Ideal lifestyle: “Keeping up with the Jones’” Rock & Roll Music Conformity
Beat Generation – wrote about negatives of US Society White Flight
Millions move the suburbs Created areas of poverty in Inner Cities
Civil Rights 1954
– Brown v. Board of Education
Ruled that the current segregation of schools was separate but NOT equal Called for integration of all schools
Thurgood Marshall – Argued case against segregation
Civil Rights Montgomery
Began when Rosa Parks wouldn’t give up her seat on the bus
Civil
Bus Boycott – 1955 - 1956
Rights Act 1957
Trying to increase African American voting in the South Gave federal courts power to register voters
Civil Rights 1957
– Little Rock High School
Central High school moves to integration Governor Orval Faubus uses National guard to keep them out Eisenhower takes over National guard and uses them to integrate the schools
Dealing with Communism
Continued the idea of containment Mass retaliation – if Soviets attack we hit back with everything we have Soviet Union responds to NATO with the Warsaw Pact
Space Race Begins 4, 1957 – Soviet Union launched Sputnik – first artificial satellite US responded by forming NASA October
Mercury 7 Selected
Increased
emphasis on Math and Science in U.S. schools
Nationalism and the U.S. Motto “E
Latin phrase meaning “Of many, one” Unofficial motto of the U.S. since 1795
“In
Pluribus Unum”
God We Trust”
In 1956, Congress officially adopts as national motto (replaces E Pluribus Unum) Enacted in opposition to Communism and its atheistic tendencies
Both
on national currency
Interstate highway system designed
to mobilize the military at a moments notice Over pass height determined by the height of a missile on the bed of a truck.
