When Dwight Eisenhower became the president of the United States, he mainly emphasized the importance of army intelligence, due to this, he focuses on innovating technologies to enable the Central Intelligence Agency to gather more information about the USSR and its allies during the course of the Cold War.
In 1950s, popular cultures spread due to television and print media de-emphasizing women and other minorities. Idealized white people were presented with little (if any) allusion to diversity, poverty or conflicts (such as the Civil Rights Movement). Material values and compliance were things criticized by the counterculture; literature, the Beat movement and music (rock 'n' roll) came into conflict with the "tidy suburban view of life".