Read Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974 Online
Authors: James T. Patterson
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and John Foster Dulles,
283
during 1950s,
261
and Eisenhower,
279
and Equal Rights Amendment,
37
and federal government,
184
and Hollywood,
189
–90,
203
,
238
–40
House Committee on Un-American Activities,
113
and Joseph McCarthy,
178
–87,
202
John Birch Society,
408
and Kennedy,
486
–87
and liberals,
120
and 1948 election,
157
and Stalin,
90
and Taft-Hartley Act,
51
–53
and Truman,
167
and Truman Doctrine,
126
–29
Anti-war movement,
735
and active resistance,
630
and invasion of Cambodia,
751
,
754
–55
Mobilization Day,
753
–54
in popular culture,
626
and young people,
621
–23,
627
–29
and women,
645
Aptheker, Herbert,
627
Area Redevelopment Act (1961),
467
Arendt, Hannah,
237
Argonne Laboratory,
522
Arlington National Cemetery,
317
–18
Arnaz, Desi,
350
Arthur, Chester Alan,
243
Ashe, Arthur,
382
Asian-Americans,
16
,
377
–78,
379
,
380
,
406
Atkinson, Brooks,
120
Atomic bomb.
See
Nuclear weapons
Atomic Energy Commission (AEC),
173
,
264
,
276
,
278
Atoms for Peace,
280
Attlee, Clement,
224
Automobile industry: and baby boom,
79
and Interstate Highway Act,
274
,
316
post-war boom in,
8
,
10
,
61
,
70
–71
style changes in,
345
and United Automobile Workers,
41
,
44
and U.S. economy,
783
Autry, Gene,
12
Baby boom: and birth rates,
77
–78
and economic growth,
314
–15
and marriage,
361
and rising expectations,
323
,
637
–38
and sexual revolution,
671
Baby Doll
(film),
359
–60
Bacall, Lauren,
190
Baker, Bobby,
529
Baker v. Carr
(1962),
565
Balaguer, Joaquin,
611
Baldwin, James,
345
,
468
,
552
,
654
Nobody Knows My Name
,
384
Ball, George,
258
,
501
,
601
,
683
–84
Ball, Lucille,
349
,
350
,
351
,
365
,
454
n
Banfield, Edward,
651
–52
Baraka, Imanu Amiri.
See
Jones, LeRoi
Barenblatt v. U.S
. (1959),
418
Barkley, Alben,
138
–39,
144
,
156
,
160
,
228
Barnard, Christian,
453
Barth, Karl,
403
Bartlett, Charles,
516
Baruch, Bernard,
119
Bay of Pigs invasion,
492
–97,
498
,
499
–500,
504
,
506
,
507
,
510
,
514
,
517
The Beach Boys,
626
Beckwith, Byron De La,
481
–82n
Beck, Dave,
326
Belgian Congo,
286
Belgium,
167
n
The End of Ideology
,
339
Bellow, Saul,
345
"Ben Casey,"
319
Ben-Hur
(film),
329
Bennett, Tapley,
611
Berle, Milton,
349
Berlin (city),
424
–25,
427
,
429
,
497
–98,
501
–2,
517
Berlin Blockade/Airlift,
134
,
160
,
170
,
183
,
286
Bernstein, Carl,
774
Bernstein, Leonard,
238
,
373
,
476
Berrigan, Rev. Philip,
630
Bertolucci, Bernardo,
711
Bessie, Alvah,
190
The Best and the Brightest
(Halberstam),
614
The Best Years of Our Lives
(film),
14
,
15
"The Beverly Hillbillies,"
454
Beyond the Melting Pot
(Glazer & Moynihan),
328
Biden, Joseph,
764
n
Birch Society.
See
John Birch Society
Birmingham: and FBI,
476
–77
freedom rides,
469
labor organizing in,
53
segregation in,
382