Americans in the 1950s shared a common belief of postwar prosperity and anticommunists.

Atomic Bombs
Hydrogen Bombs
Nuclear Weapons

Anticommunists

Walterlee Chamber
Rosenberg
Alger Hiss was prisoned for 4 years for being suspected as a communist.

HUAC, the House of Un-American-like Activities violated to the Fifth Amendment, a right of privacy, when people refused to list the other names of the communists for the government.

Senator Joseph McCarthy listed 205 communist suspects in his blacklist. The McCarthy spreads: Professors, actors of Hollywood and the writers of Hollywood lost jobs.
Its Downfall: In the Army McCarthy Hearing in 1954, Eisenhower proved his innocence; since, McCarthy got drunk all the time. He watched TV and slept late in the evening and woke up late in the morning; he often was absent from the seat (he was condemned but the seat in the congress was remained for him still). He died as a broken hearted at his age of 48 that he drunken to death.
Consequences of McCarthyism: increased GNP from 45% to 60% from '45 to '60.
The increasing demands on housing and electricity applications and education.

William J. Levis
William J. Levi built 170,000 suburban bariogis, done by assembly line that they looks like the small crab houses in the frontier of New Jersey.
The suburban bariogis reduced the discrimination between the genders, ages, races, and it increased the interstate transportations and suburban housings.

GI Bill
A government loaned to the middle-class Americans who needed the housings.
The US government paid the fee for 4-years-college education to the soldiers who served in the military.

National Defense Education Act
Eisenhower invested scientists to create the powerful weapons or chemical weapons with federal money spent in 1954. The project was corrupted by the protest in 1964 before the Raw Chemical Cooperation, following the anti-war movement.

The Counterculture or the Rebellion Generation

Elvis Presley combined the black Jazz music of the '20s and he combined it with the blue songs of the whites and he introduced his music into the American society in the '50s and the '60s; the music advocate a struggle from the youth generation who wanted the black civil rights to be equal to the whites in the American society.

Jan Dean and Jack Kerouac, one of the writers wrote the book, On the Street, which book brought the children out of their comfortable home and spent their days and nights on the streets.