Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974 (136 page)

U.S. participation in,
167

North Korea (People's Democratic Republic),
118
,
151
,
207
,
208
,
215
–16

Norway,
15
,
167
n

Novak, Robert,
529

Nuclear weapons,
236
,
295

and arms race,
418
–20

and Cold War,
82
,
83
,
109
–110,
111
,
115
,
122
,
135

and Cuban missile crisis,
498
–502

development of,
8
,
90
,
93
,
110
,
118
–19

Eisenhower and,
248
,
287
,
489

and Goldwater,
558

hydrogen bomb,
173
–76

used against Japan,
5
,
7
,
108
–9,
110
–11,
276

and Kennedy,
489
–90

and Korean War,
207
,
223
–24,
228
,
233

non-proliferation treaty,
746

in popular culture,
408

and Quemoy and Matsu,
300
,
301

and radiation,
276
–77

SALT I,
747

Soviet development of,
118
,
169
,
172
,
176
,
203
,
205
,
263

test ban,
424

testing of,
6
,
107
,
108
,
110
,
168
,
175
,
176
n,
276
–77,
311
,
424
,
498
,
725

Truman and,
93
,
99

Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy
(Kissinger),
419

Nunn, Sam,
764
n

O'Brien, Lawrence,
459
,
544
,
737
,
772
,
773

cean Hill-Brownsville,
662

Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA),
727

Odetta,
483

O'Donnell, Kenneth,
459

Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO),
539
–40,
541
,
589
,
590
,
591
,
641
,
720

Office of Federal Contract Compliance,
642

Office of Price Administration,
144
–45,
147

Office of Strategic Services (OSS),
134

Office of War Information,
77

Office of War Mobilization,
111

Oil,
784
–85

O'Keeffe, Georgia,
37

Okinawa,
109

The Old Man and the Sea
(Hemingway),
345

Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act (1968),
651

Omnibus Housing Act (1961),
466

On the Beach
(film),
347

On the Road
(Kerouac),
409
–10

On the Waterfront
(film),
326
,
347

1,000,000 Delinquents
(Fine),
369

O'Neill, William,
688

Operation Dixie,
52
–53

Operation Mongoose,
498
,
506
,
507
,
508
,
509
,
519
,
520

Oppenheimer, J. Robert,
6
,
173
–74,
264
,
268
n

Organization of Afro-American Unity,
446
.
See also
Malcolm X

Organization of American States (OAS),
493
,
502
,
611

The Organization Man
(Whyte),
338

Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC),
784

The Origins of Totalitarianism
(Arendt),
237

Orwell, George,
237

Oswald, Lee Harvey,
518
,
519
–20,
521

The Other America
(Harrington),
444
,
533
–34

"Our Miss Brooks,"
364
–65

Pace College,
756

Page, Patti,
371

Pahlevi, Muhammad Reza Shah,
284
–85

Pakistan,
296
,
748

Palestine.
See
Israel

Palmer, A. Mitchell,
187

Parker, Charlie "Bird,"
30

Parker, Mack Charles,
412

Parks, Rosa,
400
–402,
404
,
408

Paths of Glory
(film),
347

Patterson, John,
547

Patton
(film),
455
,
718
,
754

Patton, George C.,
250
,
287
,
455

Paul, Alice,
37

Peace and Freedom party,
689
,
704
n

Peace Corps,
487
,
517
,
535

Peale, Rev. Norman Vincent,
332
–33,
339
,
439
,
456

A
Guide for Confident Living
,
332

The Power of Positive Thinking
,
332

Pearson, Levi,
387
,
399

Peck, Gregory,
347

Pells, Richard,
407

Pendergast, Thomas,
94
,
96
,
97
,
108

Pentagon Papers
,
635
,
756
–57

People's Republic of China.
See
China

Pepper, Claude,
53
,
120
,
128
,
156

Perkins, Frances,
36
,
462
n

Perkins, Milo,
542
–43

Perkins, Tony,
365

"Perry Mason,"
350

Peter, Paul and Mary,
445
,
483
,
583

Peterson, Esther,
462
n

Petry, Ann,
27

"Petticoat Junction,"
454

Peyton Place
(Metalious),
359
,
366

Philadelphia Plan,
723
–25

Philippines,
212
,
217
–18,
296
,
578

Phillips, Sam,
372

Pinky
(film),
347

Playboy
,
12
,
358
–59,
448

"Playhouse 90,"
349

Pleiku,
610

Podhoretz, Norman,
651

Point Four,
167
–68

Poitier, Sidney,
382

Pol Pot,
767

Poland: elections in,
86

immigration to U.S. from,
15
,
327

and Soviet Union,
85
,
111
,
121
,
308

and Stalin,
89
,
105
,
106
–7

Polaris missiles,
490
,
505
,
508

Police brutality,
663
,
664
,
667

Polio,
320

Polk, James,
243

Pollock, Jackson,
346

Poor People's March on Washington,
688

Pope John XXIII,
445

The Population Bomb
(Ehrlich),
726

Population, U.S.: African-Americans,
15
,
151
,
380
,
552

baby boom,
77
,
314

growth in South,
668

immigrants in,
15
–16,
578

Native Americans,
376
,
377

poverty,
534
,
721
–22