AMSCO United States History 2015 Edition, Chapter 27 The Eisenhower Years, 1952-1960
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| 6312988725 | modern Republicanism | President Eisenhower's term for his balanced and moderate approach to governing. Claiming he was liberal toward people but conservative about spending money. He helped balance the federal budget and lowered taxes without destroying existing social programs. (p. 580) |  | 0 |
| 6312988728 | Highway Act; interstate highway system | The most permanent legacy of the Eisenhower administration was this act passed in 1956. It created 42,000 miles of highway linking every major city in the nation. (p. 580) |  | 1 |
| 6312988730 | brinksmanship | The principle of pushing Communist nations to the brink of war, thinking they would back down because of American nuclear superiority. (p. 581) |  | 2 |
| 6312988742 | domino theory | The political theory that if one nation comes under Communist control then neighboring nations will also fall to Communist control. (p. 583) |  | 3 |
| 6312988747 | Eisenhower Doctrine | This 1957 doctrine, pledged United States economic and military aid to any Middle Eastern country threatened by Communism. (p. 584) |  | 4 |
| 6312988758 | U-2 incident | In 1960, the Soviet military used a guided missile to shoot down an American U-2 spy plane over Soviet territory, revealing a formerly secret American tactic of the Cold War. (p. 586) |  | 5 |
| 6312988760 | military-industrial complex | In his farewell address, President Eisenhower warned the nation to "guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence... by the military-industrial complex". (p. 587) |  | 6 |
| 6312988765 | Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka | In May 1954, the Supreme Court agreed with Thurgood Marshal and ruled that "separate facilities are inherently unequal" and unconstitutional, and that school segregation should end immediately. (p. 588) |  | 7 |
| 6312988768 | Little Rock Crisis | In 1957, Governor Faubus used the Arkansas National Guard to prevent nine black students from entering Little Rock Central High School. President Eisenhower sent federal troops to ensure the black students could attend class. (p. 589) |  | 8 |
| 6312988769 | Rosa Parks | In 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, a middle aged black woman refused to give up her seat on a bus, which led to her arrest for violating segregation laws. This triggered an African American protest of boycotting the city buses. (p. 589) |  | 9 |
| 6312988770 | Montgomery bus boycott | Rosa Park sparked a massive Afican American protest of the Montgomery, Alabama buses. (p. 589) | | 10 |
| 6312988774 | Southern Christian Leadership Conference | In 1957, Martin Luther King Jr. organized ministers and churches to create this civil rights organization. (p. 590) |  | 11 |
| 6312988775 | nonviolent protest | To call attention to the injustice of segregated facilities students would deliberately invite arrest by sitting in restricted areas. (p. 590) |  | 12 |
| 6312988776 | sit-in movement | In February 1960, African American college students in Greensboro, North Carolina created this protest after they were refused service at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter. (p. 590) |  | 13 |
| 6312988777 | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee | In 1960, an organization that called attention to the sit-in movement. (p. 590) |  | 14 |
| 6312988785 | consumer culture | In the 1950s, consensus and conformity were hallmarks of the American culture. Television, advertising, and the middle-class move to the suburbs, contributed to this culture. (p. 590) |  | 15 |
| 6312988794 | beatniks | A group of rebellious writer and intellectuals led by Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. They advocated spontaneity, use of drugs, and rebellion against societal standards. (p. 592) |  | 16 |
