Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974 (140 page)

Sweatt v. Painter
(1950),
387

Sweden,
15
,
61

Switzerland,
61

Symington, Stuart,
419

Syria,
780

Taft, Robert: death,
273

and Thomas Dewey,
158

and Eisenhower,
252
,
265
,
270

and Korean War,
213
,
214

and Marshall Plan,
147

and Joseph McCarthy,
202
–3

and 1952 presidential election,
250
,
251

and Nixon,
719
,
741

re-elected to Senate,
223

Taft-Hartley Act,
50

and Truman Doctrine,
127

Taft, William Howard,
99
,
147

Taft-Hartley Act,
50
,
51
,
52
,
57
,
147
,
148
,
163
,
166
,
253

Taiwan: controlled by Chiang Kai-shek,
170

immigration to U.S. from,
578

and Korean War,
212

and General Douglas MacArthur,
218
,
232
–33

Quemoy and Matsu,
299
–30

and United Nations,
747

U.S. interest in,
172

U.S. support of,
235
,
747

Talmadge, Eugene,
25

Talmadge, Herman,
392
,
394

Taxation,
56
,
160
,
166
,
411
,
463
–65,
467
,
532
,
639
,
787
n

Taylor, Elizabeth,
360
,
365

Taylor, Glen,
120

Taylor, Maxwell,
289
–90,
510
–11,
601
,
610
,
613
,
614
,
683
–84,
769

The Uncertain Trumpet
,
422

Teamsters Union (International Brotherhood of Teamsters),
326
,
521

Technology: during 1940s,
8
,
64
,
67
,
173

during 1950s,
174
–75,
277
–78,
313
–14,
317
,
318
–20,
350
,
418

during 1960s,
453
,
637

Teheran Conference,
91
,
92

Television: advertising on,
712

and African-Americans,
31
,
351
,
385
,
654

and baby boom,
79
,
315

and civil rights movement,
414
,
480
,
581
,
689

and counterculture,
669

and Cuban missile crisis,
502

and education,
572

and Levittown,
73

and motion picture industry,
76

and McCarthy,
265
,
266
–67,
349

news,
446
–47,
450
,
460
n

political advertising on,
559
–60,
701

in politics,
165
,
256
–60,
305
,
349
,
352
–53,
436
,
460
,
701
,
706

and popular culture,
348
–55,
454

portrayal of family life,
80
,
740

presidential debates on,
352
,
437

and public taste,
343

quiz show scandals,
351
–52

Red Scare,
238

rise of,
344
,
348

and rising expectations,
538

sales of receivers,
70

sports,
453
,
454
,
689

and urban riots,
663

Vietnam War,
598
,
620
–21,
654
,
680

viewership,
10
,
348
,
349
,
351
n,
355
,
372
,
446
,
537
,
788

Watergate,
777
, depiction of women,
364
–65

Teller, Edward,
175

The Ten Commandments
(film),
347

The Tender Trap
(film),
364
,
365

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA),
94
,
159
,
167
,
270
,
558

Test Ban Treaty,
508

Tet Offensive,
678
–82,
690
,
709
,
752

Texas School Book Depository,
518

Thailand,
293
,
296

Them
(film),
239

Thieu, General Nguyen Van,
612
,
679
,
683
,
703
,
704
,
750
,
752
,
763
–64,
765
,
767
,
768

Tho, Le Due,
763
,
765

Thomas, J. Parnell,
189
,
190

Thomas, Norman,
42
,
138
,
161
,
186

Thoreau, Henry David,
402

Thurmond, J. Strom,
151
,
156
–57,
161
,
162
,
705
,
706
,
707
,
765
n

Till, Emmett,
395
–96

Tippitt, J. D.,
518
,
519

"Today Show,"
350
–51

Tojo,
501

"The Tonight Show,"
454

Tonkin Gulf Crisis,
602
–4,
620

Trans-World Airlines (TWA),
317

Trilling, Diana,
204

Trilling, Lionel,
12
,
357

Truman, Bess,
3
,
97
,
159

Truman, Harry S.,
3
,
91
,
243
,
460
,
525

and advisers,
98
–104,
105
,
110
,
122
,
124
–27,
130
,
209
,
212
,
233

attempted assassination of,
222

decision to use atomic bomb,
6
,
7
,
108
,
109
,
110
,
111
,
223
–24

and China,
512
,
602
,
746

and civil rights,
149
–50

and Cold War,
88
,
90
,
98
,
105
–136

corruption in administration,
254

domestic policy,
8
,
55
,
57
,
59
,
137
–64,
719

early years,
94
,
96
,
97

and 80th Congress,
147

and Eisenhower,
248
,
249

election of 1948,
138
–39,
148
,
260
,
438

and Fair Deal,
165
,
166

repudiation of foreign policy,
251

and J. Edgar Hoover,
188