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1 AP US History 1940s/1950s Last remaining domestic details (and a couple foreign details)

2 Servicemen’s readjustment Act, 1944 (GI Bill)

3 Taft-Hartley Act, 1947

4 “Dewey Defeats Truman”—NOT!

5 Eisenhower as president, 1952-1961

6 Military-industrial complex

7 SEATO (1954)

8 Operation Wetback, 1954

9 “Indian New Deal”--further implementation

10 Suez Canal crisis (1956)

11 Alaska and Hawaii become states (1959)

12 OPEC (1960)

13 Women’s roles and “Leave it to Beaver”

14 Baby boom

15 Levittowns, suburbanization/white flight

16 Public housing, white flight

17 Television, etc.

18 Organization man, gray flannel suit conformity

19 Playboy Magazine, McDonalds (1950s)

20 Sunbelt

21 Rustbelt


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