Topic 10 Study Concept

McCarthyism Impact on Society:

• House committee on Un-American activities.
• Hollywood producers, directors and everyone involved with the movie that has to do with communist propaganda were charged being a communist.
• Hunts the "Hollywood Ten" which is what they call the people who work on these movie sets.

"Witch Hunt":

• Communist hunt
• Led by Joseph McCarthy
• Communist especially in Hollywood (producing films with communist propaganda)
• Hollywood producers, writers, directors, etc. put in jail and lost their jobs over it.

Space Race:

• Battle between the Soviet Union & the United States 
• 1957
• When Sputnik was launched, United States poured out money to education.
• 1969- Man on the Moon- Apollo 11

Cold War mind set for U.S gov & public:

• U.S. was afraid over being defeated
• U.S. was afraid of communism. 
• Soviet Union had the best technology over the U.S.

Relationship of suburbs, cars & roads:

• Suburbs were far from the city (working areas)
• Some got places near the city or in the city to be close
• Those who were in suburbs used their cars to get to work because it was too far to walk
• Interstate Highway act - 32 billion dollars to pass this act, 4,000 new miles of Roadway
• Car benefits: McDonald's - drive through. DisneyLand - travel/with no cars disneyland wouldn't be able to happen

Baby Boom:

• 1946-1960
• In 1955, one baby was born every 7 seconds
• it was a cause of the depression, "tough times"
• Cause: Removal of social & economic - restraints that kept people from having families
• Consumer BOOM: Increase in spending and buying
• Typical family, like on TV back then, Father goes to work, mother stays at home, and they have two kids which do homework right away when they get home, also obeyed

Urban-Suburban Pattern:

• SUBURBIA
• Levittown: 8,000 dollars to buy a house
• 60$ a month

                                            Business District
                                Inner City - Low income families
                                                       ↓
                                                  Suburbs
                                       Middle income families
                                                       ↓
                                                  Suburbs
                                          High income families
GI Bill:

• After WWII
• You enlist in the military & they will pay for your college
• Enlist for four years, go to college for four years
• Soliders received loans
• A lot of benefits for enlisting

Expansion of Middle Class (why were things affordable):

• Credit card - 1945 - 17 million
• 1960 - 60 million
• Baby Boom
• Houses were cheap for families in Suburbs