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The 1950’s
Rise of Modern America
• Credit Cards!• Color TVs!!• McDonalds!!!• Jet Flight!!!!
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Rise of Modern America 2
• National Highways• The Suburbs• Levittown
What up world?!?
• Democratic Capitalism vs. Totalitarian Communism
What up world ?!?
• Colonial Powers vs. Third World Nationalism
Korean Conflict
• Began in June,1950.• Armistice signed in 1953, however, official the
conflict is still unresolved.
Crisis in the Suez Canal• 1956• Gabal Abdel Nassar• He has big plans for Egypt and a Pan Arab
Movement!• The Aswan Dam.
Russia
• Khrushchev and De-Stalinization– Attempt to be less repressive
• Hungarian Revolt• Warsaw Pact– Response to NATO
Two words for the Cold War
• Containment
• Domino Theory
McCarthyism