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BY: CLARA SANTOS
Chapter 29:America At Midcentury 1945-
1960
GI Bill of Rights
Full Employment Act
Council of Economic Advisors
Postwar inflation
Threatened railroad strike of 1946
Taft-Hartley Act
Baby boom
Post-World War II suburbanization
William Levitt
Highway Act of 1956
Practice of redlining
Harry Truman
Roosevelt's "Second Bill of Rights"
Progressive party
Dixiecrats
Presidential campaign and election of 1948
Fair Deal
Dwight Eisenhower
Dynamic conservatism
Sputnik
National Defense Education Act of 1957
Atomic Energy Act of 1954
Military-industrial complex
The vital center
Era of consensus
Venona project
Atomic civil defense program
Redbaiting
Truman's loyalty program (Employee Loyalty Program)
House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
Hollywood Ten
Senator Joseph McCarthy
Internal Security Act of 1950 (McCarran Act)
Communist Control Act of 1954
Alger Hiss case
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
Army-McCarthy hearings
To Secure These Rights
Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services
NAACP'S Legal Defense and Education Fund
Charles Hamilton HoustonThurgood Marshall
Smith v. Allwright and Morgan v. Virginia
Smith v Allwright
Morgan v Virginia
Shelly v. Kramer
An American Dilemma, Native Son, and Black Boy
Jackie Robinson
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Emmett Till
White Citizens Councils
Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Civil Rights Act of 1957
"The Treaty of Detroit"
Growth of the Sunbelt
The transistor
Emergence of a national middle class culture
Television
"Middle-classness" of television programming
Consumer culture
Post-World War II Religious Revival
Gender role in families of the 1950s
Dr. Spock
Modern Women: The Lost Sex
The "crisis of masculinity"
William H. Whyte
Dr. Alfred Kinsey
Hugh Hefner
"Youth culture"
Slinky, Mr. Potato Head, and Davy Crockett
Rock 'n' roll
Elvis Presley
The 1950s upsurge in juvenile delinquency
Critics of the 1950 conformity
Environmental costs associated with economic growth
Planned obsolescence
Silent Spring
Urban and rural poverty of the 1950s
National Housing Act of 1949
1950s growth of agribusiness
Eisenhower's termination policy
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