HIST 373 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Evangelicalism, Kitchen Debate, Sleeping Car
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Can see it everywhere: supreme court decisions, modern politicians (obama, clinton, republicans) Patriarchal, nuclear family values 1960s trends of divorce, abortion, sexual promiscuity (leading to. Government welfare/totality tendency via johnson"s great society . Vietnam weakens us abroad (anti-americanism), empowered communism in 3rd world, Romantic view: empowered the marginalized, voiceless (blacks, women, gays) Chronologies: the decade as a unit of history is idiotic. Diplo 54-75 (indochina through end of nam) Civil rights: 54-68 (brown v. board though mlk) Women: 64-84 (civil rights act through the defeated amendment) Musical: 50s-70s (elvis, bob dylan, beatles through queen, disco) Cultural shift accepts private sexual diversity (pre-marital, homosexuality); role of women. Bush, nixon, george wallace) overlooked: religious fundamentalism, libertarianism. Anti-govt shared by rights and left. Affluence (embourgeoisement) "45-"60 gdp +250%; no class conflict = us exceptional . World bust: ww2 destroyed europe/japan economically and demographically] Us boom great compression of income gap; middle class 5-10k/year 31 60% pop.
