The 1950s

The Election of 1952

Dwight EisenhowerRepublican

WinnerAdlai Stevenson

Democrat

Closing out the Korean War

“I will go to Korea.”

—Dwight D. Eisenhower

Closing out the Korean War

Panmunjon

Cease-fire signed, July 27, 1953

Closing out the Korean War

Final Reckoning: • Killed:

– U.S.: 36,516– South Korean: 673,000– Other U.N.: 1,809– North Korean: >200,000– Chinese: 145,000

Stalin dies, 1953.

Nikita Khrushchev becomes the new Soviet dictator.

The Election of 1956

Adlai StevensonDemocrat

Dwight EisenhowerRepublican

Winner

Sputnik, 1957

Eisenhower’s Domestic Policy

• Maintained “New Deal” programs• Built interstate highway system

American Society and Culture in the 1950s

The Post-War Baby Boom

Dr. Benjamin Spock

Television

Rock & Roll

Bill Haley and the CometsElvis Presley

Growing Affluence

The Civil Rights Movement

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 1954

Chief Justice Earl Warren

The Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955-1956

Rosa ParksMartin Luther King, Jr.

Little Rock, Arkansas, 1957

“The Little Rock Nine” (with a friend)

Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus