Advertising in the 1950s was primarily targeted at women. Because men were the breadwinners of the household, women were left to spend the money made by the man, and therefore had the most control of the family budget and products purchased. This meant that many ads used domestic life as a connection to the consumer (housewife). “The women of the 1950’s, at least through American advertising, functioned as more than stylish help, but domestic help with a difference: her portrayal also includes strong decision making. Not only is the American women IN 1950’s advertising, but she also decides what will be purchased”

-the 1950’s was a huge decade for technology, credit cards were made as well as tape recorders. Solar Cell, Solar Battery and many other electronic communication devices were very popular within the 1950’s. 

-In the 1950’s people all over the world saw that they’d find entertainment virtually. People around the world could see how celebrities were dressing, how they would act. They would see the news about what’s happening around the world.

- Appliances were popular to buy as it would make everyones life a bit easier, people were happy about these new home appliances as it gave them more time for their own pleasure.

Advertising during this period reflected a conscious return to traditional family values and the painful memories of the Great depression war were replaced by positive futuristic idolized unity in modern families. Advertising also portrayed society’s upward mobility and prosperity.

The most important factor that influenced advertising agencies was the growth of TV. Advertising agencies produced TV shows with networks providing more facilities and occasional guidance

The burning of books under the Nazi regime on May 10, 1933, is perhaps the most famous book burning in history.

The Nazi book burnings were a campaign conducted by the German Student Union (the "DSt") to ceremonially burn books in Nazi Germany and Austria in the 1930s. The books targeted for burning were those viewed as being subversive or as representing ideologies opposed to Nazism. These included books written by Jewish, pacifist, religious, liberal, anarchist, socialist, communist, and sexologist authors among others.[1] The first books burned were those of Karl Marx and Karl Kautsky.[2]

On May 10, 1933, university students burned upwards of 25,000 “un-German” books in Berlin’s Opera Square. Some 40,000 people gather to hear Joseph Goebbels deliver a fiery address: “No to decadence and moral corruption!”

As part of an effort to align German arts and culture with Nazi ideas (Gleichschaltung), university students in college towns across Germany burned thousands of books they considered to be “un-German,” heralding an era of state censorship and cultural control. Students threw books pillaged mostly from public and university libraries onto bonfires with great ceremony, band-playing, and so-called “fire oaths.” The students sought to purify German literature of “foreign,” especially Jewish, and other immoral influences. Among the authors whose works were burned was Helen Keller, an American whose belief in social justice encouraged her to champion disabled persons, pacifism, improved conditions for industrial workers, and women's voting rights.

The United States and Great Britain feared the Soviet Union's domination over eastern Europe and their parties trying to gain power in the democracies of western Europe. The Soviets were determined to maintain control of eastern Europe in order to reassure against any possible threats from Germany and had the intent to spread their ideals (communism) worldwide.