Affluence Suburbia Levittown USA Highway Act of 1956

Affluence

Suburbia Levittown, USA

Highway Act of 1956

Dwight D. Eisenhower “I Like Ike” 1953 -1961

1952 Election

Brinkmanship Sec. of State John Foster Dulles

End of Korea

SEATO

CENTO

Vietnam

Khrushchev (summit meetings)

American Intervention in Third World • • • Philippines (Magsaysay-anticommunist) Iran (Shah-anticommunist) Guatemala (Arbenz-socialist/nationalist) Cuba (Batista-anticommunist) Egypt (Nasser-nationalist) **

Nasserism and Suez Crisis (1956)

Hungarian Revolution-1956

Eisenhower Doctrine

Sputnik

NASA and the USS Nautilus

U-2 Incident

Civil Rights

MLK and Montgomery Bus Boycott

Civil Rights Act of 1957

American Indian Policy: Termination and Relocation

Eisenhower’s Farewell Address

Quote from Eisenhower’s Farewell Address • “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. • We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together. ”