Eisenhower's critics accused him of doing little to stop McCarthyism. This gave him the reputation of allowing a climate to flourish in which anyone with opinions different from the majority was attacked.
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Conformity
1950s
Many social critics in the 1950s criticized Americans for their conformity. The 1950s were a time of consumerism and everyone wanted to fit in and realize the American Dream.
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