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Decade in America which saw:

• America's emergence as a global power
• the Korean War
• the CIA's first real coup enacted in Iran
• the babyboom
• suburban sprawl
• the interstate was paved
• the rise of the fast food giants
• birth of the civil rights movement
• the consolidating of the military industrial complex
• first advisors to Vietnam
• burgeoning automobile industry
• Brown v. Board of Education
• a faith in America maybe not seen since
• the red scare