World War II: Legacies

• Civilian Deaths
• Racism
• Domestic Politics = War
• Urban Bombing
• Total War

Cold War

• Imperial Superpowers
• Nuclear War
• Proxy Wars (Korea)
• Conventional Bombing

The Soviet Union

• Self-defense or..
  • World Revolution

The United States

• Containment or...
  • Moral Crusade

Global Balance of Power

• Korea 1950-1953
  • 31,000 US Dead
  • Containment?
• Cuba
  • Missile Crisis 1962
  • Assassination of John F. Kennedy, 1963
• Vietnam 1963-1974
  • 50,000 U.S. dead
  • 2 million + Vietnamese dead

Anti-communist Allies/CIA

• Congo (Zaire)
  • Assassination of head of state 1961
• Indonesia
  • 500,000 dead 1965
• Chile
  • Overthrow of democratic government 1973
  • Death squads

Middle East

• State of Israel 1947
• Wars with Arab nations
• Soviet influence
• Oil

Prosperity: the West

Marshall Plan....U.S. Aid

European integration

• Coal andSteel Union
• Common Market 1957
• Germany,France,Italy+3
• Great Britain?
• Charles DeGaulle

European Community 1967

1973 +Great Britain

• Denmark, Ireland

Prosperity 1945-1970

• Stable Money
• Government Growth
• Welfare State
• Strong Unions
• Demand Management
• Keynes

Consumer Capitalism

• Working Class
• Individualism
• Fragmentation vs Solidarity
  • unions
  • voluntary organizations
  • churches
• Race & Immigration: Capitalist Labor Markets
  • African-Americans
  • Germany: Turks
  • France: Algerians
  • Great Britain: West Indians

Science and Technology

Electronics

• The Transistor 1947
• Bell Labs
• William Shockley

• Integrated Circuit/Silicon Chip 1958/1961
  • Jack Kilby
  • Robert Noyce
  • "Silicon Valley"
  •  

Genetic Engineering

• James D. Watson and Francis Crick
• The Eagle, Cambridge
• Rosalind Franklin

The Double Helix 1953

Gender

• Labor Markets
• Housework/Childcare
• contraception "the pill"
• New Feminism
• Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique, 1963
  • The Unhappy Housewife
  • "The Personal is Political"
  • Childcare

Higher Education

• Youth Culture
• The Sixties
  • Individualism
• Electronic Media
  • music
  • sports

Swinging London

• Youth Culture
• Fashion
  • Mary Quant
  • Carnaby Street
  • Mini-Skirt
• Music
  • The Beatles
  • Working Class
  • Hair
  • Drugs

 Materialism/Consumerism

Commercial Sex

• Hugh Hefner
• Beate Uhse

• The Vietnam War
  • 1970 at Iowa
• Human Rights