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Required Reading
Foner Chapter 24
Assignment
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What were the main characteristics of the affluent society of the 1950s?
How were the 1950s a period of consensus in both domestic policies and foreign affairs?
What were the major thrusts of the civil rights movement in this period?
What was the significance of the Presidential election of 1960?
Explain the meaning of the "American standard of living" during the 1950s.
Describe how the automobile transformed American and culture in the 1950s.
Identify the prescribed roles and aspirations for women during the social conformity of the 1950s.
How did governmental policies, business practices, and individual choices contribute to racially segregation suburbs?
Explain the ideological rifts between conservatives in the 1950s. Why did many view President Eisenhower as "not one of them"?
What was the new "social contract" between labor and management, and how did it benefit both sides as well as the nation as a whole?
How did the United States and Soviet Union shift the focus of the Cold War to the Third World?
WHat were the most significant factors that contributed to the growing momentum of the civil rights movement in the 1950s?
How did many southern whites, led by their elected officials, resist desegregation and civil rights in the name of "freedom"?
How and why did the federal government's concern with U.S. relations overseas shape its involvement with the Brown v. Board of Education case?