1. The Suburban Era Chapter 28

2.  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

3. Settling In Chapter 28 Laconia Street in a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio. Library of Congress

4. The Rise of the Suburbs A Boom in Babies and in Housing  The boom worldwide  Levittown, U.S.A Chapter 28

5. The Rise of the Suburbs  Cities and Suburbs Transformed  Interstate Highway Act of 1956  Declining cities  Minorities and suburbs Chapter 28

6. The Rise of the Suburbs  Cities and Suburbs Transformed Chapter 28

7. The Culture of Suburbia  American Civil Religion  The religious division  Using God to fight communism Chapter 28

8. Daily Lives Public Space/ Private Space The New Suburbia Chapter 28 Suburban Resettlement Houses Library of Congress

9. The Culture of Suburbia  “Homemaking” Women in the Workaday World  Working women  Media images of women Chapter 28

10. The Culture of Suburbia  A Revolution in Sexuality?  The Kinsey Report  Impact of the report Chapter 28

11. The Culture of Suburbia  The Flickering Gray Screen  Television and politics  Watching events occur Chapter 28

12. The Politics of Calm  Eisenhower’s Modern Republicanism  Farm policy  Eisenhower reelected Chapter 28

13. Assessing Eisenhower Chapter 28 counter point counter

14. The Politics of Calm  The Conglomerate World  Diversification of the conglomerates  Data processing in the business world Chapter 28

15. Cracks in the Consensus  Critics of Mass Culture  David Resiman’s The Lonely Crowd  William Whyte’s Organization Man Chapter 28

16. Cracks in the Consensus  The Rebellion of Young America  Juvenile delinquency  The rise of rock and roll  The beat generation Chapter 28

17. Nationalism in an Age of Superpowers  To the Brink?  John Foster Dulles  The New Look in foreign policy Chapter 28

18. Nationalism in an Age of Superpowers  Brinkmanship in Asia  Taiwan and mainland China  Vietnamese victory at Dien Bien Phu Chapter 28

19. Nationalism in an Age of Superpowers  The Covert Side of the New Look  Overthrowing Mossadeq  Crushing a democracy Chapter 28

20. Nationalism in an Age of Superpowers  Nationalism Unleashed  Nikita Kruschev Chapter 28

21. Nationalism in an Age of Superpowers  Nationalism Unleashed  Letting Hungary fall  The Eisenhower Doctrine  Castro’s revolution in Cuba Chapter 28

22. Nationalism in an Age of Superpowers  The Response to Sputnik  Recognizing American weakness  National Defense Education Act Chapter 28

23. Nationalism in an Age of Superpowers  Thaws and Freezes  Berlin crisis  The U-2 incident Chapter 28

24. The Cold War Along a New Frontier  The Election of 1960  The Catholic issue Chapter 28

25. The Cold War Along a New Frontier  The Hard-Nosed Idealists of Camelot  Robert McNamara  The image of Kennedy Chapter 28

26. The Cold War Along a New Frontier  The (Somewhat) New Frontier at Home  The issues of taxation  Showdown with Big Steel Chapter 28

27. Kennedy’s Cold War  Cold War Frustrations  Bay of Pigs invasion  Kennedy and Vietnam  Diem falls Chapter 28

28. Kennedy’s Cold War  Confronting Khruschev  The Berlin Wall  A flexible nuclear response Chapter 28

29. Kennedy’s Cold War  Confronting Khruschev Chapter 28

30. Kennedy’s Cold War  The Missiles of October  A naval blockade  Nuclear test ban treaty Chapter 28