 Height of the Cold War  Korean War  More Blue Collar v. White Collar workers  Immigration quotas ◦ Few foreign born  More blacks in the South  Segregation

 Union power  No Supermarkets  No Malls  Divorce rate low  Feminism “deep illness”  Suburbs, 98% white

 Modern Republicanism  Cabinet ◦ Prominent businessmen ◦ Secretary of defense  Charles Wilson- GM ◦ Treasury  George Humphrey  Fiscal Conservative  Budget cuts

 Conservative with money  Liberal towards human beings  Cut taxes/spending 10%  Tidelands oil Act ◦ $40 billion ◦ Coastal oil ◦ From fed to states ◦ Controversial

 Sec. of State ◦ John Foster Dulles ◦ “Nuclear threat”  Truce signed, 38 th parallel  North and South formed  50,000 U.S. killed  2.4 million civilians killed  2.3 million Chinese, South, and North killed

 Congress- Republican control  House Un-American committee  1,450 Fed. Workers fired  “Alcoholics”, homosexuals, subversives  Oppenheimer, Manhattan project ◦ Loses clearance

 Senator Joseph McCarthy  Red Hunt  Attacking Government  Republicans upset  Ike: Air the proceedings  McCarthy censured  Dies at 48, alcoholism

 Nuclear build up  Military down size  CIA, Allen Dulles  Iran ◦ CIA operation ◦ Shah returned to power  Guatemala ◦ CIA over throw communist

 Vietnam ◦ Funded the French ◦ Against Ho Chi Minh ◦ French lose at Dien Bien Phu ◦ Geneva Peace Accords ◦ Cease Fire ◦ 17 th Parallel, North and South Vietnam

 Brown v. Board of Education ◦ Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896 ◦ Desegregation of the schools ◦ “with all deliberate speed”  Montgomery Bus Boycott ◦ Rosa Parks Arrested, Dec. 1, 1955 ◦ Boycott of the Buses by Blacks ◦ Martin Luther King Jr. led the way

 1949, sold in Sears Catalog  20,000 sets a day  $  Ed Sullivan show ◦ Elvis Presley ◦ Beatles

 Richard Nixon’s “Checkers Speech”  McCarthy hearings  I Love Lucy, very popular  Racial profiling ◦ Jack Benny show, Rochester ◦ Amos and Andy  All black cast  NAACP protests, “Clowns” and “Crooks” profile

 Rhythm-and-Blues  Led to Rock and Roll  Elvis Presley ◦ Devoted to his mother ◦ No drugs, drinking, smoking ◦ Yet portrayed as vulgar and dangerous ◦ Sullivan show, shot from the waist up

March of Dimes charity Dr. Jonas Salk Polio vaccine, 1955 Interstate Highways $25 billion new taxes 40,000 miles of interstate highways Prosperity Progress National Security

 “Little Rock Nine”  1956, “Southern Manifesto”  100 Congressmen, resist desegregation  National guard turns students away  Paratroopers sent in  Escort students  Civil Rights and Eisenhower?

 1957, Soviets, 1 st satellite  Anger, America Complacent  Education eyed  Science and Math lacking  Life magazine ◦ Differing education U.S. v. USSR ◦ We look bad  Nuclear advantage is ours

 Democrats take 1958 mid-terms  Khrushchev visits U.S.  Camp David meeting  Eisenhower to USSR in 1960  U2 incident ◦ Shot down over Soviet Union ◦ Eisenhower does not apologize ◦ No longer welcome in USSR

 Nixon v. Kennedy  Nixon ◦ Modest beginning ◦ Political rise dramatic ◦ Alger Hiss case ◦ VP  Kennedy ◦ Born to wealth ◦ Brother to be President ◦ Dies in war, torch passed to John