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| 344305844 | booming economy | The post-WWII economy was a ______. 25% of all homes in 1960 were less than a decade old. 83% of the new homes were in the suburbs. | |
| 344305845 | electronics | The field of _____ hit a milestone with the inventions of the transistor & Computer. gave rise to high-tech companies like IBM. The "information age" was beginning. | |
| 344305846 | A social milestone in 1956 | when "white-collar" workers outnumbered "blue-collar" workers. That is to say there were more tie-wearing professionals than workers who get their hands dirty. This was bad news for labor unions but good news for women who found jobs as clerks and in offices. | |
| 344305847 | Betty Friedan | started the modern feminist movement with her book The Feminine Mystique (1963) | |
| 344305848 | Sex appeal in pop culture | Elvis "the Pelvis" Presley's dance moves were dubbed inappropriate by the older generation, and Marilyn Monroe was featured on the cover of the new magazine Playboy and was called the "Sex Goddess for the Nuclear Age." | |
| 344305849 | John Kenneth Galbraith | a Harvard economist who wrote The Affluent Society. The book saw a problem between a generally rich and affluent society despite public problems such as polluted air and garbage. | |
| 344363244 | Adlai Stevenson | the Democrats nominee for the 1952 election; down-home Illinois governor. | |
| 344363245 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | clear favorite and republican candidate for the 1952 election. Running mate was Richard Nixon. he was a war hero, grandfatherly, had a big smile, and he attacked Stevenson as soft on communism. | |
| 344363246 | Richard Nixon | Dwight D. Eisenhower's Running mate, was accused of having used a secret "slush fund" as a senator | |
| 344363247 | Checkers speech | speech where Nixon went on TV (a new medium at the time) and gave a famous speech about his family dog, Checkers, which saved his job | |
| 344363248 | Eisenhower as president | promised to personally go to Korea and settle the issue.did fly to Korea, but failed at ending the conflict. Seven months later, he korea w/ threatened nuclear bombs, an armistice was signed. handled the military well. He seemed above petty political splits. On the down side, he could've used his popularity to propel the infant civil rights movement (he largely ignored it). | |
| 344363249 | Joseph McCarthy | claimed that Sec. of State Dean Acheson had knowingly hired 205 communists. his claims got wilder and out of hand. He accused Gen. George Marshall as being in some kind of communist conspiracy. Disliked by Ike | |
| 344363250 | Jim Crow laws | Limited rights of blacks. Literacy tests, grandfather clauses and poll taxes limited black voting rights | |
| 344363251 | Racism in the south | There was intimidation, threats of job loss, beatings and lynchings of blacks. These crimes often were unpunished. The rest of the world saw this American embarrassment. | |
| 344363252 | Gunnar Myrdal | he wrote An American Dilemma. In his book, he pointed out the hypocrisy of "The American Creed" (liberty, equality, etc.) when placed against the reality of racism in America. | |
| 344363253 | Sweatt v. Painter (1950) | NAACP wins, the Supreme Court ruled that black professional schools were not equal to white. | |
| 344363254 | Harry Truman | integrated the military into the fight against racism in 1948 | |
| 344363255 | Deliberate speed | was slow in the South as local school districts simply didn't want to integrate. | |
| 344363256 | Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, KS | overturned plessy v ferguson | |
| 344363257 | sit-in" movement | Black students protested segregated lunch counters by sitting at white-only counters. They wouldn't get served, but their sitting down shut down the counters until the policy was changed. | |
| 344363258 | Operation Wetback | started by ike due to the mexican govt.'s desire to stop illegal immigration, it would round up and return illegal Mexican immigrants. | |
| 344363259 | policies from the new deal kept by ike | Social Security, unemployment benefits | |
| 344363260 | Interstate Highway Act | 1956 Eisenhower 20 yr plan to build 41,000 mi of highway, largest public works project in history | |
| 344363261 | John Foster Dulles | wanted to go beyond the policy of containment. He wanted to "rollback" communism, to liberate countries that had been taken over. He proposed cutting back on military spending, but focusing on building nuclear weapon-carrying bombers in a "Strategic Air Command." | |
| 344363262 | Nikita Khrushchev | Russian premier after Stalin. Led de-Stalinization of Russia. A reformer who argued for major innovations. | |
| 344363263 | Ho Chi Minh | tried to appeal to Woodrow Wilson for self-determination, way back in 1919. He felt FDR may be sympathetic to Vietnam's cause. However, Vietnam started going more and more communist, and the U.S. started backing away. | |
| 344363264 | Warsaw Pact | An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations. This was in response to the NATO | |
| 344363265 | Hungry | country which marked the continuation of cold war, USSR invades, They claims to be against communism, US does not intervene in order to keep good relations with Nikita Khrushchev | |
| 344363266 | Britain and France | attacked Egypt (Oct. 1956) without America's knowledge. | |
| 344363267 | Eisenhower Doctrine | It promised U.S. help to the Middle East if threatened by communism. (In the Middle East, communism wasn't the real threat to the U.S., nationalism and the power of oil was) | |
| 344363268 | election of 1956 | The election of 1956 was a repeat of '52: Eisenhower vs. Adlai Stevenson. The Democrats attacked Ike's health and said he was a part-time president—doing more golfing than governing. Times were good and Ike was popular, he won big again, 457 to 73. | |
| 344363269 | labor unions | had been getting ugly with things like gangsterism, fraud, bullying. | |
| 344363270 | Landrum-Griffin Act | passed (1959) to watch labor unions' bookkeeping and other sleazy monkey-business. | |
| 344363271 | Sputnik I | the first space satelite, launched by Soviet Union; the logic went: if the Soviets can put a dog in space, then they can deliver a nuclear weapon to the U.S. using ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles). | |
| 344363272 | Rocket fever started | ke set up the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and channeled money, By 1960, several U.S. satellites were up and ICBMs were tested, Schools also changed After Sputnik, emphasis was taken from the humanities (art, drama, dance, etc.) and placed on the sciences and math. | |
| 344363273 | Fidel Castro | In Cuba 1959, he overthrew Fulgencio Batista whom America supported. he began to nationalize Cuban lands, many were owned by Americans. his plan was to take from large landowners then distribute the land to the people. His tactics, however, were bloody and merciless. | |
| 344363274 | The 1960 election | The Republicans nominated Richard Nixon (V.P. candidate Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.) and the Democrats nominated John F. Kennedy (V.P. candidate Lyndon B. Johnson). Kennedy was Catholic, supposedly a drawback in an election. But, his faith might've gained as many votes as it lost. The 1960 TV debates were important. Kennedy was young, handsome, articulate, and spoke into the camera (to the viewers). Nixon came off as sweaty, shifty, and unshaven. As V.P. for 8 years, Nixon was likely the front-runner. But, the TV debates helped draw the race to dead even and again showed the power of TV. Kennedy won the very close election | |
| 344363275 | Twenty-second Amendment | limited a president to two terms. | |
| 344363276 | The Life of the Mind in Postwar America | Marvelous literature came at this time. Ernest Hemingway wrote The Old Man and the Sea (1952) and won the Nobel Prize for literature. He killed himself in 1961. John Steinbeck won the Prize too. He wrote East of Eden (1952) and Travels with Charley. | |
| 344363277 | Eisenhower domestic policy | he was a moderate conservative, ike attempted to reduce the size of the federal government, but he did add the cabinet post of sec of health education and welfare | |
| 344363278 | 14th amendment | This amendment declared that all persons born or naturalized in the United States were entitled equal rights regardless of their race, and that their rights were protected at both the state and national levels. | |
| 344364315 | Little Rock Central High School | the site of forced school desegregation. had to be integrated by force through Pres. Eisenhower |
