Roark Johnson Cohen Stage Hartmann Lawson The American

Roark • Johnson • Cohen • Stage • Hartmann • Lawson The American Promise: A History of the United States Fourth Edition CHAPTER 27 The Politics and Culture of Abundance 1952– 1960 Copyright © 2009 by Bedford/St. Martin’s

Eisenhower and the Politics of the “Middle Way” • Modern Republicanism • Termination and Relocation of Native Americans • The 1956 Election and the Second Term

Liberation Rhetoric and the Practice of Containment • • The “New Look” in Foreign Policy Applying Containment to Vietnam Interventions in Latin America and the Middle East The Nuclear Arms Race

New Work and Living Patterns in an Economy of Abundance • • Technology Transforms Agriculture and Industry Burgeoning Suburbs and Declining Cities The Rise of the Sun Belt The Democratization of Higher Education

The Culture of Abundance • • Consumption Rules the Day The Revival of Domesticity and Religion Television Transforms Culture and Politics Countercurrents

Emergence of a Civil Rights Movement • African Americans Challenge the Supreme Court and the President • Montgomery and Mass Protest

Chapter 27 The Politics and Culture of Abundance: 1952– 1960 • • • Map 27. 1 The Interstate Highway System, 1930 and 1970 (p. 986) Map 27. 2 The Rise of the Sun Belt, 1940– 1980 (p. 1000) Figure 27. 1 The Postwar Economic Boom: GNP and Per Capita Income, 1945– 1970 (p. 1003) Global Comparison: The Baby Boom in International Perspective (p. 1005) Indian Relocation (p. 987) The Age of Nuclear Anxiety (p. 995) Technology Transforms Agriculture (p. 996) Poverty in an Era of Abundance (p. 997) Advertising Home Air-Conditioning (p. 1001)