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Hand-drawn clock-shaped house contrasting the suburban family ideal with paid jobs, caregiving, housework, shared family tasks, and the baby-boom generation aging.

The Baby Boom, Family Ideals and Women’s Paid Work

Study the baby boom, family ideals and women’s paid work for CLEP. Compare cohort timing, labor-force participation, employment and unpaid household care.

Hand-drawn house key over a metropolitan map showing suburban mortgages, racially unequal lending access, highway displacement, and urban community life.

Suburbs, Highways, Redlining and White Flight

Study suburbs, highways, redlining and white flight for CLEP. Compare mortgage rules, Shelley v. Kraemer, urban renewal and unequal metropolitan outcomes.

Hand-drawn veterans with a duffel bag unfolding into college, vocational training, and homeownership scenes, showing GI Bill opportunities and unequal institutional access.

The GI Bill, Higher Education and Postwar Mobility

Hand-drawn hourglass above Kennedy and advisers, reconnaissance photographs and a naval quarantine around Cuba, with Bay of Pigs and Berlin Wall scenes illustrating Cold War crisis decisions.

The Bay of Pigs, Berlin and the Cuban Missile Crisis

Hand-drawn journal bridge linking Kennedy’s New Frontier with Peace Corps teaching, student exchange, agricultural cooperation, and jazz diplomacy.

Kennedy’s New Frontier and Cold War Development Policy

Hand-drawn policy workbench showing collective bargaining under congressional restrictions, partial Fair Deal legislation, judicial limits, and Truman’s 1948 whistle-stop campaign.

Taft-Hartley, the Fair Deal and the Election of 1948

Hand-drawn hearing microphones, an accusing shadow, a magnifying glass over evidence, and affected employees illustrate McCarthyism and civil-liberties safeguards.

Loyalty Programs, HUAC, McCarthyism and Civil Liberties

Hand-drawn Eisenhower weighing military deterrence against civilian science and education, with Suez Canal diplomacy, Sputnik, students, and the space race.

Eisenhower’s New Look, Suez and the Space Race

Hand-drawn lenses reveal Iran’s oil-sovereignty dispute and Guatemala’s land reform, with local citizens, covert radio propaganda, and nonaligned diplomacy.

Decolonization, Iran, Guatemala and Covert Containment

Hand-drawn Korean War campaign map, integrated soldiers, displaced civilians, Truman and MacArthur, and armistice talks illustrate containment’s changing aims and limits.

Revolution in China and the Korean War

Hand-drawn Berlin airlift supplies unfold into an allied treaty handshake, defense-production workshop, and civil-defense shelter, tracing permanent containment capacity.

Berlin, NATO and NSC-68: Militarized Containment

Hand-drawn toolbox of grain, machinery, shipping, and technical aid alongside European reconstruction and Truman Doctrine assistance to Greece and Turkey.

Cold War Origins, the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan