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Postwar United States

Postwar United States . 1945 to early 1970’s. Post War United States. Your understanding of present-day American society would be deficient without grappling with the remarkable changes in American society, the American economy, and American culture in the 1950’s and 1960’s.

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Postwar United States

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  1. Postwar United States 1945 to early 1970’s

  2. Post War United States Your understanding of present-day American society would be deficient without grappling with the remarkable changes in American society, the American economy, and American culture in the 1950’s and 1960’s

  3. You will need to understand how the postwar economic boom: • Mightily affected by the transforming hand of science • Produced epic changes in American education • Consumer culture • Suburbanization • The return to domesticity for women • The character of corporate life • The sexual and cultural mores- both of which involved startling changes in dress, speech, music, film and television

  4. Post War United States In this postwar period of liberal activism, leaders sought to expand the role of the state to extend civil liberties and promote economic opportunity. The advent of the civil rights and women’s movements thus became part of the third reform impulse in American history The Cold War set the framework for global politics for 45 years after the end of World War II

  5. Post War United States Consider the Soviet Union’s goals following World War II. Its catastrophic losses in the war and fear of rapid German recovery were factors in Soviet demands for a sphere of influence on its western borders, achieved through the establishment of governments under Soviet military and political control

  6. Post War United States • The American policy of containment was successfully conducted in Europe: the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, the Berlin airlift, NATO, and the maintenance of U.S. Military forces in Europe under what was called the nuclear “balance of terror”

  7. Post War United States The U.S. government’s strategy of containment in Asia confronted very different circumstances and would involve the United States in the bloody, costly wars of Korea and Vietnam.

  8. Post War United States The Vietnam war demonstrated: * The power of American public opinion in reversing foreign policy * It tested democracy to its limits * It left scars on American society that have not yet been erased * It made many Americans deeply skeptical about future military or even peacekeeping interventions.

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