The Postwar Years: The U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, 1950-59

Times were good in the 1950s. The US was at peace. World War II was an increasingly distant memory. Jobs were plentiful. People were moving from the cities to the suburbs. Television was replacing radio in the home. Rock and roll was overtaking big bands and crooners. Interstate highways were being...

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Published inUnited States Naval Institute. Proceedings Vol. 141; no. 1; p. 16
Main Author Dunn, Robert F
Format Trade Publication Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Annapolis United States Naval Institute 01.01.2015
Subjects
Cold War
Essays
Power
Presidents
World War II
Vietnam
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Summary:Times were good in the 1950s. The US was at peace. World War II was an increasingly distant memory. Jobs were plentiful. People were moving from the cities to the suburbs. Television was replacing radio in the home. Rock and roll was overtaking big bands and crooners. Interstate highways were being built and commercial jets were beginning to ply the skies. Eisenhower replaced Truman in the White House, and the Congress focused on ferreting out communists in government and in Hollywood. The draft was still in effect but except for the Korean War, most young men went about their business of getting educated or starting careers. Meanwhile, there were crises in such places as Lebanon, Suez, and the Tachen Islands, along with the French war in Vietnam, crises wherein the Navy and Marines were on station ready to do whatever the US President and the the US called for them to do.
ISSN:0041-798X