QUIZ: the 1950s

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American Culture, Art & Society in the 50's

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What was the 1950's known for?

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What was the 1950s known for?

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The 1950s were a decade marked by the post-World War II boom, the dawn of the Cold War and the civil rights movement in the USA.

Dominated by the Vietnam War, Civil Rights Protests, the 50s also saw the assassinations of US President John F Kennedy

Martin Luther King gave his speech and finally ended on a good note when the first man is landed on the moon .

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- The post-World War II-

The 1950s were a decade marked by the post-World War II boom, the dawn of the Cold War and the civil rights movement in the United States. The United States was the world’s strongest military power. Its economy was booming, and the fruits of this prosperity–new cars, suburban houses and other consumer goods–were available to more people than ever before.

However, the 1950s were also an era of great conflict. For example, the nascent civil rights movement and the crusade against communism at home and abroad in the Korean War exposed underlying divisions in American society.

Link to the official ➥https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/1950s

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One of the most significant decades in 20th century. There was the rise of Pop Art, Op Art, Minimalism, Conceptual Art, Performance Art, and Feminist Art, among countless other styles and movements.

What was Art like in the 1950s?

Many art movements started in the 50s and reached their peak in decades after. Notably, the most important movement was abstract expressionism, but it influenced the many art practices worldwide, like Modern sculpture, Pop Art, Neo-dada, Art Informel, and Lyrical Abstraction.

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The story of 1950s Art

Europe by settling in the United States, which made New York the world's capital of art.

The story of 1950s art begins at the end of the Second World War, because it was such a rupture to the body of the world, that the post-war art beginnings extend from mid 1940s to the next decade. Slowly, as the world start recovering from the war trauma, new art movements used to develop worldwide. Major influences on the 1950s art were made by 1920s avant-garde movements, modernism, surrealism and abstract painting.

There are only few art styles continued even throughout the period of the war, and those were withheld by individual practices of influential artists from pre-war era such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp. For many artists, World Wars of 20th century brought the migration, and significant authors of 1950s decade were escaping Nazism in

Link to the official ➥https://www.widewalls.ch/magazine/1950s-art

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How was society different in this decade?

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Hundreds of thousands of ordinary Americans gave new life to the nation's democratic ideals. African Americans used sit-ins, freedom rides, and protest marches to fight segregation, poverty, and unemployment.

Rates of unemployment and inflation were low, and wages were high. Middle-class people had more money to spend than ever. And, because the variety and availability of consumer goods expanded, they had more things to buy.

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Many young, people had to deal with the post war dream and the lack of interest in what their parents had taught them and a kind of malaise about their values and life in general.

It was one of the most tumultuous and divisive decades in world history.Feminists demanded equal job opportunities and an end to sexual discrimination.

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Rates of unemployment and inflation were low, and wages were high. Middle-class people had more money to spend than ever..

- Society in the 1950s-

After World War II ended, many Americans were eager to have children because they were confident that the future promised peace and prosperity. In many ways, they were right. Between 1945 and 1960, the gross national product more than doubled, growing from $200 billion to more than $500 billion, kicking off “the Golden Age of American Capitalism.” Much of this increase came from government spending: The construction of interstate highways and schools, the distribution of veterans’ benefits and most of all the increase in military spending–on goods like airplanes and new technologies like computers–all contributed to the decade’s economic growth.

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What were the social movements in the 50s?

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The fight for freedom and equality.:women fought for equal rights and equal pay, Black Americans fought against racial disparity, and pacifists rebelled against the Vietnam War.

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It began with a build-up from the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Supreme Court Decision of 1954. This desegregation decision began the Civil Rights movement.

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The list is staggering: the drug scene, the free love scene, the music scene, the modern art scene, the civil rights movement, the Beat Generation, the peace movement.

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The booming prosperity of the 1950s helped to create a widespread sense of stability, contentment and consensus in the United States. However, that consensus was a fragile one, and it splintered for good during the tumultuous 1960s.

Sam Cooke. Chuck Berry. Fats Domino. Buddy Holly. The 1950s saw the emergence of Rock ‘n’ Roll, and the new sound swept the nation.

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