These videos will help explain things that we talk about in class.<\/p>\n
The Beginning: Seeds Of Change; <\/a> 1914-1919 Shell Shock<\/a>; 1920-1929 Boom To Bust<\/a>; 1929-1936 Stormy Weather<\/a>; 1936-1941 Over the Edge<\/a>; 1941-1945 Civilians At War<\/a>; 1941-1945 Homefront<\/a>; 1946-1952 Best Years<\/a>; 1953-1960 Happy Days<\/a>; 1960-1964 Poisoned Dreams<\/a>; 1965-1970 Unpinned<\/a>; 1971-1975 Approaching the Apocalypse<\/a>; 1976-1980 Starting Over;<\/a> 1981-1989 A New World;<\/a> 1990-1999 Then and Now;<\/a> These videos will help explain things that we talk about in class. The Beginning: Seeds Of Change; How did the 20th century change the ways Americans live? This program examines… Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":629,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/nack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/nack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/nack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/nack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/629"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/nack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/nack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1323,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/nack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions\/1323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/nack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/nack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/nack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nHow did the 20th century change the ways Americans live? This program examines the early 1900s \u2013 when William McKinley was President, a loaf of bread cost only a few cents, horsepower really meant horsepower, flying to the moon was the stuff of dreams, and the average life span was only 45 years \u2013 while looking ahead to the decades of changes yet to come.<\/p>\n
\nThe psychological damage inflicted by the stupifying bombardments of World War I was called shell shock, a term that aptly described the feeling of the post-war world. This program illustrates America\u2019s reluctant emergence as a world power and analyzes the impact of the wholesale sense of loss \u2013 of life, of husbands and fathers, and of sacred ideals such as honor, patriotism, and glory \u2013 that sprang from \u201cthe war to end all wars.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nIn the aftermath of World War I, many modern-minded Americans, particularly women, were eager to do away with outdated traditions and claim new rights and freedoms. This program investigates why the issue of women\u2019s rights, ranging from suffrage to smoking, became so controversial \u2013 and what that said about America\u2019s sense of self.<\/p>\n
\nAmerica \u2013 a nation that claimed ever-increasing wealth as a birthright \u2013 was rudely awakened by the Great Depression, which caused 25 percent unemployment, the closing of 9,000 banks, and the loss of $2.5 billion in deposits. This program captures a people\u2019s struggle as they faced the collapse of prosperity and diminished hope of being able to experience the American Dream.<\/p>\n
\nSafely watching Europe from across the Atlantic Ocean, many Americans observed the messianic popularity of Hitler and Mussolini and the subsequent outbreak of World War II with concern and dismay. This program explores the crucial question: could the United States resist involvement, or would American forces be sent to fight in another European war?<\/p>\n
\nWorld War II was the first war in history that killed more civilians than sodiers, as leaders on both sides accepted noncombatant casualties as inevitable \u2013 and, to some, even desirable. This program studies the courage and the strength necessary to face and survive starvation, bombing, torpedoing, massacre, and extermination in camps specifically designed for that purpose.<\/p>\n
\nThe shock of Pearl Harbor awoke America from its dream of isolationism. As troops went overseas and industry ramped up to supply the urgent need for war materials, a new wave of Southern blacks migrated north and west to fill the workforce \u2013 along with millions of women, who exchanged housework for war work. This program discusses the effects of World War II on the home front, spotlighting the war\u2019s impact as a catalyst for economic, demographic, and social change.<\/p>\n
\nDemobilization after World War II meant difficult changes as the U.S., geared up for war, resumed a peacetime existence. This program describes America\u2019s new status as a superpower, as the nation shouldered the responsibility for rebuilding Europe and Japan \u2013 and for containing Soviet ambitions. The challenge faced by veterans and spouses to become reacquainted after years of separation and hardship is highlighted.<\/p>\n
\nThe post-war baby boom, suburban living, Marilyn Monroe, and Elvis epitomizes the contentment of the Eisenhower years. But these were also years marked by rabid McCarthyism, violent civil rights demonstrations, and a frightening escalation in the Cold War. This program probes the tension between these crosscurrents in American History.<\/p>\n
\nBeset by both international and domestic pressures, America during the Camelot years was swiftly approaching a political-cultural meltdown. This program documents U.S. \u2013 Soviet conflicts of interest in Cuba and Vietnam and the growing polarization at home between civil rights activists and segregationist hard-liners, which resulted in the Birmingham riots and the freedom march on Washington.<\/p>\n
\nRiots and protests intensified in the U.S. as the war in Vietnam dragged on, with anti-war and civil rights activists seeking violent ways to agitate for peace and equality. This program presents the unrelenting rage that divided the nation during those perilous years, as the Watts race riots, the assassination of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, and the Kent State killing made Headline news.<\/p>\n
\nThe trauma of the war in Vietnam and the Watergate scandal left Americans exhausted, embittered, and disillusioned with politics and politicians. This program appraises the effects of those blights on the political landscape and their impact on the trust between the government and the governed, so vital to the well-being of a representative democracy such as the United States.<\/p>\n
\nThe women\u2019s and civil rights movements, begun decades earlier and as controversial as ever, continue to evolve during the nation\u2019s Bicentennial period. This program focuses on the changing momentum of feminism, hampered by its failure to secure broad ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, and the heated confrontations that arose over affirmative action and busing.<\/p>\n
\nThe Reagan era witnessed the unexpected end of the Cold War and a welcome return to a booming domestic economy \u2013 but did events unfold too quickly to control? This program takes a look at the details and the aftershocks both of the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the yuppie capitalism that threatened to push the limits of the American economy too far.<\/p>\n
\nFifty years into the future, how will computer and communications technology reshape the way Americans work and play? What will be the benefits and consequences of biotechnology? Will the third-world nations dominate headline news? This program examines key moments of the \u201890s, reflects on changes during the last five decades, and, with the assistance of leading futurists, looks ahead to some of the possible events and innovations just over the horizon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"