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| International Business Machines (IBM) |
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| A multinational technology company which grew dramatically with advances in computing. It served as the blueprint for modern technology companies. |
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| A sitcom which ran from 1952 to 1966 which became synonymous with the idealized 50's family life - at the center of which was the cult of domesticity. |
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| Betty Friedan, "The Feminine Mystique" |
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| A book which sparked a wave of feminism by challenging the role of housewife which many women occupied. |
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| McDonald's; Diner's Club; Disneyland |
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| A fast food franchise which sprang up in the 50's; The first independent credit card company; A theme park which served as a new form of entertainment. |
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| An Christian evangelist who used television as a forum for his sermons, reaching a vast audience. |
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| The "King of Rock", he was one of the most popular musicians of the 20th century and helped pioneer rock'n'roll. |
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| A female movie star who popularized new standards of sensuous sexuality. |
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| After establishing himself as a war hero by commanding the Allies in D-Day and other battles of WWII, he became the President in 1952 with running-mate Richard Nixon. |
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| An anticommunist crusader from Wisconsin who served there as senator. He accused people throughout government and other areas of communist sympathies, but finally went too far in accusing military officials of being communist. |
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| The practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence. |
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| The process of integrating separated races. It was the focus of the Civil Rights movement, and a landmark decision related to it was the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. |
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| A baseball player who broke the racial barrier in sports by securing a place on the Brooklyn Dodgers. |
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| A college-educated black seamstress who made history by taking a seat in the "whites-only" section of a Montgomery, Alabama bus and refusing to get up. Her arrest led to a year-long bus boycott and was a landmark moment in the Civil Rights Movement. |
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| An American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African American civil rights movement who followed the non-violent protest techniques of Mahatma Gandhi. |
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| The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who led the Brown v. Board of Education decision and pushed for an end to segregation. His decisions sparked resentment among many Americans. |
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| Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka |
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| A landmark Supreme Court decision that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. |
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| A 1954 operation by the US Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) to remove about one million illegal aliens from the southwest, focusing on Mexican nationals. It began partly thanks to the Mexican government's concern that illegal immigration was undermining the bracero program. |
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| A $27b plan to build over 42,000 miles of motorways across the US. It created countless construction jobs and sped the suburbanization of America. |
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| Little Rock Central High School |
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| The site of a forced school desegregation in which the "Little Rock Nine" (9 black students) were at first denied entry by the school, and then were permitted entry thanks to federal troop support. |
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