HIST 2013 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Massive Resistance, Montgomery Improvement Association, Southern Manifesto
23 Aug 2016
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July 24, 1959 american national exhibition in moscow consumerism (tied to american culture) modern suburbian ranch house tried to demonstrate the superiority of modern capitalism and ideology of political and economic freedom. Series of exchanges between the us vice president nixon and soviet premier nikita. Debated about the future of capitalism & communism. Nixon used the words housewives and women interchangeably implied that women did not have to work (socioeconomic roles: the golden age. Economic expansion, stable prices, low unemployment allowed ordinary citizens purchase the consumer products. Us was world"s most predominant industrial power (this was the last age of it) American farming goes to the west fewer and larger farms more e cient ways machinery, seed specialization, increased use of irrigation. A suburban nation the transformation of southern life. Engines of economic growth during the 1950s were residential construction and spending on consumer goods. Suburbs (the dream of home ownership) accessible housing is easy and cheaper to build.
