PPT-1950s Culture Suburbs After WWII, returning vets faced a severe housing shortage

In response to the crisis developers used assemblyline methods to massproduce houses Developer William Levitt bragged that his company could build a home in 16 minutes for 7000 Suburbs were born. Conformity and Rebellion. Anticommunism before WWII. Fears of “premature anti-Fascists” such as Dorothy Parker, . Dashiell. Hammett, etc. before WWII. Support for republican Spain during the 1937 Spanish Civil War. Unit 9.4. Post WWII. Although the title of this is “The Fifties”, it is not just the 1950s. Post WWII: 1945 to 1963. Why 1963 as a stopping point?. Baby Boom. Why an increase in the number of children born in this time period?. “The Nation Prospers”. Baby Boom. It is a significant increase in the number of babies born . It took place in the years following World War II. As people were better off after the war, more got married and started families. http://. www.nydailynews.com. /new-york/new-york-city-1960s-gallery-1.1038782?pmSlide=1.1038762. What is the . Golden Age of Capitalism. ?. Characteristics. Economic Expansion. Stable Prices. Low Unemployment. Bob . Colenutt. and Martin Field, The University of . Northampton. Presentation to CRESC conference, SOAS London, . September 2013. Building vulnerable suburbs on the edge of the South-East. For much of the period since 1945 (and in accelerated form after 1979) it has been taken for granted that home ownership has been the route to security – delivering invulnerability (or at least reducing invulnerability) through bricks and mortar. . Veterans Boot . Camp. 3 . - . Westchester County, NY –. 100 Day Review . (2. nd. 100 day cycle). Monday, March 31, . 2014 (updated 4/1/2014).  .  .  . . 0. Our Current 100 Day Goal. Current 100-Day Goal. Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY. THE 1950s:. “Anxiety, Alienation, and . Social Unrest” . ??. “Conservatism, Complacency, and Contentment”. OR. 1. A. . Baby Boom. It seems to me that every other young housewife I see is pregnant.. The end of WWII led to an era of wealth & spending in the 1950s:. The war stimulated the economy & ended the Great Depression. High wages, service pay for soldiers, & war bond investments gave Americans money to spend. DO NOW: Sign onto the . laptop from last week. The rise of suburbs. The Imperfect Rise of the American Suburbs. In 1947, entrepreneur Abraham Levitt and his two sons, William and Alfred, broke ground on a planned community located in Nassau County, Long Island. Within a few years, the . How does social/historical/cultural context inform the . values. , . choices. and . limitations. of characters in . All About Eve. ?. The 1950s. Conservatism. , . complacency. , and . contentment. OR. Pojer. Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY. THE 1950s:. “Anxiety, Alienation, and . Social Unrest” . ??. “Conservatism, Complacency, and Contentment”. OR. Television. . 1946 . . 7,000 TV sets in the U. S.. Social Unrest” . ??. “Conservatism, Complacency, and Contentment”. OR. 1. A. . Baby Boom. It seems to me that every other young housewife I see is pregnant.. . -- British visitor to America, 1958. Warm-Up Question. :. Explain the Truman Doctrine. Explain the Marshall Plan. What. . was. . the. . purpose. . of. . NATO?. President Eisenhower’s Modern Republicanism. Eisenhower Video. . Eisenhower’s Modern Republicanism. Unit IV: Decades of Change. 1950s. (Ch. 19; 41-42). Why are we here this week?. Students will explore Unit IV: Decades of Change through a series of video clips, songs, as well as the Enduring Understanding notes, etc..