DeForest Kelley Videos : Time to Kill: George Reeves, DeForest Kelley, Betty White (1945)

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Time to Kill: George Reeves, DeForest Kelley, Betty White (1945)

thefilmarchive.org For the United States, 1945 to 1964 was an era of economic growth and prosperity which saw the victorious powers of World War II confronting each other in the Cold War and the triumph of the Civil Rights Movement that ended Jim Crow segregation in the South. The period saw an active foreign policy designed to rescue Europe and Asia from the devastation of World War II and to contain the expansion of Communism, represented by the Soviet Union and China. A race began to overawe the other side with more powerful nuclear weapons. The Soviets formed the Warsaw Pact of communist states to oppose the American-led North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) alliance. The US fought a bloody, inconclusive war in Korea and was escalating the war in Vietnam as the period ended. On the domestic front, after a short transition, the economy grew rapidly, with widespread prosperity, rising wages, and the movement of most of the remaining farmers to the towns and cities. Politically, the era was dominated by presidents, Democrats Harry Truman (1945--53), John F. Kennedy (1961--63) and Lyndon Johnson (1963--69), and Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953--61). For most of the period, the Democrats controlled Congress; however, they were usually unable to pass liberal legislation because of the power of the Conservative Coalition. The Liberal coalition came to power after Kennedy's assassination in 1963, and launched the Great Society. The immediate years unfolding after ...

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