HIST 2506 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Kitchen Debate, Youth Culture, Liberal Democracy
18 Feb 2017
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Mass culture: people living more like one another for the first time, records and record players, products became marketed to young people. Rock n" roll, blue jeans youth was the target audience. Marshall plan propaganda: economic aid, flooding of american money in europe, as well as cultural products in france, e. g. France was required to show a certain number of american films and products: french forced to accept american culture. Tuesday, march 29, 2016: meant to increase trade, lower tariff and increase free trade (especially of american. Lecture 19 - postwar products: cooperate economically, less likely to go to war again if they have common economic interests, offered to western and eastern european countries. New kind of social contract: america offered new way of looking at individuals freedom through consumption and material prosperity, holding up image of american women very important idea of kitchen.
