The 'American Century'? by Christian O'Connell https://padlet.com/uniofglos/b13iwn75gvd4 Module Overview & Discussion en-us 2018-05-18 07:45:02 UTC 2025-09-29 10:18:03 UTC hello@padlet.com The 'Good War'? christianoconnell2 https://padlet.com/uniofglos/b13iwn75gvd4/wish/261831583 2018-05-18 07:45:49 UTC https://padlet.com/uniofglos/b13iwn75gvd4/wish/261831583 Post-War Youth & Protest christianoconnell2 https://padlet.com/uniofglos/b13iwn75gvd4/wish/261831840 2018-05-18 07:47:07 UTC https://padlet.com/uniofglos/b13iwn75gvd4/wish/261831840 Civil Rights & Social Equality christianoconnell2 https://padlet.com/uniofglos/b13iwn75gvd4/wish/261832097 2018-05-18 07:48:34 UTC https://padlet.com/uniofglos/b13iwn75gvd4/wish/261832097 Vietnam & the Anti-war movement christianoconnell2 https://padlet.com/uniofglos/b13iwn75gvd4/wish/261832379 2018-05-18 07:49:50 UTC https://padlet.com/uniofglos/b13iwn75gvd4/wish/261832379 The 'American Century'? christianoconnell2 https://padlet.com/uniofglos/b13iwn75gvd4/wish/261832949 2018-05-18 07:52:22 UTC https://padlet.com/uniofglos/b13iwn75gvd4/wish/261832949 Beth Bailey is wrong https://padlet.com/uniofglos/b13iwn75gvd4/wish/261841121 jettison
ˈdʒɛtɪs(ə)n,ˈdʒɛtɪz(ə)n/
verb
  1. 1. 
  2. throw or drop (something) from an aircraft or ship.

  1. "six aircraft jettisoned their loads in the sea"

noun
]]> 2018-05-18 08:33:12 UTC https://padlet.com/uniofglos/b13iwn75gvd4/wish/261841121 Civil Rights Movement https://padlet.com/uniofglos/b13iwn75gvd4/wish/261841238  
- In what ways were the actions of these young African American students significant for other Americans, like women? Why? 
- the civil rights movement influenced the other movements - such as womens movement and student movement
- those protesting in the civil rights movement saw that their own issue needed solving and therefore started protesting for change.
- many (but not all) of the protest techniques were used in the other movement - such as sit ins and passive protest 
 - In what ways did the Civil Rights movement change American society during the 1950s and 1960s? 
- the amount of support from all races and sexes across the country that participated as well as those higher up
- societies and cities became segregated
- change did happen even if slowly within society, the military and it can be said within the minds of some of the American people themselves
]]> 2018-05-18 08:33:44 UTC https://padlet.com/uniofglos/b13iwn75gvd4/wish/261841238 The American Century https://padlet.com/uniofglos/b13iwn75gvd4/wish/261842249 1. Life's vision of the American Century was realised to a certain extent by a small minority of the population - white middle class. However, for ethnic minorities that reality was far from the truth.

2&3. Although there was progress in some areas of society such as that of Civil Rights and economic matters (civil rights act of 1964 and rising employment and GDP) they were largely overshadowed by the large inequality and wars that existed in the period. There were still inequalities within the civil rights and women as well as the failure of the Vietnam war and the tensions of the Cold war.]]> 2018-05-18 08:37:59 UTC https://padlet.com/uniofglos/b13iwn75gvd4/wish/261842249 https://padlet.com/uniofglos/b13iwn75gvd4/wish/261842275 To what extent was WWII a 'good' war? Who benefitted and who did not? Why?

- Economy- wages for industrial workers rose 50%, farmers income rose 200%, rise of consumerism and affluent society (but not everyone was), the war got America out of the Depression more successfully than New Deal, war caused debt for future generations
- Employment- Many jobs were created on the home front: men, women, African Americans, end of war lead to many white males taking jobs back, could be argued however that the war gave minorities more opportunities, 'conditioned'- they had experienced aspects of equality and wanted this further thereafter
- Japanese Americans- Internment, stigmatised due to their race 
- World Power- The war catapulted America onto the world stage
- Science- Atomic bomb kills thousands of innocents, catalyst of the Cold War, 'Arms Race']]> 2018-05-18 08:38:08 UTC https://padlet.com/uniofglos/b13iwn75gvd4/wish/261842275 Vietnam and anti-war protest https://padlet.com/uniofglos/b13iwn75gvd4/wish/261843197 Reasons why it was opposed - 
It was far away, and largely inconsequential to the American people. People therefore questioned what they were actually fighting for.

Slient majority were overshadowed by the actions of protestors -
There was a silent majority as the protests did not work, so there must have been someone supporting the war

The consequences - 
There was a generational and societal divide. The escalation of the war was a key reason for Johnson's downfall.
And pulling out under Nixon was the beginning of a conservative wave in American politics. ]]> 2018-05-18 08:42:07 UTC https://padlet.com/uniofglos/b13iwn75gvd4/wish/261843197 Youth Protest https://padlet.com/uniofglos/b13iwn75gvd4/wish/261843344 Levitown/ suburbia = some white m/c USAers were affluent
W/c / ethnics = more likely to be drafted in vuetnam, black soldiers more likely to be lower rank and more likely to be killed/wounded 
Students = many avoided draft through 2-S form, campus was a safe space for protest, lecturers who were activist, easy to be organised
"Generation gap" = frustration with expectations and unrealistic nature of society, fed up with society being shit for women, w/c and blacks


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