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Chapter 29: The Suburban Era |
1950 The Lonely Crowd: David Riesman’s critique of corporate conformism published
1953 Mossadeq overthown: CIA helps topple Iranian nationalist
1954 Brown v. Board of Education: Supreme Court strikes down "separate but equal" doctrine
St. Lawrence Seaway Act: major public works project
Arbenz overthrown: CIA helps topple Guatemalan leader
1955 Montgomery bus boycott: eventually ends bus segregation
Elvis Presley: ignites rock and roll
Geneva summit: thaw in Cold War
1956 Interstate Highway Act
Suez Crisis
1957 Sputnik: Soviet satellite launched
Little Rock crisis: Faubus defies federal order
Eisenhower Doctrine: Eisenhower seeks free hand to resist Communism
1958 National Defense Education Act: Congress responds to Sputnik fears
1959 Fidel Castro seizes power in Cuba
Nikita Khrushchev visits United States
1960 U-2 incident: Soviet Union captures CIA pilot; Paris summit canceled
1961 Eisenhower farewell address: warns of military-industrial complex
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