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Chapter 28: The Suburban Era

Chapter 28: The Suburban Era.

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Chapter 28: The Suburban Era

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  1. Chapter 28: The Suburban Era Preview:“The culture of the automobile in many ways defined America at mid century. Superhighways encouraged newly prosperous Americans to move into suburban homes boasting green lawns and new televisions. The middle-class ‘consensus’ of an American dream revolved around single-family homes, religious observance of some sort, and women who cared for the family at home.” The Highlights: The Rise of the Suburbs The Culture of Suburbia The Politics of Calm Cracks in the Consensus Nationalism in an Age of Superpowers The Cold War on a New Frontier

  2. 28-2 The Rise of the Suburbs • A Boom in Babies and in Housing • The boom worldwide • Levittown, U.S.A. • Suburbs and Cities Transformed • Automobile became more indispensable with growth of suburbs • Interstate Highway Act of 1956 • Declining cities • Minorities and suburbs McGraw-Hill

  3. 28-3 McGraw-Hill

  4. 28-4 The Culture of Suburbia • American Civil Religion • The religious division • Billy Graham • The Howdy Doody Show • “Homemaking” Women in the Workaday World • Working women • Media images of women McGraw-Hill

  5. 28-5 • The Flickering Gray Screen • Television and politics • By 1959 live television was a thing of the past McGraw-Hill

  6. 28-6 The Politics of Calm • The Eisenhower Presidency • Modern Republicanism in practice • Farm policy • Eisenhower reelected • The Conglomerate World • Diversification became a new expansion strategy • Early computers McGraw-Hill

  7. 28-7 Cracks in the Consensus • Critics of Mass Culture • Many highbrow intellectuals worried openly about the homogenized lifestyle • David Riesman’s The Lonely Crowd • William Whyte’s The Organization Man • Juvenile Delinquency, Rock and Roll, and Rebellion • Teenage culture • The beat generation McGraw-Hill

  8. 28-8 Nationalism in an Age of Superpowers • To the Brink? • John Foster Dulles • The policy of massive retaliation • Brinksmanship in Asia • Taiwan and mainland China • Vietnamese victory at Dien Bien Phu McGraw-Hill

  9. 28-9 • The Superpowers • Nikita Krushvhev • Nationalism Unleashed • Nikita Khrushchev • The Eisenhower Doctrine • Castro’s revolution in Cuba McGraw-Hill

  10. 28-10 • The Response to Sputnik • American rockets were nicknamed “flopniks” and “kaputniks” • “Missile gap” • Thaws and Freezes • Controversy over Berlin • The U-2 incident • Eyewitness to History: Growing Up with the Threat of Atomic War McGraw-Hill

  11. 28-11 The Cold War on a New Frontier • The Election of 1960 • The Catholic issue • Nixon ran on his record as an experienced leader and staunch anti-Communist • Kennedy won by only 119,000 votes McGraw-Hill

  12. 28-12 • The (Somewhat) New Frontier at Home • Kennedy’s domestic legislative achievements were modest • Relations with business and big steel • Kennedy’s Cold War • Alliance for Progress • Peace Corps • Race to the moon • Cold War Frustrations • Bay of Pigs invasion • Kennedy and Vietnam • Diem falls McGraw-Hill

  13. 28-13 • Confronting Khrushchev • The Berlin Wall • A flexible nuclear response • The Missiles of October • A naval blockade • Nuclear test ban treaty McGraw-Hill

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