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Open Stax: Post War Prosperity and Cold War Fears 1945 1960: The American Dream eBookOpen Stax: Post War Prosperity and Cold War Fears 1945 1960: The American Dream eBook
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OpenStax
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11th - 12th
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Social Studies & History
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eBooks
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1360L
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Open Stax: Post War Prosperity and Cold War Fears 1945 1960: The American Dream

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Looks at the policies of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, both at home and abroad. Also examines changing gender roles in the 1950s, and the impact of suburbanization on America.

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dwight d. eisenhower, sputnik

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1952 presidential election, duck and cover, first satellite, gender roles in 1950s, growth of middle class, growth of suburbs, massive retaliation, post-war baby boom, suburbanization, eisenhower's new look strategy, levittown, mutually assured destruction, openstax: post-war prosperity and cold war fears 1945-1960: the american dream, president dwight d. eisenhower’s domestic and foreign policies, atomic bomb, post-world war ii america, move to suburbs, presidency of dwight d. eisenhower, women in the 1950s

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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