congress, problems facing a president who came into office first as the result of a tragedy and who then had to contend with competing interests in the postwar era. Truman attempted to reshape American society in a way that would be more equitable and fair to the different factions in American society, and the 1950s would continue this effort as different groups in American society, such as the blacks, would seek to improve their position and change the nature of how they are treated by society at large.
The fifties are called the age of Ike, and this was a period of prosperity, population growth, and population shift from the cities to the suburbs. This was an era of relative peace as far as shooting wars were concerned, but it was not a peaceful period in terms of the fear and paranoia that infected society because of the Communist threat, both real and perceived. This era was also marked by growing dissatisfaction among different groups in society, such as blacks who started
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