Nation of Nations 3/e Davidson, Gienapp, Heyrman, Lytle, and Stoff
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KEY EVENTS

1947 Levittown construction begins: Arthur Levitt introduces mass production techniques to suburban houses

1950 David Riesman's The Lonely Crowd published: critique of corporate conformity and its effects

Kefauver crime hearings: television becomes more pervasive with programming like the investigation into organized crime

1952 Fertility rate in the United States reaches new high: "Baby Boom" generation produced by youthful marriages in the post war era

1953 Mossadeq overthown in Iran: nationalist toppled with the help of CIA

1954 Brown v. Board of Education: Supreme Court strikes down "separate but equal" doctrine

St. Lawrence Seaway Act: major public works project

CIA overthrows Arbenz in Guatemala: nationalist leader threatens U.S. corporate holdings

Geneva Summit: thaw in Cold War

1955 Montgomery bus boycott: protest begun that eventually ends bus segregation in that city

Elvis Presley ignites rock and roll: youth culture seen as threatening

1956 Interstate Highway Act: huge project to expand nation's highways

Eisenhower reelected: defeats Adlai Stevenson

Suez Crisis: U.S. intervenes to stop war in Egypt

"Southern Manifesto": Southern congressmen vow to reestablish legal segregation

1957 Sputnik launched: Soviet satellite first to reach outer space

Little Rock crisis: Faubus defies federal order

Eisenhower Doctrine: Eisenhower seeks free hand to resist Communism

1958 Richard Nixon attacked in Latin America: U.S. interventions protested

Marines sent into Lebanon: Eisenhower Doctrine invoked

Berlin Crisis: Kruschev demands allies withdraw from Berlin but later reverses the policy

National Defense Education Act: Congress responds to Sputnik fears

N.A.S.A. established: U.S. organizes missile and space program

1959 Castro seizes power in Cuba: nationalist revolution finds support from the Soviet Union

Khrushchev visits United States: Eisenhower seeks to improve U.S. relations with the Soviet Union

Soviet probe hits moon: demonstrate technological superiority

1960 Soviet Union captures CIA pilot: Eisenhower forced to admit U.S. is flying U-2 spy planes over the Soviet Union

Paris summit canceled: over U-2 incident:

1961 Eisenhower farewell address warns of military-industrial complex

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