CHAPTER 28 – The Affluent Society

1. “THE ECONOMIC MIRACLE”

a. Sources of Economic Growth

b. The Rise of the Modern West

c. The New Economics

d. Capital and Labor

2. THE EXPLOSION OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

a. Medical Breakthroughs

b. Pesticides

c. Postwar Electronic Research

d. Postwar Computer Technology

e. Bombs, Rockets, and Missiles

f. The Space Program

3. PEOPLE OF PLENTY

a. The Consumer Culture

b. The Landscape and the Automobile

c. The Suburban Nation

d. The Suburban Family

e. The Birth of Television

f. Travel, Outdoor Recreation, and Environmentalism

g. Organized Society and Its Detractors

h. The Beats and the Restless Culture of Youth

i. Rock ‘n’ Roll

4. THE “OTHER AMERICA”

a. On the Margin of the Affluent Society

b. Rural Poverty

c. The Inner Cities

5. THE RISE OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

a. The Brown Decision and “Massive Resistance”

b. The Expanding Movement

c. Causes of the Civil Rights Movement

6. EISENHOWER REPUBLICANISM

a. “What Was Good for … General Motors”

b. The Survival of the Welfare State

c. The Decline of McCarthyism

7. EISENHOWER, DULLES, AND THE COLD WAR

a. Dulles and “Massive Retaliation”

b. France, America, and Vietnam

c. Cold War Crises

d. Europe and the Soviet Union

e. The U-2 Crisis

Essential Terms

The Following terms appear in the College Board's AP US History Curriculum Framework and, thus, may be used in questions on the AP exam. Students should become familiar with these terms and be able to define them in the context of ...

• World War II
• Vietnam
• Brown v Board of Education
• nuclear family
• containment
• decolonization
• military-industrial complex
• Sun Belt
• counterculture
• Korean War
• non-violent civil disobedience
• desegregation
• baby boom
• Latin America
• Middle East
• non-Communist regimes
• racial discrimination
• suburbanization
• social mobility
• mass culture
• conformity
• juvenile delinquency

FOCAL TERMS - The following terms are helpful in addressing the Key Concepts and Themes of the course.

• Allen Ginsberg
• Beats
• brinkmanship
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Dien Bien Phu
• Echo Park
• Elvis Presley
• Fidel Castro
• J.D. Salinger
• Jack Kerouac
• John Foster Dulles
• John Lewis
• Thurgood Marshall
• The Affluent Society
• rock and roll music
• Jonas Salk
• Levittown
• Martin Luther King Jr
• massive retaliation
• Michael Harrington
• Rosa Parks
• Saul Bellow
• Sputnik
• UNIVAC
• William H. Whyte Jr.
• William Levitt

HTS - Continuity and Change Over Time (Youth, Women, African Americans: 1776 - 1960)

• Instructions

Back to the Future

Peggy Sue Got Married

American Graffiti

Tail Gunner Joe

Citizen Cohn

High Noon

Chaplain

Quiz Show

The Blackboard Jungle

Rebel Without a Cause

On the Waterfront

I Love Lucy

Leave It To Beaver

Ozzie and Harriet

The Honeymooners

Father Knows Best