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The Fifties Age of Anxiety and Maturity
A sweeping AP essay reviews the 1950s as a struggle between fear and hope. It traces Cold War shocks from Korea to Sputnik, desegregation battles, McCarthyism, and political shifts, then notes rising prosperity, suburban growth, and a crisis of confidence that defined America's Age of Maturity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Moscow
Peiping
Western Europe
West Germany
United Kingdom
United States
Japan
Orient
Middle East
Latin America
South Korea
Parallel 38
America
Russia
Congress
Dien Bien Phu
Vietnam
Malaya
Philippines
Josef Stalin
John Foster Dulles
Malenkov
Bulganin
Eisenhower
Geneva
NATO
SEATO
Baghdad
Europe
Washington
Sputnik
Lunik
Khrushchev
Berlin
James Hagerty
White House
Nixon
Atty. Gen. Rogers
Rayburn
D-Tex
Herter
Oskar Morgenstern
New York
Sherman Adams
Charles van Doren
van Doren
Hans J. Morgenthau
Chicago