Transcript The Korean War

“Happy Day’s”
The 1950’s
Essential Question: What were the events of the
1950’s that impacted North Carolinians and helped
shape American culture during the decade?
President Harry S. Truman
(1945-1953)
 Native of Missouri
 FDR’s last Vice-President
 Truman Doctrine- Contain
the Spread of Communism
 Programs were Called the
“Fair Deal”
 Married Bess Wallace
Truman
The Cold War
 Icy Relations Between the Soviet Union and the
United States between 1945- until the fall of the
Soviet Union in 1991.
 Warsaw Pact- Eastern European Countries such as
Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Yugoslavia
that the Soviet Union had invaded
 NATO-North Atlantic Treaty Organization, USA’s
Allies
 Arms Race- Stockpiling of Nuclear Weapons
The Cold War Begins
The Korean War
(1950-1953)
US Joins United Nations Troops
to Stop Communist Advancement of the N.
Koreans and Chinese
The Korean War Highlights
 Americans became more
fearful of communism as Mao
Zedong established a
communist government in
China
 Japan had held Korea as a
colony.
 Following WWII Soviet troops
occupied and established a
communist government in
Korea north of the 38th
Parallel. American troops
controlled south of the 38th.
 North Korea also was
supported by China.
Korean War Highlights
 Gen. Douglas Macarthur
was the commander of US
and United Nations troops
was fired by President
Truman after he kept
insisting to invade or bomb
the Chinese who were aiding
the N. Koreans
 President Truman believed
that he was the commander
and chief and that such a
plan could take the world into
another World War
Results of the Korean War
•55, 000 Americans Killed
•No Border Changes
•The war sent a clear
message to China and the
Soviet Union was
committed to fighting the
spread of Communism
Television
 1949- WBTV:
Charlotte, NC’s 1st TV
Station
 1954- WLOS:
 CBS,NBC, ABC-First
Networks
 Popular Shows: I Love
Lucy, Leave it to
Beaver, Mickey Mouse
Club
“Rock-n-Roll”
 Origins in Southern Gospel,
Southern Appalachian, and
Jazz music
 Elvis was born in Tupelo,
Mississippi and later moved
to Memphis, Tennessee
 Other Rock-n- Rollers:
Buddy Holly, Bill Haley, Little
Richard, Chuck Berry
 Popular African American
Producer: ”Motown” short for
Detroit, “The Motor Town”
Baby Boomers
 Increased Birth
Rates following
WWII and into the
1950’s
President Dwight Eisenhower (R)
 Thirty-Fourth President
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1953-1961
Born: October 14, 1890 in Denison, Texas .
Married to Mamie Dowd Eisenhower
West Point Graduate
1956-Created Interstate Highway System
1953- Cease Fire of the Korean War
Vice- President Richard Nixon- Calif.
Soviets Launch Sputnik-1957
The Civil Rights Movement Begins
Rosa Parks-1955
 Rosa Parks was
arrested for not going to
the back of a city bus
according to
Montgomery, Alabama
city ordinance
Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr
 Born in Atlanta,
Georgia-1929
 Baptist Pastor
 Organized the
Montgomery Bus
Boycott following the
Rosa Parks incident
through his church the
Dexter Avenue Baptist
Church
 Practiced Non-Violent
Protest
1954- Brown-vs- Board of Education
of Topeka, Kansas
 8 year old Linda Brown’s
case that her Constitutional
Rights were being denied
because she had to attend a
segregated school reaches
the United States Supreme
Court
 The Supreme Court ruled
that segregated schools
were unconstitutional and
order that all public schools
be integrated
Alaska and Hawaii Join the Union
 Alaska and Hawaii
joined the Union in
1959
 Alaska- 49th State
Juneau
 Hawaii-50th State
Honolulu