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| 159943197 | Election of 1952 | Dwight D. Eisenhower wins | |
| 159943198 | Anti-Communist vote | Chooses Richard Nixon as his running mate in order to bring in the _________. | |
| 159943199 | Suburbia | expands rapidly | |
| 159943200 | David Riesman | become social critics who openly criticized the mass media culture of the 1950's saying that Americans had become affluent conformists unable to think for themselves (not Whyte) | |
| 159943201 | William H. Whyte Jr. | become social critics who openly criticized the mass media culture of the 1950's saying that Americans had become affluent conformists unable to think for themselves (not Riesman) | |
| 159943202 | technology | Prosperity sweeps the nation as __________leads the way. | |
| 159943203 | Betty Friedan | gave focus and fuel to women's feelings in 1963 when she published "The Feminine Mystique" | |
| 159943204 | television | In terms of politics, ___________ threatened the traditional roles of political parties. | |
| 159943205 | political messages | Applied the standards of show business and commercialism to ___________ . | |
| 159943206 | short slogans | Encouraged reliance on ___________ and sound bites. | |
| 159943207 | affection (and) respect | Dwight D. Eisenhower's greatest asset as President was his enjoyment of the ___________ and ___________ of the American People. | |
| 159943208 | US Army | McCarthy's anticommunist crusade ends when he attacks this group for allegedly sheltering communists | |
| 159943209 | African Americans | A gap between American ideals and racial practices revealed by WWII led to a new militancy and restlessness among many ___________ . | |
| 159943210 | Jim Crow | In an effort to overturn ___________ laws and the segregated system that they had created, African Americans: • Staged economic boycotts • Attacked the underpinnings of segregation in the courts • Black churches became staging points for black rights • Adopted the non-violent tactics of Gandhi | |
| 159943211 | Paul Robeson | singer who criticized American racial policies in Europe; as a result, the State Department revoked his passport | |
| 159943212 | Supreme Court | The ___________ began to advance the cause of civil rights in the 1950's because Congress and the Presidency had largely abdicated their responsibilities by ignoring the problem. | |
| 159943213 | Truman | he ignored Pres. Eisenhower's advice against integrating the armed forces | |
| 159943214 | Brown vs. the Board of Education | 1954 Supreme Court case that ruled racially segregated school systems were inherently unequal | |
| 159943215 | Earl Warren | chief justice on the Brown vs. the Board of Education case | |
| 159943216 | Little Rock Nine | Nine black teenagers who integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957 and became the focus of a national crisis that required the intervention of federal troops to resolve. | |
| 159943217 | Martin Luther King Jr | arrested for the first time in 1955 for organizing a bus boycott | |
| 159943218 | 300 | King was arrested this many times; each arrest was calculated in order to challenge a law in court | |
| 159943219 | Earl Warren | was thought to be a staunch conservative because of his role with putting the Japanese in internment camps; turns out to be one of the most liberal judges in US history | |
| 159943220 | SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) | Grew out of the sit-in movement launched by young southern blacks | |
| 159943221 | Dynamic Conservatism | President Eisenhower defines his domestic policy as this | |
| 159943222 | Dawes Severalty Act | Eisenhower wanted a return to the ___________ of 1887 when dealing with Native Americans (forced assimilation). | |
| 159943223 | Francis Gary Powers | pilot of the U-2 plane shot down by the U.S.S.R. | |
| 159943224 | Dienbienphu | falls to Ho Chi Minh's communist forces; Eisenhower refuses to permit any American involvement | |
| 159943225 | John Foster Dulles | Eisenhower's vehemently anticommunist Secretary of State | |
| 159943226 | Operation Wetback | massive round up of illegal immigrants; as many as 1 million Mexicans were apprehended and returned to Mexico in 1954 | |
| 159943227 | Eisenhower Doctrine (1957) | pledging U.S. military and economic aid to Middle Eastern nations threatened by communist aggression | |
| 159943228 | Britain (and) France | The US condemned ___________ and ___________ as the aggressors in the Suez Canal Crisis. | |
| 159943229 | CIA | The ___________ organized revolutions and assassinations in both Iran and Guatemala. | |
| 159943230 | Sputnik | launched into orbit by the USSR | |
| 159943231 | Election of 1956 | Eisenhower wins in a landslide | |
| 159943232 | Castro and Che Guevera | overthrow the Cuban government in favor of communism (two people) | |
| 159943233 | Election of 1960 | Nixon vs. JFK |
