Pop Culture 1950's

In the 1950's, television became a hit in the media. Businesses loved it because almost everyone had a television set and was addicted to the T.V. Businesses could advertise on T.V. and try to get peoples attention. Critics did not like television because they believed it was a bad brain wash to the children of America. They thought it would affect the way children thought of stereotypes such as gender roles and minority. Rock & Roll music was not accepted by most adults and parents because they called it the "devil's music." Somehow the media brought it into mainstream television and it became more accepted.

What were some of the significant challenges president Truman faced after WWII?
 - Some challenges he faced was trying to get jobs for returning G.I. soldiers and fixing the rationing of produce nd other goods.

How did Truman try to help returning G.I's get jobs and was it effective?
 -Truman used a sort of "New Deal," ideal to try and help returning G.I's from the war. It wasn't effective because many people began unions and goods were becoming scarce. This upset the U.S. and its citizens causing many to defy Truman.

The American Teenager

Teenagers lives changed after WWII by the media and products introduced to them. Products like soda and pimple cream aimed at teenagers with money to spend. "White flight," was the act of millions of  middle class Americans moving to the suburbs after many colored people started moving into the city. This was sort of good for the society because back in the 50's, racism was still in act. Many Mexicans immigrated to the states during the 50's for agricultural work, and to escape the poor economic conditions of Mexico.

The Boy In The Striped Pajamas Analysis Questions

Bruno moved with his family to a new home out in the country. What Bruno's father didn't detail so much was why he moved out to the country side. It was closer to his work, but what he did was not specified to his family, the act of killing Jewish people in a concentration camp. He did not want to tell them because he did not want his wife or children to think wrong/get mad at him. Bruno was taught that Jewish people were evil. When Bruno fell off the swing and the old man helped him, this event was significant to the way Bruno's mother thought of Jews because it showed that they were not evil people. Bruno's father turned into a strict and militarized-like person because of what his job required him to do. Bruno became a more opposite-like person at the end of the story compared to his Dad. I think that most of Bruno's actions were wrong for him, but right in the eyes of our society. Being friends with a Jew in his time(Bruno being German), Bruno was a very loyal friend at the end of the story.

The End Of WW2

General MacArthur was a successful general during his battles in Japan. He won the battles in the islands of: Bataan, Leyte, & Iwo Jima. The G.I. Bill was beneficial to returning U.S. soldiers. It offered returning soldiers a free college education paid by the federal government. Mexicans were beginning to wear "zoot-suits" that showed rebellion toward their tradition. 11 sailors claimed they were attacked by Mexican Americans wearing Zoot-Suits, which caused Mexican Americans in L.A. to be treated unfairly.

WW2 In The Pacific

General Douglas MacArthur was told to leave the Phillipines by President Roosevelt. Although MacArthur was told to leave the Phillipines, he announced and promised that he would be back to liberate the Phillipines. During World War 2, the President had to make a decision: keep fighting the war and lose American lives or end it now with an atomic bomb. The President of the U.S. declared that he would use a deadly force on Japan if they did not cease in the war, causing the U.S. to drop 2 atomic bombs in Japan.
The Allies had a hard time facing Japan because they were handicapped due to the weather and under-manned. American submarines were useful and effective in the Pacific because they were capable of sinking Japanese supply and battleships.

WWII Across The Atlantic Ocean

Dwight D. Eisenhower was the supreme commander in Europe during WW2, and was a successful leader. Eisenhower and the Allies, attempted to remove Adolf Hitler from power in Europe. It was the main goal od "D-Day," and was a successful operation. George Patton was a successful leader, he liberated the French from German control. The Battle of the Bulge was a "tide changer," as the Germans pushed Americans back for a little while to try and demoralize the Americans, they failed to do so. The Germans plan to demoralize the Allies backfired by the Germans losing much more than they gained.

Coping with the War At home

The OPA is the Office of Price Administration which fights inflation of the economy by freezing prices of goods. The OSRD was the Office of Scientific Research & Development. They were scientists that were brought into the war to find new ways like new technology to defeat their enemy. Americans were rationed during the war on many everyday needed items such as gasoline, shoes, food, etc.. Today, we are lucky to not have been rationed during the war in Iraq and Afghanistan like WW2. In WW2 people were rationed on gasoline and food, todays society would freak out if that ever happened again.

U.S. Gets Ready to Fight

Phillip Randolph was an American Labor leader who organized a march on Washington. The WAAC was known as the Women Association Auxillary Corps. They were women who served in the war performing important tasks such as being nurses, pilots, electricians and so on, while men were sent out to fight in the war. Before the war started, African Americans were treateed poorly and unfairly. Although when the war progressed, African American did too.

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Hardships duing the Great Depression

Families would lose their car and house during the Great Depression. Adults would lose their job, so there was no sort of income to support their families. Parents could not provide their children with food, could not provide themselves with electricity, or whatever needs to be paid for to use in the house such as water. People would roam the streets in search of food in garbage cans eating left overs. Everybody was wild for food.

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Families would lose their car and house during the Great Depression. Families would lose their jobs, so there was no sort of income to support their household. They could not provide food, electricity for the house, or anything that needs to be paid for to be used like water. People would roam the streets searching in garbage cans eating leftovers. Everybody was wild for food.

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The Great Depression-Bam!

During the "Great Depression," 94% of Americans made less than $5,000 a year. That is a horrible salary/earning per year an you would not survive todays economy on your own unless you were living under someone elses roof. "Wall Street," was important to American business because it was successful and was prosperous to American Economy. Investors invested into stock(getting a share of a business) and can trade/sell stocks to make even more money. If the stock market crash did not cause the Great Depression, it would be: Tariffs, war debt, crisis in the farm sector, easy credit(farmers go into debt with credit), and unequal income. Todays society goes through what we call the Great Recession. It somewhat relates to the Great Depression because people have been losing jobs, prices on goods are still high, but, you can invest into stocks to make some money. There are numerous stocks you can invest to and become wealthy from.

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WWII (pt. 2)

Adolf Hitler lead the Nazi's in Germany during World War 2. Countries he invaded include: Austria, Czechoslaovakia, Poland, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Norway, France, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium, and the Soviet Union.
Winston Churchill believed the Munich Agreement was useless. From his perspective, it will lead to war anyways and he did not want to give in to appeasement to Hitler. Adolf Hitler used a tactic called "Blitzkreig", which is you can say its a "quick war". Blitzkreig is when the military uses brute and "godly" force to abuse their rival enemy, trying not to allow any opposing force and ending the war quickly; catching their enemy off-guard.

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WWII

Hitler hated the Treaty of Versailles because it hurt Germany's ego. Germany also had to pay off all war debts. Inflation in Germany was dreadful. Adolph Hitler was the dictator of Germany, other dictators in the war included: Joseph Stalin of Russia, Benito Mussolini of Italy, Hideki Tojo of Japan, and Francisco Franco of Spain. Germany, Italy, and Russia's dictators were known as the,"Facsist Party." Italy and Germany were anti-communist, while Russia was a communist state. While on the other side of the world, there was War and tragedies going on, the U.S. did NOT want to get involved. They would rather be in a state of isolationism. On the other hand, Roosevelt wanted to get involved in this war.

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WW2 Keyterms

Allies - Allies of the United states that included england and the Soviet Union.

Axis - Germany's allies that included Japan and Italy

Defense spending - Amount of money the government spends on the military

Unemployment rate - % of people unemployed

Federal outlay - Amount of money the federal government uses to buy stuff

Rattlesnakes of the Atlantic - German U-Boats

German U-Boats - German Submarines

Isolationalists - Policy of, "Mind your own business"

Appease - To give into demands

Land Lease Act - Law that allowed POTUS to sell weapons to our allies/friends.

Office of Price Administration - Prevention of war time inflation

Inflation - When prices of goods increase while income stays the same

Franklin D. Roosevelt - 32nd U.S. President
President Harry S. Truman - 29th U.S. President
Phillip Randolph - a Civil Rights Leader
Gen Patton - George S. Patton, commander of the 3rd U.S. Army
Gen Macarthur - A general in WW2 General Douglas Macarthur
Gen Eisenhower - 34th President of the U.S.
Adolf Hitler - Leader of Germany
Benito Mussolini - Dictator of Italy
Joseph Stalin - Leader of Russia
Winston Churchill - Prime minister of U.K.

Battle of the Bulge - Last stand for Germany in the War

D-Day - invasion of Normandy, France June 6th, 1944

Auschwitz - Nazi Camp

Atomic Bomb - Nuclear bomb dropped on Japan to end the war

Interment - Camps on Westcoast to detain Japanese-Americans

Income tax - % of tax paid on personal income

Wage and Price Controls - Measures taken by the government under income policy

War Bonds - Debt Securities issued by the government for financing in military ops in the war

WAACs - Members of the Womens Army Auxillary Corps

WW2 Battle of the Pacific - a series of battles in WW2 in the Pacific

GI Bill of Rights - Bill passed for WW2 veterans that provided many benefits

Zoot-Suit Riots - A series of riots that broke out in central L.A. between Marines and white sailors.

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"The Help" and the Struggle for African American Equality

         In school today, we are all learning more and more about racism and inequality in the past, and specs of it in the present. In the movie,"The Help," I witnessed incidents of unfair treatment towards colored people.
       One incident that occurred was the wages colored maids would make in a month, that couldn't support their families. Maid owners could control wages as well, which forced maids to take the oppression from their employers. Maid owners would treat their maids like dogs, and in the movie "The Help" the maids were more motherly-role to the children than their genetic blood-Mothers. Maids would have to deal with listening to racist and unfair talks when there was gatherings at a white family's house.
       Another incident I witnessed from "The Help," was that the white women would be disgusted when the colored maids would use their restrooms. The white people would spread false rumors such as,"black people carried diseases," so they could not use their restrooms. One of the women tried passing a house requirement that required any homes with a maid to have a separate bathroom built for the maids. In contrast, that same person that passed the law was embarrassed later on in the movie and put in the newspaper.
      Something that really made me feel bad about was the kids of the African American maids and the small hope for living a better life. Earlier in the beginning of the movie, one of the maids is interviewed and one of the questions went like this,"Do you have any other dreams besides being a maid?" It left the made speechless. The made said she also knew that she would be a maid when she grew up, it rules out everything else she should be able to do. She had no other intentions besides being a maid, restricting the rights given to us: Life, liberty, freedom. She couldn't dream being anything else, this type of thinking passes on to the children which made me feel bad for them.
      In the movie,"The Help," a group of maids were interviewed to tell stories of oppression and unfair treatment they deal with from their employers. They revealed their everyday struggle and eventually their stories were published into a book for the world to get a taste of what was happening in Jackson, Mississippi. 

TGD - How TND Affected People Of Color

Pedro Gonzalez became a Mexican-American Hero by exposing racial discrimination through his radio station as a Disc Jockey. For speaking out against discrimination, he was punished by the government and even deported. Frances Perkins was the 1st female "Cabinet Member". She became a hero for women.
The "Black Cabinet" was assembled by a group of influential African-Americans that advised FDR on racial issues. There leader was Mary McLeod Bethune

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Programs Of The New Deal

1.) What was the major difference between Hoover and Roosevelt?
   Roosevelt was a confident man, while Hoover Long was a boaster.

2.) Which New Deal Program was the most responsible for creating the most jobs now?
   The Works Progress Administration was responsible for creating new jobs for about 8 million people. They spent $11 billion to create these new jobs.

3.) What impact did the Social Security Act have on Americans?
   The S.S.A., helped Americans such as retirees, unemployed compensation, and aid to the disabled. This act began in 1935 and is still active.

4.) What did Huey Long have against FDR?
   Long felt that the New Deal was inadequate.

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FDR The New Deal

1.) Who was FDR?

       Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the 32nd President of the United States, the only President with a dissability called Polio. FDR was a President with what we can call, "good vibes". He had a friendly character with a can-do attitude, and a confidential personality.

2.)Who were FDR's carefully picked advisers and why were they important to the President?
       FDR's advisers who he carefully picked were called "Brain Trusts", that were composed of journalists, lawyers, and professors. 

3.) What was the New Deal?
       The New Deal was a term for the alleviation for the Great Depression(ideas to deal with the Great Depression).

4.)What 3 goals did the New Deal attempt to adress?
      3 ideas that the New Deal attempted to adress was: helping the needy, economic recovery, and financial reform. Many people needed help financially, as well as banks. The New Deal tried to help people with new jobs, and banks that were going bankrupt. Banks tried making new policies to help reform themselves.

5.) What was the first action FDR took as President?
      The first action FDR took as President was to close all banks. Banks that were financially "healthy" were able to re-open. There was an opposite effect for banks with "unhealthy" financial problems.

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The U.S. after WWI pt.2

1. What was the Quota System?
  Limiting immigrants into America. England was not affected. Only granted 150,000 immigrants a year.

2. How was the Quota System discrimintory? If yes, to whom?
  It was discriminitory to eastern and southern Europe.

3. How was Mexico affected by the Quota System?
  Did not apply because Mexico was apart of the western hemisphere.

4. How was Japan affected?
  Japan was prohibited from migrating into the U.S.

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Prohibition of Alchohal

1.) What was Prohibition?
   Prohibition was the ban of alchohal in the U.S.

2.) What groups were responsible for the idea of prohibition?
   Reformers, the Church affiliated Anti-Saloon League, the rural south and west.

3.) What were there reasons?
   Reformers believed drinking led to increased crime, family abuse, accidents on the job, and other social issues. The church told the people that it was sinful to drink.

4.) How did people get illiegal alchohal?
   People got alchohal illiegally by "Bootleggers". They would smuggle alchohal and sell it off. Some trucks would be loaded with alchohal and illiegal stills.

5.) In your opinion, was prohibition a good or bad idea? Why?
   I believe prohibition was a bad thing, because the people who are always drinking and people who love to drink, have their privelage to consume alchohal taken away from them. After prohibition, crime grew instead of decreasing. Its like giving candy to a baby, and then taking it away.

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Life Changes in the 1920's

1.) What are some of the beliefs held by fundamentalists?
  They did not believe science that much, all important knowledge can be found in the bible. The bible holds all truth withing every little detail. They also believed the bible was inspired by God.

2.) The Scopes Trial challenged what law?
  Tennessee passed a law in which it was illiegal to teach about evolution. A biology teacher by the name of John T. Scopes challenged that law.

3.)The "double standard" created 2 different behavior rules for who?
  The "double standard" set behavior rules for mainly women. Women had stricter rules about sexuality.

4.)Why did Charles Lingbergh become famous? Louis Armstrong?
   Charles Lindbergh was the first person to ever fly across the Atlantic nonstop and solo. Louis Armstrong joined a band called the Creole Jazz Band, eventually Armstrong's talent rocked the jazz world and became famous.

5.) What was the Harlem Renaissance?
   The Harlem Renaissance was a literary and artistic movement celebrating African American culture.

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New Technology & The 1920's

How did the automobile affect America?
-When the automobile was introduced to America, cities expanded. Housing designs changed, there were now driveways and garage ports for cars. Motels were created for highway stops/rests. Mechanic shop began to bloom to maintain the first vehicles of America

What's "Urban Sprawl" and what caused it?
-Urban sprawl is the effect of mobility; Cities expand because there is mobility. New routes were created to travel on.

What was the first use of airplanes Not during war?
-The use for airplanes NOT during war was for U.S. postal services; delivering mail.

Predict what will happen to the economy.
-I predict that the economy will start to inflate as well as smog. These cars produce smog and will need to improve to keep smog levels down.

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Recreation "The US."

When and why did Americans begin to Recreate?
Americans began recreating near the mark of the 19th century. They did so to get away from work and to have some fun during their leisure time.

Were the reasons Americans began to recreate the same or different compared to today?
Yes, people now adays travel around the world to take vacations from work and relax themselves. There are "rec-centers" which are like sports parks. Theres amusement parks and so on to enjoy on you leisure time.

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Post-WWI

1.)Describe the feelings of many Americans had after WW 1.
  Americans felt tired and exhausted from World War 1. Farmers and factory workers suffered from it as well.

2.) What were some reactions by Americans to their post-WW1 feelings?
Americans became fearful of outsiders(Japan,Mexico,ect..) and many came to believe nativism and isolationism

3.) What did the Palmer raids accomplish? Why did they have them?
  Palmer performed raids to find anti-governists, known as political radicals. Palmer did not succeed and failed.

4.) What did the KKK fear? Did their membership grow in the 1920's?
  They feared communism and other races taking over. They believed in 100% Americanism.

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REF2

12.) "A bill that originates from the people rather than legislators is known as.."
My answer: An amendment
Correct answer: A refenderum

Reason: I answered this question wrong because I did not have the knowledge to answer it correctly.

15.)"The law that required truthful labels was the.."
My answer: Meat Inspection Act
Correct answer: Pure Food and Drug Act

Reason: I answered this question wrong because I did not have the knowledge to answer it correctly.

17.) "In total, ___ states had full woman suffrage before 1920."
My answer: 30
Correct answer: 15

I got this question wrong because I did not carefully read the question and did not understand what the question wanted me to do.

21.) "The last states to grant women full suffrage before 1920 were.."
My answer: North Dakota, Nebraska, and Texas
Correct answer: Oklahoma South Dakota, and Michigan

I got this question wrong because I did not understand what the question was asking me, the map had me overthink the question and answer plenty of times.

As a test taker, I believe that with more studying I can get higher test scores. I recieved a 19/23 on this exam. If I studied I think I could have gotten a 20 or higher. I should study more and try to comprehend questions better because I over-thought on some questions.

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Treatment of Peoples of Color

How did Mexicans earn a living in the late 1800's and where did they do this work?

Mexicans in the late 1800's were hired by railroad companies to construct their railroads. The Mexican people that worked on the railroads were used to the regions hot and dry climate. They did this type of work in the southwest in desert areas.

Describe African-American life in the 1900's.

African Americans were poorly treated in the south, as a result, African Americans moved to northern cities for a better life hoping for social equality and better working conditions. African-American's who did move to northern cities found out that the northern cities were not so different from the south. They were forced to segregate from the white neighborhoods, meaning they would live in different areas from the white's. Blacks also faced unfair working conditions, white's had better opportunities over the African American's with jobs in the 1900's. Overall the African Americans were treated poorly and were socially discriminated(faced with racism).




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