Guns and Butter

Some videos to go along with today's material:

David Bowie: Panic in Detroit



The 1967 Detroit Riot



Marines at Khe Sanh and the Tet Offensive



The Assassination of Martin Luther King




LBJ Announces that he will not run for reelection:

Civil Rights and the Cold War under JFK

The Nixon - Kennedy Debate of 1960:



Here is a LINK to the electoral contest in 1960

Forgive the Mad Men moment, and the overglorification of JFK's speech, but think of this video as a powerful document of the Cold War and why Berlin was so very important symbolically.



The bombing of the 16h Street Baptist Church, Birmingham:

The Birth of the Mall Rat

Here is an interesting video about Midtown Plaza Mall in Rochester, New York - a shopping center opened in 1963 to combat (oh, excuse me, coexist with) suburban growth.



some terms to consider today: baby boom, GI Bill (in education and credit), suburban shopping, Eisenhower Interstates, white flight.

1948: Civil Rights and the Cold War

Ol' Strom on the stump:

Some terms for today's lecture:

Scottsboro Boys, Election of 1948 (S. Thurmond, H. Wallace, T. Dewey, H.S. Truman, Berlin Airlift, NAACP, CPUSA, Dixiecrats

The War in the Pacific

The Pacific Theater:

A poster promoting the Greater East-Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere from the 1930s

The B-29 "Superfortress" with its long range and pressurized cabin:



The Kamikaze: How did this alter notions of naval power?




A few terms from today's lecture: for clarity's sake:
Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere (1930s), Island Hopping, The importance of aircraft carriers, Midway, Leyte Gulf, B-29, Kamikaze, Iwo Jima.

Textbook terms for Test 2

Chapter 19
The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Wilson and Mexico
the Lusitania
submarine warfare and its influence on American intervention into WWI
Zimmerman telegram
Fourteen Points
Committee on Public Information (CPI)
Jeannette Rankin
Espionage Act of 1917
W.E.B. DuBois and Souls of Black Folk
"Closing Ranks"
The Great Migration
Marcus Garvey
A. Mitchell Palmer and the Red Scare
Treaty of Versailles and why it didn't work


Chapter 20
Sacco and Vanzetti
the Hays code
the ACLU and what inspired its creation
fundamentalist revolt
Scopes trial
the Second KKK
Harlem Renaissance
Hoover's "associational action."

Chapter 21
The First New Deal and what it aimed to accomplish
John Maynard Keynes
The AAA
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
The Second New Deal and what it aimed to accomplish
Social Security
Wagner Act
FDR and the Supreme Court in his second term

Chapter 22
the Four Freedoms
Isolationism
Office of War Information (OWI)
the GI Bill of Rights
the Bracero program
nisei
Double-V
"What the Negro Wants"
Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)
Yalta

Seldom Disappointed and Best Years of our Lives

 Today we will be discussing the film and the book.

Some background information on the film, and a pretty decent analysis of key moments can be found here. It's no replacement for actually watching the movie, however.

Some insight into Fred's nightmares might well be gleaned from the following clip: