The Eisenhower Era

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The Fabulous, Fighting Fifties

 Consumer Culture

Spending Spree
Increased capital+increased supply=spending
Technological boom (IBM, Boeing)
White collars outnumber blue collars
 Consumer Culture

Rise of the Middle Class

Credit cards
Fast Food
Disneyland
Rock N’ Roll, Baseball, Playboy
 Politics
I Like Ike!
Wins off of war record
Enforces Supreme Court’s civil rights ruling
Paradoxical Policy?
More active than containment, but also called for a
cut in military spending
 Politics
McCarthyism
Red Scare
Kennedy vs. Nixon
Importance of TV
 Civil Rights
Brown vs. Board of Education
“To secure these rights”
Little Rock Nine
Desegregation

Operation Wetback
Massive roundup of illegal aliens
 Foreign Policy

Middle East
Iran-the CIA and the Shah
Egypt
Nasser and Pan-Arabism
Suez Crisis

Asia
Vietnam-French and Dienbienphu
 Foreign Policy

Cuba
Fidel Castro
Communism in our own backyard
 Social

Writing
Southern Renaissance: Faulkner, Robert Penn
Warren
Jewish Literature: JD Salinger, Bernard Malamud
Playwrights
Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller
 Social
Music
Elvis Presley
Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly
TV
Ed Sullivan Show
Ozzie and Harriet