Cold War & 1950's Effects

The Cold War & 1950'S Effects

            Going through the eras, starting with the Gilded Age, education changed. It went through major low points up until The Cold War and The 1950's. The Effects on Education in the U.S. Due to The Cold War reads, “At first, the effects of the Cold War on American education were minimal. Mandatory public schooling to the completion of elementary school was only a generation old. In 1910, 28% of school-age children still did not attend school, and only 9% of Americans had graduated from high school. The first public junior high school did not exist until 1909..” With the new mandatory mandate that's when everything turned. Families saw the importance of education and the need. Now that the wars were over it was time to move on. It was time to prosper. Which is exactly what American families did.

            Though families started sending their children to school, that opened up the gateway of using propaganda to change the views of many, with the ideas of communism. Schooling was the new way to spread 'ideas'. The children would go home and tell their parents what the learned at school. In turn, the parents would tell their friend, who would tell their friends, and so on.

            Up until the 1950's the idea of high school wasn't huge. With there only being 9% of Americans graduating from high school. But in the 1950's everything changed. High school became somewhat of a normalcy. In high school they really tried to redirect the learning of American teenager. In the article, The Effects on Education in the U.S. Due to the 1950's it states, “In parallel with this new direction, students learned that getting a good education was their patriotic duty to help win the war against communism."

           

The United States of America today has remade their education system in every way possible. Relating to The Cold War and the 1950's we still have the same retrospect of learning. ' Good education is the best education.'