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| 1265983473 | He gave the U.S. a sense of unity; he inspired confidence; and his moderate policies pleased many Americans. | Dwight David Eisenhower | 1 | |
| 1284203884 | Men apart of the radical right wing (such as Reagan) who stressed victory over (instead of containment of) communism and advocated for a return to traditional moral standards, meanwhile condemning liberal rulings made by the Supreme Court. | "New Conservatives" | 2 | |
| 1265983474 | The new Chief Justice in 1935, he defended the rights of persons accused of subversive beliefs. | Earl Warren | 3 | |
| 1265983475 | Was a case that was most influential for black racial equality, the segregations of schools was ruled by Justice Warren as unconstitutional, thus reversing Plessy v. Ferguson. | Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka | 4 | |
| 1265983476 | Members of Congress (~100), who denounced Brown as "a clear abuse of judicial power", signed this document. | Southern Manifesto | 5 | |
| 1265983477 | Ike's Secretary of State who supported "brinksmanship"(the art of never backing down in a crisis), talked of a holy war against "atheistic communism", and insisted in instant nuclear retaliation to Russian aggression. | John Foster Dulles | 6 | |
| 1265983478 | Commander of the CIA, he was a former veteran of wartime Office of Strategic Services cloak-and-dagger operations. | Allen Dulles (brother of John Foster) | 7 | |
| 1265983479 | Ike's belief that if Vietnam was went communist then its neighboring countries will fall and soon all of Asia. | Domino Theory | 8 | |
| 1265983480 | Opponents of the corrupt Ngo Diem (of South Korea) formed this group while being backed by North Korea. | National Liberation Front | 9 | |
| 1265983481 | A military movement by Britain, France, and Israel to seize an important resource held by Egypt that ended when Russia threatened intervention, thereby gaining Arab support and oil. | Suez Crisis | 10 | |
| 1265983482 | Announced in 1957, this sent military aid and troops (if necessary) to any Middle Eastern nation that was threatened by "communist aggression". Was enforced by the deployment of 14,000 marines to squander Muslim revolts in Lebanon. | Eisenhower Doctrine | 11 | |
| 1265983483 | The combination of interests for military superiority that would produce a potential of misplaced power. | Military-Industrial Complex | 12 | |
| 1284203885 | A major financier of the American, nuclear industry. | Atomic Energy Commission | 13 | |
| 1265983484 | A region that stretch from the old Confederacy across Texas to Southern California drawing people for its low-tax rates, low energy costs, and anti-union right-to-work laws. | Sunbelt | 14 | |
| 1265983485 | The immensely large generation of Americans born between 1946-1964 which influenced all aspects of society as time progressed. | Baby Boom | 15 | |
| 1265983486 | A man who wrote "Common Sense Book for Baby and Child Care" in 1946, which encouraged women to not work outside the home and to create an atmosphere of intimacy and warmth necessary for their children to mature into well-adjusted adults. | Dr. Benjamin Spock | 16 | |
| 1265983487 | An influential evangelist who preached for religious salvation and anti-communism. Christianity was coming more prevalent. | Billy Graham | 17 | |
| 1284203886 | The movement of Caucasians from the city to the suburbs, usually in response to the influx of African American and immigrant populations in the city. | "White Flight" | 18 | |
| 1265983488 | An African-American woman associated with the Montgomery NAACP and veteran of civil rights protests in 30s-40s, she refused to leave her seat for a white man and was arrest, thus initiating the plan for MLK to lead the Montgomery bus boycott. | Rosa Parks | 19 | |
| 1265983489 | Chosen leader of the Montgomery Improvement Association, he would lead the Montgomery bus boycott and inspire blacks across the nation to fight against segregation and for racial equality. He would help form the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. | Martin Luther King Junior | 20 | |
| 1265983490 | A WWII measure that would hire Mexican workers seasonally to work in the U.S. and then return to Mexico; many Mexicans never went back. | Bracero Program | 21 | |
| 1265983491 | A deportation program of 3 million illegal Mexican immigrants | Operation Wetback | 22 | |
| 1265983492 | Launched by the Soviets in 1957, this was the first artificial satellite into orbit. | Sputnik (Little Traveller) | 23 | |
| 1265983494 | Born in Tupelo, Mississippi in 1954, he combined the power of R&B with the Pentecostal music of his youth and became the King of Rock-and-Roll.He adopted a rebellious style. | Elvis Presley | 24 | |
| 1265983496 | Nonconformist writers who scorned conformity, religion, family values, materialism, and conventional punctuation. | Beats | 25 |
