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fandomhigh2016-04-01 11:16 am
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20th Century American History, Friday, April 1, 2016
"We got into this a little last week," Steve said with a small nod at Raven if she was there, "but this week we'll talk about the 1950s and the Cold War."
After going into some detail about how the Korean War began as a civil war and spun into a proxy war, Steve smiled a little wryly. "I really don't want this class to just be a rehashing of every war the United States has been involved in, so let's talk about other things that happened in the 1950s, too. The polio vaccine was introduced, which would have been huge: I knew people in my neighborhood with polio. The space race began with Sputnik in 1957--we'll get more into space next week. Comics were considered the gateway drug to juvenile delinquency, unions reached their peak in strength, millions of men and women returned from the front and set up households and had an absolute ton of children...what else am I missing?"
He turned to the class. "What do you think was a lasting legacy of the 1950s?"
After going into some detail about how the Korean War began as a civil war and spun into a proxy war, Steve smiled a little wryly. "I really don't want this class to just be a rehashing of every war the United States has been involved in, so let's talk about other things that happened in the 1950s, too. The polio vaccine was introduced, which would have been huge: I knew people in my neighborhood with polio. The space race began with Sputnik in 1957--we'll get more into space next week. Comics were considered the gateway drug to juvenile delinquency, unions reached their peak in strength, millions of men and women returned from the front and set up households and had an absolute ton of children...what else am I missing?"
He turned to the class. "What do you think was a lasting legacy of the 1950s?"