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Eisenhower Era: 1950s America in Transition

Explore the transformative decade of the 1950s, focusing on the Eisenhower presidency, societal shifts, and cultural changes. Dive into political developments, economic policies, societal norms, and technological advancements that shaped the era.

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Eisenhower Era: 1950s America in Transition

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  1. 1950’s Chapter 21

  2. Election of 1952 • Republican – Dwight D. Eisenhower • Vice Pres. – Richard Nixon • Campaign – “I Like Ike” • Out of Korea • Firm against Communism • Against Government Corruption • Democrats – Adlai Stevenson

  3. President Eisenhower • Hidden Hand Presidency: • New Importance of the Cabinet • Bricker Amendment: • Limited Presidential Powers to make treaties • Required Senate Confirmation for all foreign treaties • Prohibited treaties that violated state laws

  4. Election of 1956: • Presidential Disability: 3 major illnesses in 2nd term • 25th Amendment: Tyler Precedent • Presidential Succession • Presidential incapacitation • Democrats: Adlai Stevenson • Republicans: Peace and Prosperity

  5. Eisenhower and the New Deal: • Popularity of Entitlement Programs: • Extended: • Social Security • Unemployment • Federal health insurance program (rejected by Congress)

  6. Business and Labor: • Favored Big Business – No Anti-Trust suits • AFL merges with CIO to become AFL-CIO • Loss of Union support • Farms: Continued Hardship • Continue Federal Farm Programs?? • Agribusinesses – Large scale farms of more than 1000 acres • Migrant Workers: • Mexican Americans • No Federal protection

  7. Eisenhower Legislation: • Defense Education Act of 1958 – Support College Education and Math and Sciences • Federal Aid Highway Act – 1956 • Created a federal Highway system • Defense purposed • 1959 – 2 New States: Alaska and Hawaii • 1958 – NASA formed

  8. 1950’s Society • The Affluent Society: • Post WWII Boom • New Technologies: Automation – Mechanical Industry • Luxury Items and Services and the Automobile

  9. Suburbs: • Automobile – Move out of city and still work there. • Highway Act - More mobile society • Serious problems in the Cities: • Suburban Sprawl: • Levittowns • Conformity – “The American Dream”

  10. Family Life: • Women – Pressure to stay at home • Children: • Dr. Benjamin Spock – Pocket Book of Baby and Child Care • Baby Boom: More women staying home and marrying earlier • Material Culture: Give Children what they had not had • Television: • National Politics, Entertainment, Advertisements,

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