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Content and definitions provided to assist the student in an examination of the political and cultural climate in America through the 1950s and 1960s. Information focuses on Civil Rights, Eisenhower's policies, dynamic conservatism and the role of McCarthyism in influencing America's view of Communism.

What was the impact of McCarthyism in the US?
What is dynamic conservatism?
What is meant by the term politics of consensus?
How did consumerism change during the Eisenhower administration?
How did the Civil Rights Movement begin in the 1950s?
How did the US become involved in Southeast Asia?


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Influenced by this global context of the early 1950s, most Americans agreed that the Soviet Union and Communist China were a serious threat to the American way of life.  McCarthy enjoyed a rapid rise to power, albeit for only a short period, through an anti-communist campaign that played upon the general paranoia that Communists were in our midst and would destroy the US.

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