The Cold War

2017-11-15

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Readings: - For Tomorrow: Just Birmingham Jail.

  • For Monday: Also Port Huron Statement.

Memorial Papers, tips:

  1. Controversial does not mean "offensive" or "provocative." Just not boring; it needs to intervene in a conversation in a useful way.
  2. Put yourself in the shoes of the people looking at it
  3. Be fully creative in form. A memorial is not just a statue.
  4. You can place your statue in the past if you really want to.

Americans move from City to Suburb

Distribution of the Population, 1930-1970

Year Central Cities Suburbs Rural Areas and Small Towns
1930 31.8% 18.0% 50.2%
1940 31.6% 19.5% 48.9%
1950 32.3% 23.8% 43.9%
1960 32.6% 30.7% 36.7%
1970 31.4% 37.6% 31.0%




The Baby Boom

Boomers, 1946

GE "Monitor Top"

Levittown, Pennsylvania

Snell Library, c. 1970

Northeastern, 1980

Northeastern, 1960

National Housing Act of 1934

  1. Home Owners' Loan Corporation; (later) Fannie Mae

Housing Act of 1949

  1. "Slum Clearance" in the Cities
  2. Public Housing developments for poor urbanites
  3. (Increase in) subsidized house loans for suburbanites.

Redlining

  • 19th Century Newspapers: Party Affiliated
  • 20th Century: Advertising (classified and commercial)
  • 21st Century: National Market, advertising driven, no costs of production.

Newspaper, 1861

Newsroom

Globe Presses

Hollywood

The Networks

Dick Van Dyke show

Broadcasting was a public resource under the 1927 Radio Act and 1935 Communications Act

  1. The federal Communications Committee issues "licenses" to broadcast on part of the spectrum
  2. "Public Interest" clause: broadcasters must serve a public good, including program diversity, education, etc.
  3. "Fairness Doctrine" requirements (until the late 1980s): broadcasters must provide time to all sides of an issue.

Presidential Debates, 1960

The West End

West End, demolished

Cold War Tensions

Truman Doctrine

Totalitarian Communism poses a threat to all people;

The United States will support all "Free People" resisting attempted subjugation.

(In practice, anyone fighting communism).

Flashpoints of the Cold War

  • Berlin (Divided Germany)
  • Greece/Turkey (admitted to the new NATO alliance to keep from Soviet Control)
  • China ("falls" to communists in 1949)
  • Various European movements

Korea 

French Indochina

Ho Chi Minh, years later

  • Technological battles
  • American H-Bomb (1952)
  • Russian H-Bomb (1953)
  • Outer Space

Kitchen Debate

Kennedy