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The Suburban Era
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1946 Levittown construction begins
Significant Events
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1950 Kefauver crime hearings 1952 Fertility rate in USA reaches new high 1954 St. Lawrence Seaway Act 1955 Elvis Presley ignites rock and roll 1957 Sputnik launched 1958 Richard Nixon attacked in Latin America
NASA established 1959 Kruschev visits United States 1960 Kennedy-Nixon debates 1961 Alliance for Progress
Peace Corps begunKennedy steps up U.S. role in Vietnam
1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
Settling In
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Laconia Street in a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio. Library of Congress
The Rise of the Suburbs
A Boom in Babies and in Housing
The boom worldwideLevittown, U.S.A
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The Rise of the Suburbs
Cities and Suburbs Transformed Interstate Highway Act of 1956 Declining cities Minorities and suburbs
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The Rise of the Suburbs
Cities and Suburbs Transformed
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The Culture of Suburbia
American Civil Religion The religious division Using God to fight communism
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Daily Lives
Public Space/ Private Space
The New Suburbia
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Suburban Resettlement Houses Library of Congress
The Culture of Suburbia
“Homemaking” Women in the Workaday World Working women Media images of women
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The Culture of Suburbia
A Revolution in Sexuality? The Kinsey Report Impact of the report
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The Culture of Suburbia
The Flickering Gray Screen Television and politics Watching events occur
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The Politics of Calm
Eisenhower’s Modern Republicanism Farm policy Eisenhower reelected
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Assessing Eisenhower
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counter pointcounter
The Politics of Calm
The Conglomerate World Diversification of the conglomerates Data processing in the business world
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Cracks in the Consensus
Critics of Mass Culture David Resiman’s The Lonely Crowd William Whyte’s Organization Man
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Cracks in the Consensus
The Rebellion of Young America Juvenile delinquency The rise of rock and roll The beat generation
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Nationalism in an Age of Superpowers
To the Brink? John Foster Dulles The New Look in foreign policy
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Nationalism in an Age of Superpowers
Brinkmanship in Asia Taiwan and mainland China Vietnamese victory at Dien Bien Phu
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Nationalism in an Age of Superpowers
The Covert Side of the New Look Overthrowing Mossadeq Crushing a democracy
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Nationalism in an Age of Superpowers
Nationalism Unleashed Nikita Kruschev
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Nationalism in an Age of Superpowers
Nationalism Unleashed Letting Hungary fall The Eisenhower Doctrine Castro’s revolution in Cuba
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Nationalism in an Age of Superpowers
The Response to Sputnik Recognizing American weakness National Defense Education Act
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Nationalism in an Age of Superpowers
Thaws and Freezes Berlin crisis The U-2 incident
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The Cold War Along a New Frontier
The Election of 1960 The Catholic issue
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The Cold War Along a New Frontier
The Hard-Nosed Idealists of Camelot Robert McNamara The image of Kennedy
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The Cold War Along a New Frontier
The (Somewhat) New Frontier at Home The issues of taxation Showdown with Big Steel
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Kennedy’s Cold War
Cold War Frustrations Bay of Pigs invasion Kennedy and Vietnam Diem falls
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Kennedy’s Cold War
Confronting Khruschev The Berlin Wall A flexible nuclear response
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Kennedy’s Cold War
Confronting Khruschev
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Kennedy’s Cold War
The Missiles of October A naval blockade Nuclear test ban treaty
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