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| DESCRIBE THE POSTWAR CONSUMER CULTURE AND ITS VALUES |
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| A society that places high value on, and devotes substantial resources to, the purchase and display of material goods. Elements of American consumerism were evident in the nineteenth century but really took hold in the twentieth century with installment buying and advertising in the 1920s and again with the postwar prosperity of the 1950s. |
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| ANALYZZE PRES. EISENHOWER'S MIDDLE WAY AND MODERN REPUBLICANISM IN DOMESTIC POLITICS |
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MIDDLE WAY - his administration would “avoid government by bureaucracy as carefully as it avoids neglect of the helpless.”
modern Republicanism.” This meant resisting additional federal intervention in economic and social life, |
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| DESCRIBE THE ISSUES RAISED IN THE 1956 ELECTION |
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| a majority of Americans remained wedded to the programs and policies of the Democrats. |
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| ID JOHN FOSTER DULLES AND THE POLICIES OF BRINKMASHIP AND MASSIVE RETALIATION |
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Secretary of State Dulles believed that America's willingness to “go to the brink” of war with its intimidating nuclear weapons—a strategy called brinksmanship—would block any Soviet efforts to expand.
Nuclear weapons could not stop a Soviet nuclear attack, but in response to one, they could inflict enormous destruction on the USSR. This certainty of “massive retaliation” was meant to deter the Soviets from launching an attack. |
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| TRACE THE ORIGINS OF US INVOLVEMENT IN VIETNAM |
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| 1945, the Vietminh declared Vietnam's independence from France, and when France fought to maintain its colony, the area plunged into war. Because Ho declared himself a Communist, the Truman administration quietly began to provide aid to the French. |
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| EXPLAIN THE ROLE OF CIA IN FOREIGN POLICY DURING THE EISENHOWER ADMINISTRATION |
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| CIA an important arm of foreign policy in the 1950s. |
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| ID THE SUEZ CRISIS AND THE US RESPONSE |
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| The attack followed Egypt's decision of 26 July 1956 to nationalize the Suez Canal, Eisenhower opposed the intervention, recognizing that the Egyptians had claimed their own territory |
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| SOVIET NEW LEADER Khrushchev wanted to reduce defense spending and the threat of nuclear devastation. |
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| EXPLAIN THE IMPACT OF THE SPUTINIK SATELLITE ON AMERICAN SOCIETY |
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| Sputnik raised fears that the United States lagged behind the USSR not only in missile development and space exploration but also in science and education. Eisenhower insisted that the United States possessed nuclear superiority and tried to diminish public panic. He established the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in July 1958, approved a gigantic budget increase for space research and development, and signed the National Defense Education Act, providing loans and scholarships for students in math, foreign languages, and science. |
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| DISCUSS THE RESULTS OF THE 1960 U2 SPY PLANE INCIDENT |
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| but the U-2 incident dashed all prospects for a nuclear arms agreement. |
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| EXPLAINWHAT EISENHOWER MEANT WHEN HE WARNED AMERICANS NOT TO ALLOW THE MILITARY INDUSTRAIAL COMPLEX TO BECOME OVERLY POWERFUL |
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| defense contractors, who, in tandem with the military, sought more dollars for newer, more powerful weapons systems. |
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| ID THE DEMOGRAPHIC GROUPS AND REGIONS THAT MOST BENEFITED FROM CHANGES IN THE ECONOMY IN THE 1940S AND 50S |
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| larger farmers could afford technological improvements |
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| ANALYZE POST WAR DEMOGRAPHIC TRENDS INCLUDING THE RISE OF SUBURBS AND THE SHIFT IN POPULATION TO THE SUN BELT |
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the suburbs were accessible to families with modest incomes
The growing suburbs helped polarize society, especially along racial lines.
The growth of defense industries, a non-unionized labor force, and the spread of air-conditioning all helped spur economic development and population growth, which made the Sun Belt the fastest-growing region of the country |
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| ID THE IMPACT OF THE BRACERO PROGRAM ON MEXICAN IMMIGRANTS |
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the importation of temporary contract laborers from Mexico to the United States
more than 100,000 Mexicans entered the United States each year to labor in the fields—and many of them stayed, legally or illegally. |
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| EXPLAIN THE INCREASE OF WOMEN PARTICIPATION IN THE WORFORCE |
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| EXPLAIN THE GROWING IMPORTANCE OF TV IN SHAPPING AMERICAN VALUES AND ATTITUDES |
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Senator Joseph McCarthy's reckless attacks on army members were televised nationwide in 1954 and contributed to his downfall.
By 1960, television played a key role in election campaigns. |
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| ID THE CRITICS OF THE NEW CONSUMER CULTURE OF THE 1950S |
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William H. Whyte Jr., in his popular book The Organization Man
sociologist David Riesman
Vance Packard's
the Beats celebrated spontaneity and absolute personal freedom, including drug consumption and freewheeling sex |
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| DISCUSS THE OBJECTIVES VICTORIES AND FAILURES OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN TH 50S |
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| ID THE NAACP'S LEGAL STRATEGY IN THE CIVIL RIGHT MOVEMENT |
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| The legal strategy of the major civil rights organization, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), reached its crowning achievement with the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. |
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| DISCUSS THE USE OF PEACEFUL NON VIOLENT RESISTANCE AS METHOD EMPLOYED BY CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS |
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