Discuss the questions

1. Why was the Korean War a turning point in the Cold War?

2. How did television both transform daily lives and reinforce traditional middle-class values and gender norms in the 1950s?

3. McCarthyism: How was McCarthy able to build a national following and how was he brought down?

4. How was the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s both an endorsement and an indictment of American society in the decade?

5. Was the 1950s a decade of social liberalism or social conservatism? Was this a decade of change?