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| 6434248633 | The Feminine Mystique | Written by Betty Friedan, journalist and mother of three children; described the problems of middle-class American women and the fact that women were being denied equality with men; said that women were kept from reaching their full human capacities | 0 | |
| 6434248634 | Rock'n'roll | "jungle music" seen as evil/dangerous by adults | 1 | |
| 6434248635 | Checkers Speech | Given by Richard Nixon on September 23, 1952, when he was the Republican candidate for the Vice Presidency. Said to have saved his career from a campaign contributions scandal | 2 | |
| 6434248636 | McCarthyism | The term associated with Senator Joseph McCarthy who led the search for communists in America during the early 1950s through his leadership in the House Un-American Activities Committee | 3 | |
| 6434248637 | Army-McCarthy Hearing | The Trials in which Senator McCarthey accused the U.S. Army of harboring possible communists.These trials were one of the first televised trials in America, and helped show America Senator McCarthey's irresponsibility and meanness | 4 | |
| 6434248638 | Jim Crow | Laws designed to enforce segregation of blacks from whites | 5 | |
| 6434248639 | Montgomery Bus boycott | In 1955, after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a city bus, Dr. Martin L. King led a boycott of city busses. After 11 months the Supreme Court ruled that segregation of public transportation was illegal | 6 | |
| 6434248640 | Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas | 1954 - The Supreme Court overruled Plessy v. Ferguson, declared that racially segregated facilities are inherently unequal and ordered all public schools desegregated | 7 | |
| 6434248641 | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) | Students whose purpose was coordinate a nonviolent attack on segregation and other forms of racism | 8 | |
| 6434248642 | Operation Wetback | Program which apprehended and returned some one million illegal immigrants to Mexico - end of the Bracero program | 9 | |
| 6434248643 | Federal Highway Act of 1956 | Measure that provided federal funding to build a nationwide system of interstate and defense highways | 10 | |
| 6434248644 | Policy of Boldness | Foreign policy that attempted to roll back communist influence around the globe; led to build-up of America's nuclear arsenal to threaten massive retaliation—the Cold War's arms race | 11 | |
| 6434248645 | Hungarian Uprising | Hungarian nationalists staged huge demonstrations demanding non-communist parties be legalized; turned into armed rebellion and spread throughout the country | 12 | |
| 6434248646 | Battle of Dien Bien Phu | The climactic battle of the First Indochina War between French Union forces of the French Far East Expeditionary Corps, and Vietnamese Viet Minh communist revolutionary forces. The battle occurred between March and May 1954, and culminated in a massive French defeat that effectively ended the war | 13 | |
| 6434248647 | Suez Crisis | July 26, 1956, Nasser (leader of Egypt) nationalized the Suez Canal, Oct. 29, British, French and Israeli forces attacked Egypt. UN forced British to withdraw; made it clear Britain was no longer a world power | 14 | |
| 6434248648 | Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) | An economic organization consisting primarily of Arab nations that controls the price of oil and the amount of oil its members produce and sell to other nations | 15 | |
| 6434248649 | Sputnik | First artificial Earth satellite, it was launched by Moscow in 1957 and sparked U.S. fears of Soviet dominance in technology and outer space. It led to the creation of NASA and the space race | 16 | |
| 6434248650 | Kitchen Debate | Debate between Nixon and Khrushechev. The two men discussed the merits of each of their respective economic systems, capitalism and communism. The debate took place during an escalation of the Cold War, beginning with the launch of Sputnik in 1957, through the U-2 Crisis in 1960. Most Americans believed Nixon won the debate | 17 | |
| 6434248651 | The Eisenhower Doctrine | Eisenhower proposed and obtained a joint resolution from Congress authorizing the use of U.S. military forces to intervene in any country that appeared likely to fall to communism. Used in the Middle East | 18 | |
| 6434248652 | Richard M. Nixon | was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974, when he became the only president to resign the office, started and ended US involvement in Veitnam, involved in Watergate Scandal and resigned due to possible impeachment | 19 | |
| 6434248653 | Betty Friedan | 1921-2006. American feminist, activist and writer. Best known for starting the "Second Wave" of feminism through the writing of her book "The Feminine Mystique". | 20 | |
| 6434248654 | Elvis Presley | United States rock singer whose many hit records and flamboyant style greatly influenced American popular music (1935-1977) | 21 | |
| 6434248655 | Joseph McCarthy | 1950s; Wisconsin senator claimed to have list of communists in American gov't, but no credible evidence; took advantage of fears of communism post WWII to become incredibly influential; "McCarthyism" was the fearful accusation of any dissenters of being communists | 22 | |
| 6434248656 | Rosa Parks | (LBJ) , United States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery (Alabama) and so triggered the national civil rights movement | 23 | |
| 6434248657 | Martin Luther King Jr. | U.S. Baptist minister and civil rights leader. A noted orator, he opposed discrimination against blacks by organizing nonviolent resistance and peaceful mass demonstrations. He was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. Nobel Peace Prize (1964) | 24 | |
| 6434248658 | Earl Warren | Chief Justice during the 1950's and 1960's who used a loose interpretation to expand rights for both African-Americans and those accused of crimes | 25 | |
| 6434248659 | John Foster Dulles | As Secretary of State. he viewed the struggle against Communism as a classic conflict between good and evil. Believed in containment and the Eisenhower doctrine | 26 | |
| 6434248660 | Nikita Khrushchev | Aggressive Soviet leader whose failed gamble of putting missiles in Cuba cost him his job | 27 | |
| 6434248661 | Ho Chi Minh | 1950s and 60s; communist leader of North Vietnam; used guerrilla warfare to fight anti-communist, American-funded attacks under the Truman Doctrine; brilliant strategy drew out war and made it unwinnable | 28 | |
| 6434248662 | Gamal Abdel Nasser | Arab leader, set out to modernize Egypt and end western domination, nationalized the Suez canal | 29 | |
| 6434248663 | Fidel Castro | Communist leader of Cuba, Bay of Pigs | 30 | |
| 6434248664 | John F. Kennedy | president during part of the cold war and especially during the superpower rivalry and the cuban missile crisis. he was the president who went on tv and told the public about hte crisis and allowed the leader of the soviet uinon to withdraw their missiles. other events, which were during his terms was the building of the berlin wall, the space race, and early events of the Vietnamese war | 31 | |
| 6434248665 | Lyndon B. Johnson | signed the civil rights act of 1964 into law and the voting rights act of 1965. he had a war on poverty in his agenda. in an attempt to win, he set a few goals, including the great society, the economic opportunity act, and other programs that provided food stamps and welfare to needy famillies. he also created a department of housing and urban development. his most important legislation was probably medicare and medicaid | 32 |
