American History: A Survey 10/e   Alan Brinkley
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Objectives

1. The strengths and weaknesses of the economy in the 1950s and early 1960s.

2. The changes in the American lifestyle in the 1950s.

3. The significance of the Supreme Court's desegregation decision and the early civil rights movement.

4. The characteristics of Dwight Eisenhower's middle-of-the-road domestic policy.

5. The new elements of American foreign policy introduced by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles.

6. The causes and results of increasing United States involvement in the Middle East.

7. The sources of United States difficulties in Latin America.

8. The reasons for new tensions with the Soviet Union toward the end of the Eisenhower administration.

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