This volume serves as an invaluable guide to key political, social, and cultural concepts of the 1950s.

• Provides rigorously and thematically tags of encyclopedic entries, period chronology, and primary documents for ease of reference

• Serves as a valuable reference source for a key period of American History

• Offers features that will help readers understand the period better, including sample Documents Based Essay Question and Top Tips for answering Documents Based Essay Questions