| A | B |
| The American '50s & '60s | big |
| Billy Graham | televangelist |
| American middle-class before the Depression | 30% of all Americans |
| American middle-class by mid-1950s | 60% of all Americans |
| Federal Housing Administration & Veterans Administration | made loan guarantees, funding growth of suburbs |
| Many middle-class Americans found the suburbs | sterile |
| The National Security Act | 1947 |
| Joint Chiefs of staff | leaders of each branch of the military |
| U.S. assumes role as global leader | 1945 |
| Big Mac | 1967 |