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Chapter 1 Origins of the Cold War 1 The Atomic Bomb (1945) 2 The Policy of Containment (1947) 3 The Truman Doctrine (1947) 4 A Critique of Truman’s Policies (1946) 5 A Soviet View of US Policy (1946) 6 The Prosecution of American Communists (1949) 7 The Red Scare (1950) 8 The Lavender Scare (1950) 9 A Defense of Civil Liberties (1952) Chapter 2 Postwar Society and Culture 1 The Growth of Suburbia (1949) 2 A Critique of Suburbia (1962) 3 Consumer Culture and the Home (1947) 4 Women’s Roles (1950) 5 Men’s Roles (1956) 6 The Beat Generation (1956)

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Chapter 3 The Black Freedom Struggle 1 A Protest against Bus Segregation (1954) 2 The Southern Manifesto (1956) 3 Remembering the Sit-In Demonstrations (1998) 4 Martin Luther King, Jr., and Nonviolent Direct Action (1963) 5 Women in the Civil Rights Movement (1964) 6 Black Nationalism (1964) 7 Economic Justice (1966)

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Chapter 4 Vietnam 1 The ‘‘Falling Domino’’ Principle (1954) 2 Escalation of the War (1964) 3 A Defense of the War (1965) 4 Experiencing the War (1965–70) 5 The Tet Offensive (1968) 6 Kent State Shootings (1970) 7 Vietnam Veterans Against the War (1971)

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Chapter 5 Politics and Protest in the 1960s 1 The Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) 2 Young Americans for Freedom (1960) 3 Students for a Democratic Society (1962) 4 The Hippie Counterculture (1967) 5 The Great Society (1965) 6 Cesar Chavez and la Causa (1966) 7 The American Indian Movement (2004) 8 Environmental Awareness (1962) 9 The Environmental Movement (1971)

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Chapter 6 Gender and Sexuality in the 1960s and 1970s 1 Second Wave Feminism (1963) 2 The National Organization for Women (1966) 3 Radical Feminism (1973) 4 The Gay Liberation Movement (1969) 5 Abortion Rights (1973) 6 Opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment (1977) 7 The Pro-Family Movement (1977)

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Chapter 7 Conservative Ascendance 1 The 1968 Election (1968) 2 The Crisis of Confidence (1979)

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The Religious Right (1980) A Critique of the Religious Right (1982) The Second American Revolution (1985) Life in the Rust Belt (1987) The Iran–Contra Investigation (1987) The End of Big Government (1996)

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Chapter 8 Society in the New Millennium 1 Recent Immigration (2006) 2 Organized Labor and ‘‘Undocumented’’ Immigrants (2000) 3 Affirmative Action (2003) 4 The Culture Wars (2003) 5 Family Income (1947–2003) 6 Hurricane Katrina: A View from New Orleans (2005) 7 Hurricane Katrina: A View from the White House (2006) 8 The War on Terrorism (2007) 9 The Internet and Political Activism (2004)

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Bibliography Index

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