134
M
MacArthur, General Douglas, 50, 52, 54,
56–58
Manhattan Project, 19, 69
Mao Zedong, 21, 31, 52
Marshall, Thurgood, 98
Marshall Plan, the, 24–25
Marxism, 61, 62
McCarran, Patrick, 71
McCarran–Walter Immigration Act
(1952), 72
McCarthy, Joseph R., 67–69, 73–74
McDonald’s, 79
Meredith, James H., 106
middle class, the, 93
Middle East Treaty Organization (METO),
84
migration, 79
military spending, 61, 81, 89
Molotov, Vyacheslav, 20, 71
Montgomery, boycott in, 98–100
Mosaddeq, Mohammad, 84
“multiple untruth, the”, 73
music, 95
N
Nagasaki, 21
Nagy, Imre, 85
Nasser, General Gamal Abdel, 84
National Security Council (NSC),
32–33
National System of Interstate and
Defense Highways Act (1956), 78–79
NATO See North Atlantic Treaty
Organization
“New Frontier”, 103–107
Ngo Diem, 114, 115
Nixon, Richard, 66, 67, 73, 86, 102
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
(NATO), 29–30, 72
Nuclear Arms Race, 15, 31–32, 67, 69,
81
nuclear weapon sites, U.S., 10–11
O
Oswald, Lee Harvey, 114–116
P
Pahlavi, Shah Reza, 84
Parks, Rosa, 98
Peace Corps, 104
Pearl Harbor, attack on (1941), 13
Pendergast, Tom, 43
population growth, 89
Potsdam Conference (1945), 20–21, 29
Presidential Succession Act (1947), 39–40
Project Ajax, 84
Puerto Rico, 55
“Pumpkin Papers”, 66
R
racial discrimination, 41, 48, 93, 97–100,
104–107
Ridgway, General Matthew, 58
road system, improvements in, 78–79, 91
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 14, 16, 17,
18–19, 42
Rosenberg, Julius and Ethel, 69–71
Russia See Soviet Union
S
satellites, 82–83
Schine, G. David, 73
schools, segregation in, 97–98, 100
Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (1944), 36
Shepard, Alan, 104
“sit-ins”, 106
Smith Act (1940), 73
social security, 77, 104
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
(SEATO), 83–84
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference (SCLC), 100, 106, 108
Soviet Union, 7, 85–87
division of Germany
, 21, 110–111
end of the “Grand Alliance”, 14–22
Korea, 49, 51–52
Index
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