https://padlet.com/marlen_rosales1_2/39ambeegeg1c To examine the social, political, and economic influences in the 1950's America. en-us 2019-04-15 16:05:02 UTC 2025-10-15 15:06:57 UTC hello@padlet.com marlen_rosales1_2 https://padlet.com/marlen_rosales1_2/39ambeegeg1c/wish/351711158 McCarthy was then a victim in the end of his own arrogance, recklessness and laziness, staggered from the contest discredited. with his fall came the beginning of the end of one of the great Red Scares of the 1940's and early 1950's. Red Scares were fears when government officials and other groups promoted a fear of communism in the united states, which would overthrow capitalism and democracy. McCarthy attracted devoted followers who saw him as courageous and unafraid to attack disloyal elites.]]> 2019-04-15 16:09:38 UTC https://padlet.com/marlen_rosales1_2/39ambeegeg1c/wish/351711158 marlen_rosales1_2 https://padlet.com/marlen_rosales1_2/39ambeegeg1c/wish/351711470 The crossing of a great divide in the history of humanity was often described as an economic miracle. The GNP was growing 14 times as fast as the population and seven times the rate of inflation. In 1940 and 1965 average income grew about 2,000 dollars per family per year to just under 8,000 dollars, when inflation was adjusted, it meant that average family incomes almost tripled. In 1950 the official poverty line was 30 percent. By 1960 it had dropped to 22 percent and by the 1960s, it had dropped to under 14 percent.]]> 2019-04-15 16:10:25 UTC https://padlet.com/marlen_rosales1_2/39ambeegeg1c/wish/351711470 marlen_rosales1_2 https://padlet.com/marlen_rosales1_2/39ambeegeg1c/wish/351711584 The public nation of the 1950s was another america, There was growing fear that the modern world threatened their freedom, their independence, their authenticity. critics in the 1950-60s argued that employees of large corporations lost their individuality. Employees learned to dress alike, to adopt similar values and goals, and to "get along" at work. In earlier eras, most men and women had defined themselves largely in terms of their own values and goals. Many of the beats embraced an alternative lifestyle that involved rootlessness, anti-materialism, drugs and sexual freedom.]]> 2019-04-15 16:10:40 UTC https://padlet.com/marlen_rosales1_2/39ambeegeg1c/wish/351711584