1. The 1950s

2. Winner The Election of 1952 Adlai Stevenson Democrat Dwight Eisenhower
Republican

3. Closing out the Korean War
“I will go to Korea.”
—Dwight D. Eisenhower

4. Closing out the Korean War
Panmunjon
Cease-fire signed, July 27, 1953

5. 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

6. Stalin dies, 1953.

7. Nikita Khrushchev becomes the new Soviet dictator.

8. Winner The Election of 1956 Adlai Stevenson Democrat Dwight Eisenhower
Republican

9. Sputnik, 1957

10. Eisenhower’s Domestic Policy
Maintained “New Deal” programs
Built interstate highway system

11. American Society and Culture in the 1950s

12. The Post-War Baby Boom

13. Dr. Benjamin Spock

14. Television

15. Bill Haley and the Comets
Rock & Roll
Bill Haley and the Comets
Elvis Presley

16. Growing Affluence

17. The Civil Rights Movement

18. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 1954
Chief Justice Earl Warren

19. The Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955-1956
Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King, Jr.

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