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| 67446276 | McCarthyism | Term for making ruthless and unfair charges against opponents, such as those leveled by a red-hunting Wisconsin senator in the 1950s | 0 | |
| 67446277 | Brown V. Board of Education | Supreme Court ruling that overturned the old Plessy V. Ferguson principle that black public facilities could be "separate but equal" | 1 | |
| 67446278 | Massive Retaliation | The doctrine upon which Eisenhower and Dulles based American nuclear policy in the 1950s | 2 | |
| 67446279 | SEATO | An Asian alliance, set up by Secretary Dulles on the model of NATO, to help support the anti-communist regime in South Vietnam | 3 | |
| 67446280 | Suez Canal | The British-and French-owned waterway whose nationalization by Egyptian President Nasser triggered a major Middle East crisis | 4 | |
| 67446281 | Sputnik | A soviet scientific achievement that set off a wave of American concern about Soviet superiority in science and education | 5 | |
| 67446282 | IBM | Major international corporation that symbolized the early computer and "information age" | 6 | |
| 67446283 | U2 | High-flying American spy plane, whose downing in 1960 destroyed a summit and heightened Cold War tensions | 7 | |
| 67446284 | The Feminine Mystique | Betty Friedan's 1963 book that launched a revolution against the suburban "cult of domesticity" that reigned in the 1950s | 8 | |
| 67446285 | Cuba | Latin American nation where a 1959 communist revolution ousted a U.S.-backed dictator | 9 | |
| 67446286 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | Soldier who kept the nation at peace for most of his two terms and ended up warning America about the "military-industrial complex" | 10 | |
| 67446287 | Joseph R. McCarthy | Reckless and power-hungry demagogue who intimidated even President Eisenhower before his bubble burst | 11 | |
| 67446288 | Earl Warren | Controversial jurist who led the Supreme Court into previously off-limits social and racial issues | 12 | |
| 67446289 | Martin Luther King, Jr. | Black minister whose 1955 Montgomery bus boycott made him the leader of the civil right movement | 13 | |
| 67446290 | Ho Chi Minh | Vietnamese nationalist and communist whose defeat of the French led to calls for American military intervention in Vietnam | 14 | |
| 67446291 | Ngo Dinh Diem | Anti-communist leader who set up a Pro-American govt to block Ho Chi Minh's expected takeover of all Vietnam | 15 | |
| 67446292 | Betty Friedan | Writer whose 1963 book signaled the beginnings of more extensive feminist protest | 16 | |
| 67446293 | Adlai E. Stevenson | Eloquent Democratic presidential candidate who was twice swamped by a popular Republican wear hero | 17 | |
| 67446294 | Billy Graham | Popular religious evangelical who effectively used the new medium of tv | 18 | |
| 67446295 | James R. Hoffa | Tough Teamster-union boss whose corrupt actions helped lead to passage of the Landrum-Griffin Act | 19 | |
| 67446296 | John Foster Dulles | Eisenhower's tough-talking secretary of state who wanted to "roll back" communism | 20 | |
| 67446297 | Nikita Khrushchev | Blustery Soviet leader who frequently challenged Eisenhower with both threats and diplomacy | 21 | |
| 67446298 | Fidel Castro | Latin American revolutionary who became economically and militarily dependent on the Soviet Union | 22 | |
| 67446299 | Richard Nixon | Red-hunter turned world-traveling diplomat who narrowly missed becoming president in 1960 | 23 | |
| 67446300 | John F. Kennedy | Youthful politician who combined television appeal with traditional big-city Democratic politics to squeak out a victory in 1960 | 24 |
