Politics+and+Popular+Culture

=1950's: Politics and Popular Culture= //back to 1950's main page//


 * ===Lonestar College American Cultural History=== || []

Communism, Cold War and McCarthy 1952 - INA (Immigration and Nationality Act) ||
 * media type="youtube" key="va5Btg4kkUE?rel=0" height="180" width="218" || ===President Eisenhower wins the elections in 1952 and 1956 and serves as president from 1953-1961.===

[|Eisenhower National Historic Site]

[|1957 Inaugural Address]

[|PBS Presidential Series: Eisenhower] ||
 * media type="youtube" key="dCjqgRmgfeQ?rel=0" height="175" width="208" |||| ===Television and Mass Marketing===

The 50's have been called the "Golden Age" of television. Did you know the TV remote was invented in 1957? TVs were black and white until 1954.

http://www.fcc.gov/omd/history/tv/1930-1959.html ||
 * media type="youtube" key="Jej5d2kYjuQ?rel=0" height="156" width="192" || ===Beat Lit and Rock-n-Roll===

[|Literature and Culture of the American 1950's]

[|The Beat Generation]

Science Fiction became popular in the 1950's

This was a decade of rock-n-roll and teenage dances http://socialdance.stanford.edu/syllabi/teen_dances.htm || [|Interstate System]
 * [[image:p96su49a.jpg width="233" height="170" align="left"]] || ===1956 Federal-Aid Highway Act===

1955 - Dr. Jonas Salk discovers the Polio Vaccine http://www.brown.edu/Courses/Bio_160/Projects1999/polio/vac.html

Cross-continental air travel and commercial jets http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Commercial_Aviation/Jet_Era/Tran7.htm

Mainframe Computers: http://homepage.cs.uri.edu/faculty/wolfe/book/Readings/Reading03.htm ||
 * media type="youtube" key="Jqe4W08124M?rel=0" height="197" width="237" || ===Suburbanization===

The American dream is a little house with a white picket fence and all the latest appliances money can buy.

[|Documents of an ideal American suburb] ||
 * [[image:cover00.gif width="123" height="196"]] || ===Women in the 1950s: Wives, Prozac, MRS degrees and the Pill===

PBS Site http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/pill/peopleevents/p_mrs.html

History of the Birth Control Pill http://www-scf.usc.edu/~nicoleg/history.htm

American Women Through Time http://frank.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women/time/wh-50s.html

Simone de Beauvoir - //The Second Sex// published in English i 1953 http://www.cddc.vt.edu/marxists/reference/subject/ethics/de-beauvoir/2nd-sex/index.htm ||
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Alaska becomes the 49th state on January 3, 1959
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~cap/bartlett/49state.html ||
 * [[image:sthod.gif width="282" height="337"]] || ===Hawaii becomes the 50th state on August 21, 1959===

http://www2.fiu.edu/~harveyb/hawaiianstatehood1.html ||