- As the war went on opposition grew
- Youth vs Old Public vs Govt
- 1940s
- 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
- Vietnam
- Youth culture exploded
- 1960s
- 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
- Sympathy for the USSR developed during WW2
- Ethnicity
- 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
- Start of WW2 huge amount of discrimination
- 1950s
- Civil rights movement took off
- 1960s
- Saw the peak and fall of the civil rights movement
- Transformed into black power
- Saw the peak and fall of the civil rights movement
- 1940s
- Development of TV meant most people had one, became a key method of communication
- 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
- 1940s/WW2
- 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
- Mass media
- Divisions
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