1. State Standards 9.2, 9.4, 9.12, 9.13

2. New Domesticity
 Time of change and
return to normalcy
 Television
 TV Dinners
 Life in the suburbs
 Americans move out of the
city to the suburbs
 Cookie Cutter homes

3. New Domesticity.
 Baby Boom
 When soldiers return
home a baby boom
results
 Increased the
population by 20%
 Search for the American
Dream
 A family with a house in
the Suburbs

4. New Media
 Changing Lifestyles
 Americans stay home to
watch television instead
of going out
 In a ten year span the
amount of households
with a TV increases by
41 million

5. New Media.
 1960 Presidential
Election
 John F. Kennedy vs.
Richard M. Nixon
 Television brings the
candidates into
American homes
 70 million viewers watch
 Nixon Looks Old
 Kennedy looks young and
tan
 GTL!

6. New Media..
 1960 Presidential
Election
 Radio listeners to the
debate claimed Nixon
won
 Television viewers
claimed Kennedy won
 50% of voters influenced
by the television debate
 Kennedy wins the election

7. Tennessee and the Music Industry
 Grand Ole Opry
 Nashville, TN
 Popularizes country
music on a national
scale
 WSM Radio
 Broadcasted the Opry
 Ralph Emery
 DJ who helped make the
Opry the longest running
radio program in history

12. Tennessee and the Music Industry
 Memphis
 Sun Studios
 Elvis Presley
 Records rock n’ roll at Sun
Studios
 Stax Records
 Otis Redding
 Music featured on Stax
Records which helped
expose soul music and
make it popular

13. Expanding Horizons
 Federal Postwar
Initiatives
 GI Bill
1. Paid tuition for veterans
who want to go to
college
2. Gave veterans money to
buy houses
 Most buy houses in the
suburbs

14. Expanding Horizons.
 National Interstate and
Highway Act
 Created a nationwide
system of highways
 Allowed for easier and
more extended travel
 Based off of the Autobahn
 Also aids in the
suburbanization of America
 Americans travel the roads,
sightseeing spots, love affair
with cars
 62 Days Before, 4 After

15. Segregation Continues
 African Americans
continue moving north
 White Americans move
to suburbs
 African Americans move
to the inner city

16. Segregation Continues.
 Jim Crow Laws
 Racist Laws
 Laws based off of
“Separate but equal”
 Separate But Equal
 Separate but not equal
develops

17. Changing Gender Roles
 Women and the Workforce
 Post WWII women forced
to leave workforce
 Average marrying age of
women drops to 20 years
 40% of women stay in
workforce
 Demoted to a “woman’s job”
 Women do not earn as
much as men do for the
same job

18. Changing Gender Roles.
 Ideal woman portrayed in
television sitcoms
 Stereotypical Female
Assets
1. Clean House
2. Neat Appearance
3. Well behaved children
 Rise of dissatisfaction
 Not all women are
happy with this life

19. The Space Race
 Sputnik I
 Russians launch the first
satellite into orbit
 US feels like far less of a
super power
 President Eisenhower
 Blamed for the US not
being as technologically
advanced as Russia
 Worries Sputnik can
launch atomic bombs

20. The Space Race.
 National Aeronautics
and Space Act (NASA)
 Goal was for the US to
become a leader in
space exploration
 Explorer I
 US launches its first
satellite

21. The Space Race..
 TV brings the Space Race
into American’s homes
 Apollo 11
 July 20, 1969
 Neil Armstrong
 First man on the moon
 “One small step for
man, one giant leap for
mankind”

22. Educational Changes
 Sought to improve
education in public
schools
 Focus shifts to most
outstanding students
 Prepare them for
government jobs
 Focused on math and
science