HST 296 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Social Democracy, Planned Economy, Missile Gap
Document Summary
Kitchen debate : between nixon and khrushchev at a model kitchen exhibition and it showed the cold war was now a competition between 2 ways of life. Biggest climaxes were the space race and cuban missile crisis. Today we know nixon was closer to the truth in the kitchen debate. We were so rich partly because of private enterprise and federal spending that kept us a superpower. Greatest usa population boom was in the west. Largely happened because of government projects like dams and defense related jobs like boeing. Many people were wary of the consumer, commuter culture emerging in the 1950s. Lots of people didn"t think uke was up to fight the cold war. good job of making the ussr seem prosperous. People weren"t sure who was winning, the usa or the ussr, because khrushchev was doing a. Khrushchev went about burying stalinization because the economy couldn"t handle it. Agriculture and consumer goods couldn"t be sacrificed for arms anymore.
