HIST 376: Cold War America

Explores the variety of ways that Americans experienced the early Cold War, the period from the end of WWII to the presidency of JFK. Addresses the question of how the Cold War changed American politics and culture by examining the construction of the Cold War order, both at home and abroad, through the politics of international confrontation, the Korean War, McCarthyism, and the policies of the Truman and Eisenhower administrations, as well as such social developments as consumerism and suburbanization, the feminist movement, the nascent counterculture, and the civil rights movement. Offered by History & Art History. Limited to three attempts.