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"Georgia Mob..."
-NYT article
-Southern whites don't care of blacks served in military
-NYT sympathetic to blacks trampled
-specifically mentions one ex-GI in title
-2 men and 2 wives lined up and shot by 20 whites
-explicated how no officials were outraged, only "regretted"
"You can't fight them all"
-written by black journalist
-many blacks motivated to fight facism at home and abroad
-VV
-reported on all-black unit of air force
-colored vs. whites signs
-non sense wouldn't stop until in enemy territory
-blacks girl stepped in front of ferry
-white men trampled her
-black soldiers helped her
-girl just walked away
Rebels w/o a Cause?
-1st "young culture" since 1920s
-consumer culture
-music, TV, cars, movies
-anxiety about teens and JDs and deviant behavior
-concern about "going steady" as social problem
-US emerged as most powerful nation after WWII
competition and resulting awards huge
-now, dreams of stasis, stability, security, family, comfortability in youth
-before war, promiscuity valued
-number of dates values
-after war, security valued
-early marriage now the goal (average marriage age dropped to 20.4 for women)
-parents didn't like it: no competition, won't be the best you can, don't have to work for mate, competition is good for you
Beyond the Feminine Mystique
-Joanne Meyerowitz
-takes context of nuclearization, suburbanization, and calls it into question
-FM raises questions about their lives
-created powerful portrait of women in the 1950s
-samples from cross sections of magazines
-Freiden argued that women suffered from deep discontent from repression, denied careers, stunted growth
-however, Meyerowitz sampled literature
-mags advocated both domestic and non-domestic jobs for women
-hailed women who did both domestic and non domestic jobs
-only 15% focused on women as mothers, wives
-articles praised females doctors, secretaries
-encouraged involvement in politics (mags featured female politicians)
-not "The Good Housewife" all the time
Military Industrial Complex
-January 1961
-Dwight Eisenhower's farewell address
-newfound gov't influence in both directions
-"if you carry around a hammer, everything looks like a nail"
-industry being skewed for military concerns
-living in permanent state of war

-high levels of military expenditure after WWII
-created powerful domestic interest groups
-military services, corporations, high government officials, members of Congress, labor unions, scientists and scholars came to occupy powerful positions with in the state.
-mutually supportive, very influential

-US most productive, influential nation
-how to use power?
-must keep the peace in the world
-now, have to create permanent arms industry to combat infinite global threats
-must be ready for battle at all times
-have to guard against too much power
-guard against unwarranted influence
Nightmare in Red
-1990
-Richard Friedman
-fevered anti-communism
-McCarthyism
-far-reaching anxiety over communism

-traces the second Red Scare's antecedents back to the 1930s
-Fried reveals the wholesale effect of McCarthyism on the lives of thousands of ordinary people
-Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy
-many accusations in late 40s/early 50s
-touched 1000s ordinary Americans
-loyalty oaths, blacklists
-post WWII was growing time, prosperity
-Truman Doctrine in 1947
-fear of Commies abroad, at home
-anti-Communism derived persistence from American vlaues, seen a antithetical to Communist doctrines
-permeated all of society
-books, ideas, unpopular artists, libraries, academics, profs lost jobs, questioned fed employees sexuality
-everyone (gays, civil rights people) wanted to avoid ties to Communism
-McCarthy opponents also anti-communists, but disagreed with methods
Truman Doctrine
-March 12th, 1947
-Truman announced US should assist any country whose stability was threatened by communism
-initial request was specifically for $400 million to assist both Greece and Turkey
-great physical and financial costs of WWII wreaked havoc
-Greece = civil war
-Turkey = needed to modernize
-fall into the Soviet hands?
-outlined the situation specifically in Greece and Turkey
-both close to the Soviet Union
-endorsed the right of the people of Greece and Turkey to determine their own national destinies
-responsibility of US to aid other countries against communism
-small % of $ used to win WWII
-investment in world peace and world freedom.
-began the policy of containment during Cold War

-post WWII
-mind-boggling destruction everywhere
-previous conflicts set loose and countries scrambling for power
-many civilians killed
-countries already a mess
-Greece can't help self --> needs US to help
-instability to US unless dealt w/
-US threatened by threats anywhere
-US= "world's policeman"
-borders to be drawn?
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