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The USA 1940s, 50s and 60s

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A summary on the impacts the different decades had on women, minorities, the government and the rest of society. Edexcel AS History
Daisy Lovick
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Daisy Lovick
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The USA 1940s, 50s and 60s
  1. Women
    1. Worked in war industries
      1. Replaced by men who came home
      2. Suburban Living 'white flight'
        1. Shopping malls
          1. Betty Friedan and the Feminine Mystique
          2. The Pill
            1. Sexual revolution
              1. More women in training based jobs
              2. Equal Pay Act 1963
                1. Not ratified
              3. Minorities (eg immigrants and Black people)
                1. Executive Order 8802
                  1. Black people returned to segregation
                    1. Provoked outrage
                  2. Japanese internment
                    1. Chinese Exclusion Act repealed
                      1. Executive Order 9006
                      2. Displaced Persons Act
                        1. Montgomery Bus Boycott
                          1. Peaceful protests
                            1. NAACP
                              1. Martin Luther King
                            2. Brown V. Board of Education (1954)
                              1. Little Rock Nine
                              2. Immigration and Naturalisation Act 1965
                                1. Abolished National Origins Quota
                                2. Stonewall Riots
                                  1. Gay Liberation Front
                                3. Government
                                  1. Consequences of the New Deal
                                    1. Better banking system
                                    2. Second Red Scare
                                      1. Cold War
                                        1. Space Race
                                          1. Korean War
                                            1. Vietnam War
                                            2. McCarthyism
                                            3. Pressure on government to recognise civil rights
                                              1. Civil Rights Act 1969
                                            4. Rest of Society
                                              1. Hippies and counter culture
                                                1. Woodstock
                                                  1. Anti-Vietnam protests
                                                  2. New technology from WW2
                                                    1. Pop culture
                                                      1. Television boom
                                                        1. Increased advertising
                                                        2. Ed Murrow
                                                          1. Broadcast news from front line in WW2
                                                            1. Did a piece on the Red Scare in 1953
                                                              1. Exposed McCarthy as a liar in 1954
                                                              2. Showed Vietnam in a bad light
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