Social Changes

1. Social Changes GI Bill to the Internet

2. Baby Boom

3. 1940s GI Bill

4. 1950s • Suburbia • Levittown • Urban Sprawl • White Flight

6. Domesticity

7. 1960s – Camelot

8. Great Society • War on Poverty • Civil Rights Act • Voting Rights Act • Medicare • Medicaid • Clean Water Act • National Endowment for the Arts • Head Start

9. Anti-War Protests 1968 Democratic Convention

10. Campus Shootings Kent State (May 4, 1970)

11. Campus Shootings Jackson State (May 14, 1970)

12. Moon Landing

13. 1970s • Women’s Movement • Birth Control Pill • ERA • Roe v. Wade

14. Divorce Rates

15. 1970s • Rise of Televangelism • Jogging (Personal Fitness)

16. Discussion:In terms of society’s values, how do the nineteen seventies compare to the nineteen sixties?

17. 1970s Crisis of Confidence Speech – July 15, 1979

18. 1980s • Yuppies • Greed is Good

19. Technology • VCR • PCs • Walkman

20. 1990s – Race Issues • Rodney King • LA Riots • OJ Simpson

21. Welfare Reform

22. Welfare Reform

23. Internet

24. Discussion • Turn to a neighbor. • Discuss the ways in which American Society have changed over the last 50 years.

25. Bibliography • Slide 2 Photo: http://www.dvdizzy.com/images/h-k/hds3-cov.jpg • Slide 2 Clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLt7clQbBzo • Slide 3 Photo: http://www.english.ucla.edu/ucla1960s/6061/giandbill.gif • Slide 4 Graph: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6d/Birthratechart_stretch.PNG/800px-Birthratechart_stretch.PNG • Slide 5 Photo: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/10/12/nyregion/12levittown.CA01.jpg • Slide 6 Photo: http://www.chucksconnection.com/donnareed4.gif • Slide 8 Photos: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG03/omara-alwala/CamelotIV.html and http://www.extrememortman.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/Caroline%20Kennedy%20pony%20Macaroni%20Neil%20Diamond.jpg • Slide 9 Photo: http://www.sptimes.com/2007/03/18/images/xlarge/SpecIn_Timelin_1409563.jpg • Slide 10 Photo: http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/1968/68-chicago.jpg • Slide 11 Photo: http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/USPics5/57829a.jpg • Slide 12 Photo: http://www.uiowa.edu/~policult/assets/VietNam/KentState.jpg • Slide 13 Photo: http://web.archive.org/web/20050411094258/http://ccaix.jsums.edu/~www/images/gg2-01a.jpg • Slide 14 Photo: http://www.explore.rice.edu/images/explore/kennedy_rice%5B1%5D.jpg • Slide 14 Clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTyYM-dUgCI • Slide 15 Photo: http://news.bbc.co.uk/furniture/special_report/1999/07/99/the_moon_landing/moon_walk_image.jpg • Slide 16 Photo: http://www.eoearth.org/media/draft/e/e9/Carter-Oval_office.jpg • Slide 16 Audio Clip: http://webstorage4.mcpa.virginia.edu/speeches/video/wmv/spe_1979_0715_carter.wmv • Slide 17 Photo: http://www.ils.unc.edu/dpr/path/era/ERAactivists.jpeg • Slide 18 Graph: http://www.bsos.umd.edu/socy/vanneman/socy441/trends/divorce.jpg • Slide 19 Photos: http://www.billygraham.org/images/mediaRelations/billyGrahamPreaching_web.jpg and http://www.halhigdon.com/Articles/Fixx.jpg • Slide 20 Photo: http://fireballsandtsunami.com/images/photos/060601-yuppiehandbook01.jpg • Slide 21 Photos: http://mitpress.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/ibm_figure.jpg and http://www.tribu-design.com/collections/photos/sony4.jpg • Slide 22 Photo: http://www.kang.org/images/9Riotbucket.jpg • Slide 22 Clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROn_9302UHg • Slide 23 Graph: http://www.heritage.org/Research/Welfare/images/66121946.gif • Slide 24 Graph: http://www.heritage.org/Research/Welfare/images/chart-1.gif • Slide 25 Photo: http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/images/1993_mosaic_browser_large.jpg