Introduction The Outbreak of the Korean War Scope of the U.S. Commitment Korea and Its Consequences A Seesaw War MacArthur’s assault on Inchon Crossing the 38th parallel Chinese intervention The Sacking of MacArthur MacArthur’s insubordination and removal Stalled peace negotiations Extending Containment Changing views the Sino-Soviet bloc the Communist threat as military and global Implementation A Sea Change in Defense Science Intensified support for military technology Development of the hydrogen bomb McCarthyism Senator McCarthy’s rise and methods His supporters The intensifying Red Scare They Liked Ike The Election of 1952 GOP nominee: Dwight Eisenhower Democratic nominee: Adlai Stevenson Nixon’s "Checkers" speech Eisenhower’s television ads Republican victory Eisenhower the Centrist Biography and style Approach to foreign policy Ending the Korean War Terms of the cease-fire Casualties and other costs Dealing with McCarthyism Eisenhower’s anti-Communism Red-baiting Oppenheimer The Army-McCarthy hearings McCarthy’s censure Accommodating to the Welfare State Eisenhower’s philosophy on domestic affairs Environmental policy Preserving the New Deal/Fair Deal The Election of 1956 Eisenhower and the World The "New Look": Massive Retaliation Rockets and Missiles Strategic nuclear weapons Tactical nuclear weapons Staying Ahead of the Soviets U-2 flights Minuteman missiles Submarine-based missiles Arms Control Initiatives "Atoms for Peace" "Open Skies" Demand for a Test Ban The Lucky Dragon incident Growing fears about health risks Calls for a limited test ban Superpower Shift A Shifting Focus The Hungarian revolution Vying for the Third World Securing the Third World: The CIA The Philippines Iran Guatemala The Suez Crisis and the Middle East The Suez crisis The Eisenhower Doctrine Worries over Indochina The Vietminh’s struggle against the French Eisenhower’s "Domino Theory" Subverting the Geneva accords Security in Southeast Asia Formation of SEATO The Formosa Resolution The Cold War, Technology, and the Economy "Military Keynsianism" Scope of defense expenditures Impact on the South and West The interstate highway system Defense and Technical Competitiveness Civilian Spinoffs Impact on various industries Development of the transistor Computers High-speed digital computers Real-time computers Magnetic core memory IBM Agriculture Farm technologies and federal policy The trend towards agribusiness Impact on southern agriculture "The Golden Age Is Now" 1950s Prosperity: Reasons and Measures Health Prescription drugs Vanquishing polio Labor Improved benefits and working conditions Decline in union militancy Diminishing power of unions Women and Work Cultural messages against women working The embrace of domesticity Growing discontent Women in the workforce Migrations and the Melting Pot Migration to the Sunbelt The Flight from Downtown Cheap suburban housing Federal housing and tax policy The impact on cities Suburbia and Assimilation Asian Americans Changes in immigration law Continuing discrimination Generational conflict The Revival of Religion Reasons for revival churches as social centers television and mass mailings Tone of revival Religion and anti-Communism Outcasts of Affluence Continuing Poverty Hispanic Americans Puerto Ricans Mexican Americans Native Americans State voting rights "Termination" and "relocation" African Americans Racial integration of the armed forces Migration from the South Housing discrimination in the North Job discrimination in the North Stirrings for Civil Rights Factors Encouraging Protest End of McCarthyism Returning black veterans Television Growing black urban middle class Brown v. Board of Education The Montgomery Bus Boycott White Resistance Southern resistance to school integration Antiblack violence Founding of the SCLC Growing white support for civil rights Eisenhower’s views