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-Dwight consolidates the New Deal

-More labor unrest in the 1950s
-Taft-Hartley Act of 1947
-AFL and CIO combine, 35% of all nonagricultural workers
-social contract
-unionized workers get most benefits, although some spillover, like min
wage
-1959 500,000 steel worker strike
-US + USSR H-Bomb in 1952
-Ike hated war, but Sec of State Foster Dullies -> massive retaliation =
respond to attacks, with nukes
-18,000 nukes by 1960
-Fear of war
-53, Stalin dies, Korean war ends
-Khrushchev details Stalins crimes
-calls for peaceful coexistence
-Soviets put down anticommunist revolution in Hungary
-Ike doesnt respond
-59, soviets shoot down a U-2 spy plane
-Third World, neither East nor West
-Decolonization
-Isreal France and Britain invade Egypt over Suez Canal
-Eisenhower doctrine extends containment to the middle east
-Vietnam
-US help france preserve their asain empire
-we dont send troops, France agrees to Vietnams independence
-Vietnam split, south Ngo Dinh Diem anticommunist, north, Ho Chi
Minh communism
-people bothered by Diems ties to wealth
-Social critics of US
-New accumulations of power
-We spend money on goods but not schools, and force women into
roles while the Soviets celebrate their accomplishments
-baby boom -> generation of teenagers to appeal to
-juvenile delinquency craze
-The beats, poets against mainstream culture
-young have more open, flashy, jarring lifestyle/attitude