1. An Affluent Society,

2. The Golden Age

3. The Changing Society

4. The New Consumer Culture

5. The Interstate Highway System

6. The Eisenhower Era

7. The Election of 1952

8. Eisenhower’s Modern Republicanism

9. John Foster Dulles: Sec. of State Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD)
Massive Retaliation
John Foster Dulles: Sec. of State
Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD)

10. Khrushchev and Eisenhower
Eisenhower and the Russians
Khrushchev and Eisenhower
Nikita Khrushchev

11. Testing “Peaceful Coexistence”

12. The Cold War in the Third World
Mohammed Mossadegh: Iran
Jacobo Arbenz Guzman: Guatemala
Gamal Abdel Nasser: Egypt

13. Ho Chi Minh: North Vietnam Ngo Dinh Diem: South Vietnam
Origins of the Vietnam War
Ho Chi Minh: North Vietnam
Ngo Dinh Diem: South Vietnam
Divided Vietnam

14. John Kenneth Galbraith
Mass Society and its Critics
John Kenneth Galbraith
Hans J. Morganthau

15. Cultural Life in the 1950s
James Dean
Jack Kerouac

16. Elvis Presley

17. Television

18. Television

19. Television

20. Origins of the Civil Rights Movement

21. Legal Assault on Segregation
Thurgood Marshall: Attorney NAACP
Earl Warren: Chief Justice Supreme Court

22. The Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks

23. The Leadership of Martin Luther King Jr.

24. The Election of 1960

25. John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon

26. The Importance of Televised Debates

27. The Election of 1960 Map