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The 1950s

Winner The Election of 1952 Adlai Stevenson Democrat Dwight Eisenhower Republican

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.

Winner The Election of 1956 Adlai Stevenson Democrat Dwight Eisenhower Republican

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

Bill Haley and the Comets Rock & Roll Bill Haley and the Comets Elvis 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 Parks Martin Luther King, Jr.

Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus Little Rock, Arkansas, 1957 Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus “The Little Rock Nine” (with a friend)

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