1950s

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