An Affluent Society, 1953-1960

The Golden Age

The Changing Society

The New Consumer Culture

The Interstate Highway System

The Eisenhower Era

The Election of 1952

Eisenhower’s Modern Republicanism

Massive Retaliation

John Foster Dulles: Sec. of State Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD)

Eisenhower and the Russians

Nikita Khrushchev

Khrushchev and Eisenhower

Testing “Peaceful Coexistence”

The Cold War in the Third World

Jacobo Arbenz Guzman: Guatemala

Mohammed Mossadegh: Iran Gamal Abdel Nasser:

Egypt

Origins of the Vietnam War

Divided Vietnam

Ho Chi Minh: North Vietnam

Ngo Dinh Diem: South Vietnam

Mass Society and its Critics

Hans J. Morganthau

John Kenneth Galbraith

Cultural Life in the 1950s

James Dean

Jack Kerouac

Elvis Presley

Television

Television

Television

Origins of the Civil Rights Movement

Legal Assault on Segregation

Thurgood Marshall: Attorney NAACP

Earl Warren: Chief Justice Supreme Court

The Montgomery Bus Boycott

Rosa Parks

The Leadership of Martin Luther King Jr.

The Election of 1960

John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon

The Importance of Televised Debates

The Election of 1960 Map