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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 RollChapter 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 &II, the Rise of Dr. King, Desegregation Violence, Khrushchev on Television, and Ed GeinChapter 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 StrifeChapter 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 ProtestsChapter 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 8. 1952: More War, the Eisenhower Election and the Birth of Rock and RollChapter 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 &II, the Rise of Dr. King, Desegregation Violence, Khrushchev on Television, and Ed GeinChapter 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 StrifeChapter 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 ProtestsChapter 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