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1 Postwar America

2 Harry Truman and the Fair Deal
National Health Insurance Loyalty Taft-Hartley Conservative Coalition Dixiecrats

3 Cold War at Home McCarthyism House Un-American Activities Committee
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg Civil Defense

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5 Eisenhower as President
K1C2 Creeping Socialism Sputnik National Defense Education Act

6 Camelot in the White House
New Frontier Peace Corps Dallas Lee Harvey Oswald

7 Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society
Liberalization of government “Discovery” of Poverty Medicare, Medicaid VISTA Urban Renewal Head Start Legal Aid NEH, NEA,

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9 Baby Boom/Booming Economy
Pent-up Demand Military spending Consumption Birthrate Suburbs

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11 Civil Rights Movement Plessey vs. Ferguson, 1896 Accomodationism
Booker T. Washington NAACP W. E. B. DuBois A. Philip Randolph Fair Employment Practices Commission To Secure These Rights Brown vs Topeka Board of Education Little Rock SCLC SNCC Freedom Rides 1964 Civil Rights Act 1965 Voting Rights Act

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