The document provides an overview of major social, economic, and political developments in the United States during the period from 1945-1960. It mentions several key events such as the GI Bill, baby boom, suburbanization, civil rights movement led by MLK Jr., rise of rock music and youth culture, concerns about conformity, and economic growth amid issues of poverty and environmental costs.

1. BY: CLARA SANTOS Chapter 29: America At Midcentury 1945-1960

2. GI Bill of Rights

3. Full Employment Act

4. Council of Economic Advisors

5. Postwar inflation

6. Threatened railroad strike of 1946

7. Taft-Hartley Act

8. Baby boom

9. Post-World War II suburbanization

10. William Levitt

11. Highway Act of 1956

12. Practice of redlining

13. Harry Truman

14. Roosevelt's "Second Bill of Rights"

15. Progressive party

16. Dixiecrats

17. Presidential campaign and election of 1948

18. Fair Deal

19. Dwight Eisenhower

20. Dynamic conservatism

21. Sputnik

22. National Defense Education Act of 1957

23. Atomic Energy Act of 1954

24. Military-industrial complex

25. The vital center

26. Era of consensus

27. Venona project

28. Atomic civil defense program

29. Redbaiting

30. Truman's loyalty program (Employee Loyalty Program)

31. House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)

32. Hollywood Ten

33. Senator Joseph McCarthy

34. Internal Security Act of 1950 (McCarran Act)

35. Communist Control Act of 1954

36. Alger Hiss case

37. Ethel and Julius Rosenberg

38. Army-McCarthy hearings

39. To Secure These Rights

40. Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services

41. NAACP'S Legal Defense and Education Fund Charles Hamilton Houston Thurgood Marshall

42. Smith v. Allwright and Morgan v. Virginia Smith v Allwright Morgan v Virginia

43. Shelly v. Kramer

44. An American Dilemma, Native Son, and Black Boy

45. Jackie Robinson

46. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

47. Emmett Till

48. White Citizens Councils

49. Rosa Parks

50. Martin Luther King, Jr.

51. Montgomery Bus Boycott

52. Southern Christian Leadership Conference

53. Civil Rights Act of 1957

54. "The Treaty of Detroit"

55. Growth of the Sunbelt

56. The transistor

57. Emergence of a national middle class culture

58. Television

59. "Middle-classness" of television programming

60. Consumer culture

61. Post-World War II Religious Revival

62. Gender role in families of the 1950s

63. Dr. Spock

64. Modern Women: The Lost Sex

65. The "crisis of masculinity"

66. William H. Whyte

67. Dr. Alfred Kinsey

68. Hugh Hefner

69. "Youth culture"

70. Slinky, Mr. Potato Head, and Davy Crockett

71. Rock 'n' roll

72. Elvis Presley

73. The 1950s upsurge in juvenile delinquency

74. Critics of the 1950 conformity

75. Environmental costs associated with economic growth

76. Planned obsolescence

77. Silent Spring

78. Urban and rural poverty of the 1950s

79. National Housing Act of 1949

80. 1950s growth of agribusiness

81. Eisenhower's termination policy