The Suburban Era Chapter 28
1946 Levittown construction begins Significant Events Chapter 28 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 begun Kennedy steps up U.S. role in Vietnam 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
Settling In Chapter 28 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 worldwide Levittown, U.S.A Chapter 28
The Rise of the Suburbs Cities and Suburbs Transformed Interstate Highway Act of 1956 Declining cities Minorities and suburbs Chapter 28
The Rise of the Suburbs Cities and Suburbs Transformed Chapter 28
The Culture of Suburbia American Civil Religion The religious division Using God to fight communism Chapter 28
Daily Lives Public Space/ Private Space The New Suburbia Chapter 28 Suburban Resettlement Houses Library of Congress
The Culture of Suburbia “Homemaking” Women in the Workaday World Working women Media images of women Chapter 28
The Culture of Suburbia A Revolution in Sexuality? The Kinsey Report Impact of the report Chapter 28
The Culture of Suburbia The Flickering Gray Screen Television and politics Watching events occur Chapter 28
The Politics of Calm Eisenhower’s Modern Republicanism Farm policy Eisenhower reelected Chapter 28
Assessing Eisenhower Chapter 28 counter point counter
The Politics of Calm The Conglomerate World Diversification of the conglomerates Data processing in the business world Chapter 28
Cracks in the Consensus Critics of Mass Culture David Resiman’s The Lonely Crowd William Whyte’s Organization Man Chapter 28
Cracks in the Consensus The Rebellion of Young America Juvenile delinquency The rise of rock and roll The beat generation Chapter 28
Nationalism in an Age of Superpowers To the Brink? John Foster Dulles The New Look in foreign policy Chapter 28
Nationalism in an Age of Superpowers Brinkmanship in Asia Taiwan and mainland China Vietnamese victory at Dien Bien Phu Chapter 28
Nationalism in an Age of Superpowers The Covert Side of the New Look Overthrowing Mossadeq Crushing a democracy Chapter 28
Nationalism in an Age of Superpowers Nationalism Unleashed Nikita Kruschev Chapter 28
Nationalism in an Age of Superpowers Nationalism Unleashed Letting Hungary fall The Eisenhower Doctrine Castro’s revolution in Cuba Chapter 28
Nationalism in an Age of Superpowers The Response to Sputnik Recognizing American weakness National Defense Education Act Chapter 28
Nationalism in an Age of Superpowers Thaws and Freezes Berlin crisis The U-2 incident Chapter 28
The Cold War Along a New Frontier The Election of 1960 The Catholic issue Chapter 28
The Cold War Along a New Frontier The Hard-Nosed Idealists of Camelot Robert McNamara The image of Kennedy Chapter 28
The Cold War Along a New Frontier The (Somewhat) New Frontier at Home The issues of taxation Showdown with Big Steel Chapter 28
Kennedy’s Cold War Cold War Frustrations Bay of Pigs invasion Kennedy and Vietnam Diem falls Chapter 28
Kennedy’s Cold War Confronting Khruschev The Berlin Wall A flexible nuclear response Chapter 28
Kennedy’s Cold War Confronting Khruschev Chapter 28
Kennedy’s Cold War The Missiles of October A naval blockade Nuclear test ban treaty Chapter 28