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| 4146641728 | Transistor | -Invented in 1948 -Sparked an electronic revolution | 0 | |
| 4146641729 | Strategic Air Command | -Created by Eisenhower -Designed long-range planes and tactical aircraft such as the B-52 bomber | 1 | |
| 4146641730 | Boeing Company | -Designed the first large passenger jet (1957) -Created the first presidential jet (1959) which was a specially modified 707 known as Air Force One ~First user was Dwight D. Eisenhower | 2 | |
| 4146641731 | Cult of domesticity | -term given to the lifestyle of women in the household as wives and mothers -Promoted by television programs ~"Ozzie and Harriet" ~"Leave it to Beaver" | 3 | |
| 4146641732 | Pink-collar ghetto | -term given to the jobs assumed by women in roles such as clerical workers and service work | 4 | |
| 4146641733 | Betty Friedan | -Feminist -Wrote, "The Feminine Mystique" | 5 | |
| 4146641734 | The Feminine Mystique | -Book by Betty Friedan -Launched modern women's movement -Talked of the stifling boredom of suburban housewifery | 6 | |
| 4146641735 | Billy Graham | -Baptist televangelists | 7 | |
| 4146641736 | Oral Roberts | -Pentecostal Holiness televangelist | 8 | |
| 4146641737 | Fulton J. Sheen | -Roman Catholic televangelist | 9 | |
| 4146641738 | Elvis Presley | -Born in Tupelo, Missouri in 1935 -Created rock 'n' roll -His music was prevalent in the 1950s | 10 | |
| 4146641739 | Marilyn Monroe | -Popularized sensuous sexuality -posed for Playboy in its first issue in 1953 | 11 | |
| 4146641740 | Playboy | -Started in 1953 -Created by Hugh Heffner | 12 | |
| 4146641741 | David Riesman | -Wrote "The Lonely Crowd" -Harvard sociologist | 13 | |
| 4146641742 | William H. Whyte, Jr. | -Wrote "The Organization Man" | 14 | |
| 4146641743 | Sloan Wilson | -Wrote "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit" | 15 | |
| 4146641744 | John Kenneth Galbraith | -Wrote "The Affluent Society" -Harvard economist | 16 | |
| 4146641745 | Presidential Election of 1952 | -Democratic nominee was Adlai E. Stevenson ~Former governor of Illinois -Republican nominee was Dwight D. Eisenhower ~Running Mate was Richard M. Nixon | 17 | |
| 4146641746 | Checkers Speech | -Nixon's response during the 1952 Presidential campaign to accusations of accepting illegal campaign donations | 18 | |
| 4146641747 | Thirty-eigth parallel | -Divide between North Korea and South Korea following the Korean War | 19 | |
| 4146641748 | Joseph R. McCarthy | -Republican senator from Wisconsin -Falsely accused many people of being communists -Died in 1957 of chronic alcoholism | 20 | |
| 4146641749 | Dean Acheson | -Secretary of State under Truman -Accused of being a communist and harboring others in the State Department by Joseph McCarthy | 21 | |
| 4146641750 | John Bricker | -Senator from Ohio -Said of Joseph R. McCarthy: "Joe, you're a dirty s.o.b., but there are times when you've got to have an s.o.b. around, and this is one of them." | 22 | |
| 4146641751 | McCarthyism | the dangerous forces of unfairness and fear wrought by anticommunist paranoia | 23 | |
| 4146641752 | Army-McCarthy hearings | -Series of thirty-five days of televised hearings in the spring of 1954 -Hearings called by Senator McCarthy to accuse members of the army of communist ties | 24 | |
| 4146641753 | Jim Crow laws | based on the concept of "separate but equal" facilities for blacks and whites, the system sought to prevent racial mixing in public, including restaurants, movie theaters, and public transportation. An informal system, it was generally perpetuated by custom, violence, and intimidation | 25 | |
| 4146641754 | Emmett Till | -Fourteen-year-old African American -Lynched for leering at a white woman in 1955 | 26 | |
| 4146641755 | Paul Robeson | -Traveled to Europe and Latin America educating the world about the nature of Jim Crow laws -Had his passport confiscated by the State Department | 27 | |
| 4146641756 | Josephine Baker | -Traveled to Europe and Latin America educating the world about the nature of Jim Crow laws -Assumed French citizenship to prevent actions being taken against her by the State Department | 28 | |
| 4146641757 | Gunnar Myrdal | -Swedish scholar -Wrote "An American Dilemma" -exposed the contradiction between the nation's established ideals and the poor treatment of black citizens | 29 | |
| 4146641758 | Jackie Robinson | -Broke the color barrier in baseball -Signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947 | 30 | |
| 4146641759 | Sweatt v. Painter | U.S. Supreme court case which ruled that separate professional schools for blacks failed to meet the test of equality | 31 | |
| 4146641760 | Rosa Parks | -Worked as a seamstress -Arrested for violating Montgomery's Jim Crow statutes by sitting in a "white's only" section of a bus | 32 | |
| 4146641761 | The Montgomery bus boycott | -Year long protest of African Americans in Alabama refusing to ride on city buses -Organized by Martin Luther King, Jr. | 33 | |
| 4146641762 | Martin Luther King, Jr. | -Raised in Atlanta, Georgia -Pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama -Devoted to constitutional justice and the principles of Mohandas Gandhi | 34 | |
| 4146641763 | "To Secure These Rights" | -Report issued by President Truman on the treatment of blacks in America | 35 | |
| 4146641764 | Earl Warren | -Former governor of California -Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who addressed the previously taboo social issues head-on | 36 | |
| 4146641765 | Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas | -Ruled that segregation in public schools was "inherently unequal" -Reversed the "separate but equal" doctrine | 37 | |
| 4146641766 | The Declaration of Constitutional Principles | -Document created in 1956 -Pledge of more than a hundred southern congressional representatives to resist desegregation | 38 | |
| 4146641767 | Little Rock Nine | -A group of nine students who attempted to enroll in Little Rock Central High School in September of 1957 -Were escorted to class by federal troops | 39 | |
| 4146641768 | Orval Faubus | -Governor of Arkansas -Mobilized the state National Guard to try and prevent the Little Rock Nine from attending Little Rock Central High School | 40 | |
| 4146641769 | Civil Rights Act of 1957 | -Established a Civil Rights Commission -Authorized federal injunctions to protect voting rights | 41 | |
| 4146641770 | Southern Christian Leadership Conference | -Created by Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1957 -Mobilized the power of the black churches on behalf of black rights | 42 | |
| 4146641771 | The "sit-in" movement | -Launched on February 1, 1960 -Started by four black college freshmen in Greensboro, North Carolina -Students sat down at lunch counters and demanded service even if it was restricted for "whites only" | 43 | |
| 4146641772 | The Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee | -Youth organization founded by southern black students in 160 to promote civil rights -Started in April 1960 -Gave focus to sit-ins and other civil rights efforts | 44 | |
| 4146641773 | Dynamic conservatism | -on issues involving people, one should be liberal -on issues involving money, the economy, or government, one should be conservative | 45 | |
| 4146641774 | Operation Wetback | -A government program to roundup and deport as many as one million illegal Mexican migrant workers in the United States | 46 | |
| 4146641775 | The Federal Highway Act of 1956 | -$27 billion plan to build forty-two thousand miles of motorways -Created by Eisenhower and seen as a way of nationally mobilizing troops | 47 | |
| 4146641776 | John Foster Dulles | -Secretary of State under Eisenhower's first term -promised to roll back the gains of communism | 48 | |
| 4146641777 | Policy of boldness | -foreign policy objective of John Foster Dulles who believed in changing the containment strategy to one that more directly engaged the Sviet Union and attempted to roll back communist influence around the world -this policy led to a build-up of America's nuclear arsenal to threaten "massive retaliation" against communist enemies, launching the Cold War's arms race | 49 | |
| 4146641778 | Open skies policy | -Proposal of Eisenhower for mutual air surveillance of the U.S.A.'s and USSR's build up of arms | 50 | |
| 4146641779 | Ho Chi Minh | -Leader of rebel forces opposing French Colonial rule in Vietnam -Commanded the nationalist force known as the Viet Minh | 51 | |
| 4146641780 | Viet Minh | -Vietnam nationalists loyal to Ho Chi Minh -Fought for freedom from French Colonial rule | 52 | |
| 4146641781 | Dien Bien Phu | -Military engagement in French colonial Vietnam in which French forces were defeated by Viet Minh nationalists loyal to Ho Chi Minh -With this loss, the French ended their colonial involvement in Indochina, paving the way for America's entry | 53 | |
| 4146641782 | Seventeenth Parallel | -Divide between North Vietnam and South Vietnam as decided by a conference in Geneva, Switzerland | 54 | |
| 4146641783 | The Warsaw Pact | -Agreement of Eastern European countries and the Soviets which created a counterweight to the newly bolstered NATO forces | 55 | |
| 4146641784 | Mohammed Reza Pahlevi | -CIA installed leader of Iran -Put into power after a coup in 1953 | 56 | |
| 4146641785 | The Suez Crisis | -international crisis launched when Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal, which had been owned mostly by French and British stockholders -led to an attack by British, French, and Israeli forces on Egypt which failed without aid from the U.S. | 57 | |
| 4146641786 | Gamal Abdel Nasser | -President of Egypt -Attempted to create a damn on the upper Nile River to provide resources to the region -Created the Suez Crisis by nationalizing the Suez Canal | 58 | |
| 4146641787 | Eisenhower Doctrine | -Created in 1957 -Pledged U.S. military and economic aid to Middle Eastern nations threatened by communist aggression | 59 | |
| 4146641788 | Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries | -Cartel comprising Middle Eastern states and Venezuela -First organized in 1960 -Aimed to control access to and prices of oil, wresting power from Western oil companies and investors | 60 | |
| 4146641789 | Presidential Election of 1956 | -Democratic nominee was Adlai Stevenson -Republican nominee was Dwight D. Eisenhower -Eisenhower won in a landslide -Louisiana voted Republican for the first time since 1876 | 61 | |
| 4146641790 | James R. Hoffa | -Leader of the Teamsters -Helped get the Teamsters expelled from the AF of L-CIO -Previously convicted of jury tampering | 62 | |
| 4146641791 | Landrum-Griffin Act | -Passed in 1959 -Expanded upon the Taft-Hartley Act and brought labor leaders into check financially | 63 | |
| 4146641792 | Sputnik I | -Launched October 4, 1957 -Weighed 184 pounds -Created American concern about the Soviets abilities to launch ICBMs | 64 | |
| 4146641793 | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | -Created in response to the launch of Sputnik -Led American charge in the U.S. v. USSR space race | 65 | |
| 4146641794 | The National Defense and Education Act | -Response to the launch of Sputnik and an effort increase American education -Authorized $887 million in loans for those in need of educational scholarships | 66 | |
| 4146641795 | Camp David | -Presidential retreat in Maryland -Meeting place of Khrushchev and Eisenhower in 1959 | 67 | |
| 4146641796 | Paris conference of May 1960 | -Utter failure due to the emotions sparked by the crash of a U.S. U-2 spy plane in the USSR | 68 | |
| 4146641797 | Fulgencio Batista | -Dictator of Cuba from the 1930s until 1959 -Encouraged investment in American capital -Overthrown in 1959 by Fidel Castro | 69 | |
| 4146641798 | Fidel Castro | -Orchestrated a revolution in Cuba which overthrew Batista and put himself into power -Denounced America -Turned the Cuban economy towards the USSR | 70 | |
| 4146641799 | Helms-Burton Act | -Created in 1966 -An enforcement of the U.S. embargo placed upon Cuban trade | 71 | |
| 4146641800 | The kitchen debate | -televised exchange in 1959 between Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and American Vice President Richard Nixon -Meeting at the American National Exhibition in Moscow, the two leaders sparred over the relative merits of capitalist consumer culture versus Soviet state planning | 72 | |
| 4146641801 | Presidential Election of 1960 | -Democratic nominee was John F. Kennedy ~Running mate was Lyndon B. Johnson -Republican nominee was Ricard M. Nixon ~Running mate was Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. | 73 | |
| 4146641802 | Presidential Debates of 1960 | -televised debates between John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon -JFK was seen by television viewers as the winner of the debates because of his physical appearance and composure | 74 | |
| 4146641803 | Twenty-second Amendment | -Ratified in 1951 -Prohibited a president from serving more than two terms | 75 | |
| 4146641804 | St. Lawrence waterway project | -In combination with Canada, invigorated the cities along the Great Lakes -Completed in 1959 | 76 | |
| 4146641805 | Ernest Hemingway | -Wrote "The Old Man and the Sea" -Nobel laureate -Killed himself in 1961 | 77 | |
| 4146641806 | John Steinbeck | -Wrote "East of Eden" -Wrote "Travels with Charley" -Nobel Prize for literature | 78 | |
| 4146641807 | Norman Miller | -Wrote "The Naked and the Dead" | 79 | |
| 4146641808 | James Jones | -Wrote "From Here to Eternity" | 80 | |
| 4146641809 | James Gould Cozzens | -Wrote "Guard of Honor" | 81 | |
| 4146641810 | Joseph Heller | -Wrote "Catch-22" | 82 | |
| 4146641811 | Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. | -Wrote "Slaughterhouse Five" | 83 | |
| 4146641812 | John Updike | -Born in Pennsylvania -Wrote "Rabbit, Run" -Wrote "Couples" | 84 | |
| 4146641813 | John Cheever | -From Massachusetts -Wrote "The Wapshot Chronicle" -Wrote "The Wapshot Scandal" | 85 | |
| 4146641814 | Louis Auchincloss | -Wrote of upper-class New Yorkers | 86 | |
| 4146641815 | Gore Vidal | -Wrote historical novels and iconoclastic works -Wrote "Myra Breckinridge" | 87 | |
| 4146641816 | Ezra Pound | -Placed in jail after the war in a U.S. Army detention center near Pisa, Italy for alleged collaboration with Fascists | 88 | |
| 4146641817 | Wallace Stevens | -Connecticut insurance executive -Changed careers to try and become a poet | 89 | |
| 4146641818 | William Carlos Williams | -New Jersey pediatrician -Changed careers to try and become a poet | 90 | |
| 4146641819 | Theodore Roethke | -From the pacific northwest -Wrote about the land -Died by drowning in Puget Sound in 1963 | 91 | |
| 4146641820 | Robert Lowell | -Descended from a long line of New Englanders -Tried to apply past Puritan wisdom to the perplexing modern times -Wrote "For the Union Dead" (1964) | 92 | |
| 4146641821 | Sylvia Plath | -Wrote "Ariel" (published posthumously in 1966) -Wrote a novel called "The Bell Jar" (1963) -Committed suicide in 1963 | 93 | |
| 4146641822 | Anne Sexton | -Wrote autobiographical poems -Committed suicide in 1974 | 94 | |
| 4146641823 | John Berryman | -Committed suicide: jumped off Minneapolis bridge onto Mississippi bank (1972) | 95 | |
| 4146641824 | Tennessee Williams | -Wrote "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1947) -Wrote "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (1955) | 96 | |
| 4146641825 | Arthur Miller | -Wrote "Death of a Salesman" (1949) -Wrote "The Crucible" (1953) | 97 | |
| 4146641826 | Lorraine Hansberry | -Wrote "A Raisin in the Sun" (1959) | 98 | |
| 4146641827 | Edward Albee | -Wrote "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (1962) | 99 | |
| 4146641828 | Richard Wright | -Wrote "Native Son" (1940) | 100 | |
| 4146641829 | Ralph Ellison | -Wrote "Invisible Man" (1952) | 101 | |
| 4146641830 | James Baldwin | -Wrote "The Fire Next Time" (1963) | 102 | |
| 4146641831 | LeRoi Jones | -Changed his name to Imamu Amiri Baraka -Wrote plays such as "Dutchman" (1964) | 103 | |
| 4146641832 | William Faulkner | -Nobel recipient in 1950 -From Mississippi -Died in 1962 | 104 | |
| 4146641833 | Walker Percy | -From Mississippi | 105 | |
| 4146641834 | Eudora Welty | -From Mississippi | 106 | |
| 4146641835 | Robert Penn Warren | -From Tennessee -Wrote about Louisiana man Huey Long in "All the King's Men" (1946) | 107 | |
| 4146641836 | Flannery O'Connor | -Wrote of her home state of Georgia | 108 | |
| 4146641837 | William Styron | -From Virginia -Wrote "The Confessions of Nat Turner" (1967) | 109 | |
| 4146641838 | J.D. Salinger | -Wrote "The Catcher in the Rye" (1951) | 110 | |
| 4146641839 | Isaac Bashevis Singer | -Poland native who won the Nobel Prize for literature | 111 | |
| 4146641840 | Bernard Malamud | -Wrote "The Assistant" (1957) -Wrote "The Natural" (1952) | 112 | |
| 4146641841 | Philip Roth | -Wrote "Goodbye, Columbus" (1959) -Wrote "Portnoy's Complaint" (1969) | 113 | |
| 4146641842 | Saul Bellow | -From Chicago -Wrote "The Adventures of Augie March" (1953) -Wrote "Herzog" (1962) -Recipient of the Nobel laureate for literature in 1977 | 114 | |
| 4146641843 | E.L. Doctorow | -Used Old Testament themes in his fictional account of spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg "The Book of Daniel" (1971) -Wrote "Ragtime" (1975) -Wrote "World's Fair" (1985) -Wrote "Billy Bathgate" (1989) | 115 |
