A long Cold War : a chronology of American life and culture 1945 to 1991 / Jerry Carrier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carrier, Jerry, 1948- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular culture--United States--History--20th century--Chronology.

Popular culture.

Cold War--Influence.

Cold War.

United States--History--1945---Chronology.

United States.

United States--Civilization--1945-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (518 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Algora Publishing, [2018]

Summary:

"This is the story of America at her peak: a world power deluging the population with consumer goods and entertainment to distract from the fear of nuclear war and the hyper competition with the USSR and China. It allows the reader to understand the impacts of the Cold War on American culture, psyche and politics. A Long Cold War is cultural history covering 1945-1991. Written in an almanac or journal form, it gives the reader details about daily life and international events, from the headlines as they happened and with summaries of average salaries and prices, and the books, music, movies and television shows of the times. It is a good read for the history-minded and the casual reader as well, in its entirety or as a trip down Memory Lane for those with nostalgia for specific years."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Foreword

Introduction: V is for Victory

A Note about the Cold War

Chapter 1. 1945: Peace at Last, the American Boys Came Home

Chapter 2. 1946: The Best Years of Our Lives

Chapter 3. 1947: The Hunger Winter

Chapter 4. 1948: A Year of Independence, India, Israel and Others

Chapter 5. 1949: The People's Republic Won the Civil War in China and the USSR Developed the Bomb.

Chapter 6. 1950: Credit Cards, Korean War, McCarthyism, and Duck and Cover

Chapter 7. 1951: General MacArthur was Fired and the Korean Peace Negotiations Began

Chapter 8. 1952: More War, the Eisenhower Election and the Birth of Rock and Roll

Chapter 9. 1953: The Korean Conflict Ended, Americans in Vietnam, Communist Xenophobia Peaked, and Color Television

Chapter 10. 1954 : Vietnam, Disneyland, the Disgrace of Joe McCarthy, and the Stock Market Finally Returned to the Pre-crash 1929 High.

Chapter 11. 1955: In God We Trust, Civil Defense, Hurricanes, Davy Crockett, Emmet Till and Rosa Parks

Chapter 12. 1956: School Desegregation Violence, Eisenhower Re-elected, the Hungarian Revolt, and Rock and Roll is Here to Stay.

Chapter 13. 1957: Sputnik I &amp

II, the Rise of Dr. King, Desegregation Violence, Khrushchev on Television, and Ed Gein

Chapter 14. 1958: Natural Born Killers, the Fraud of Charles Van Doren, Castro's Cuba and Other Latin American Problems, and Independence in Africa

Chapter 15. 1959: Castro's Cuba, the Dawn of Electronics, the Day the Music Died, Barbie, Astronauts, and the Ho Chi Minh Trail

Chapter 16. 1960: Birth Control, US Troops in Vietnam, the founding of the Viet Cong, the US Plans to Destroy Cuba, Sit-Ins and Kennedy Elected

Chapter 17 1961: JFK, the Berlin Wall, the Bay of Pigs Invasion, and Civil Rights and More Racial Strife.

Chapter 18. 1962: Nuclear Testing, the Space Race, and the Cuban Missile Crisis

Chapter 19. 1963: The Turning Point of the Civil Rights Movement and the Kennedy Assassination

Chapter 20. 1964: Vietnam, the Civil Rights Act, the Beatles, Muhammad Ali, and Topless Swim Suits

Chapter 21. 1965. Vietnam Became America's War

Chapter 22. 1966: Vietnam Escalation, Civil Rights and Riots, and the Beatles vs. Jesus

Chapter 23. 1967: Hippies, the Summer of Love, the Summer of Race Riots, and Vietnam Protests

Chapter 24. 1968: The Violent Year: The Assassinations of King and Kennedy, Riots, Nixon Committed Treason and the Tet Offensive

Chapter 25. 1969: Men on the Moon, Woodstock, the Mega Concerts, the Internet, Environmental and Gay Rights Movements, and Hamburger Hill

Chapter 26. 1970: A year of Violence, Kent State, the Weathermen, More Black Panthers, Police Brutality, Racial Unrest, and the Invasion of Cambodia

Chapter 27. 1971: The Dawn of the Digital Age, More Vietnamization, CO-INTELPRO Exposed, the Troubles in Northern Ireland, and the Indo-Pakistani War

Chapter 28. 1972: Watergate, Paris Peace Talks, the Birth of Financial Derivatives and Recombinant DNA

Chapter 29. 1973: The End of the US Involvement in the Vietnam War, Cell Phones, More Watergate and The Energy Crisis

Chapter 30. 1974: Nixon Resigned, the Energy Crisis, Recession and Inflation

Chapter 31. 1975: The Church Committee, the Collapse of South Vietnam, and the Near Bankruptcy of NYC

Chapter 32. 1976: The Bicentennial, Tiananmen Square, Legionnaires Disease, and the 1976 Election

Chapter 33. 1977: Jimmy Carter Took Office, CIA's Mind Control Program Revealed, and Elvis Died

Chapter 34. 1978: The Camp David Accords, Jonestown, Serial killers and The First Test Tube Baby.

Chapter 35. 1979: Three Mile Island, the Hostage Crisis, the Sino-Vietnamese War and Happy Meals

Chapter 36. 1980: the 1980 Election, Reagan and Bush Commit Treason, and the Beginning of the Iran-Iraq War

Chapter 37. 1981: Assassination attempts on Reagan, Sadat and the Pope, the Space Shuttle and El Salvador

Chapter 38. 1982: The Time Magazine Man of the Year was a Computer, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Solidarity, Nuclear Protests and Plans for a Nuclear War

Chapter 39. 1983: A Close Call with Nuclear War, War in Grenada, Truck Bombs in the Mideast, and a Troubled Economy

Chapter 40. 1984: The Election, the Beginnings of the Iran-Contra Scandal, the Bhopal Disaster, Ethiopia Starves, and the Space Shuttles and Soyuz

Chapter 41. 1985: The Year of the Spy, A Record-setting Cold Winter and Windows

Chapter 42. 1986: The Challenger Shuttle Disaster, Chernobyl, the Iran-Contra Scandal and the Carter Center

Chapter 43. 1987: More Iran Contra Scandal, Trouble in the Persian Gulf, and a National March for Gay and Lesbian Rights

Chapter 44. 1988: the 1988 Election, the S&amp

L Scandal, and Record Sales in Art Works

Chapter 45. 1989: Protests in the Eastern Bloc, Mall of America, Black Friday and the Invasion of Panama

Chapter 46. 1990: The Birth of the World Wide Web, the Unification of Germany and Iraq's Invasion of Kuwait

Chapter 47. 1991: The Gulf War, the Tailhook Scandal, the Fall of Communism and the End of the Soviet Union

Epilogue

Notes on References

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Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62894-320-3