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| 683853990 | Dwight Eisenhower | president in 1950s, served two terms, personified 1950s, war hero | |
| 683853991 | Richard Nixon | young cali senator, VP, prosecuted Alger hiss case, had a scandal taking money from fundraisers and using them for personal reasons | |
| 683853992 | Modern Republicanism | Eisenhowers domestic policy, combination of democratic and repub ideals | |
| 683853993 | Ovelta Culp Hobby | first woman in Repub cabinet, led the department of Health, education, and welfare | |
| 683853994 | soil bank program | reduces farm production and therefore reduces income | |
| 683853995 | Highway act of 1956 | interstate highways, ikes legacy, linked major cities, justification for new taxes, created jobs, still in place | |
| 683853996 | John Foster Dulles | Sec. of State, changed containment to brinkmanship, wanted taiwan to challenge china, conservatives like him | |
| 683853997 | Massive retalliation | brinkmanship, containment costs too much, when russians did this it was called nuclear blackmainl | |
| 683853998 | Third World | asian and african colonies got independence from ww2, often went in to poverty because of weak economy and politics, made pawns in cold war | |
| 683853999 | Iran | CIA overthrows Iran govt because the govt was trying to nationalize the american oil companies there. the Shah was put in charge and he traded low oil prices for arms | |
| 683854000 | Covert Action | CIA helps overthrow govts that threaten US safety | |
| 683854001 | Indo China | French lost this to jap...try to retake it. Vietnamese and cambodians dont want it, ppl support Ho Chi minh, became part of cold war | |
| 683854002 | Geneva Conference | French agree to back of indochina, divide it into cambodia, laos, and vietname, vietnam divided on 17 parallel until general election (america doesnt like because of domino theory) | |
| 683854003 | Ho Chi minh | commie nationalist leader of China....commie dictatorship in north vietnam, vietminh army | |
| 683854004 | vietnam | divided, half commie half "democracy"...vietcong...south is under Diem but he is corrupt | |
| 683854005 | domino theory | if south vietnam falls then all the other countries will fall endangering NZ and AUS | |
| 683854006 | South East Asia Treaty Orgo 1954 | protect vietnam from commies, defend each other, US, GB, France, AUS, NZ, Phillippenes, Thailand, Pakistan | |
| 683854007 | Suez Canal Crisis 1956 | Nassar wants to make a dam, nationalizes canal, GB France and Israel dont like this, send in israel to attack, ike and soviets are like whats wrong with yall, GB and France are never world powers again | |
| 683854008 | Eisenhower Doctrine | US will help any mid east country threatened by communism | |
| 683854009 | Organization of Petroleum exporting Countries | oil is becoming a major world issue, OPEC made to protect oil producing countries, sort of a holding company on global scale | |
| 683854010 | Spirit of geneva | atoms for peace plan, soviets show signs of wanting to end cold war tensions | |
| 683854011 | open skies crisis | Ike wants both countries to be allowed to take aerial pics of each other, Russians say no | |
| 683854012 | Nikita Krushchev | Russian leader took over from stalin | |
| 683854013 | peaceful coexistence | krushchev proposes that the countries can live together peacefully | |
| 683854014 | HUngarian revolt | workers in east germany and poland demanded reform, oct 1956 overthrow moscow backed govt, replaced by liberals, krushchev sends tanks to stop revolt, ike doesnt want to get involved, acknowledge sphere of influence | |
| 683854015 | warsaw pact | russian equivalent of NATo | |
| 683854016 | sputnik | 1957 first stattelite ever launched into space, US arent sure if they are the best. missile gap, intensified nuclear fears | |
| 683854017 | NASA | created to compete with soviets, billions spent | |
| 683854018 | u2 incident | russians shoot down american spy plane over russia, Krushchev calls of paris peace summit | |
| 683854019 | Fidel Castro | commie leader of cuba, overthrew dictator fulgencio batista, marxist, nationalized Americon owned biz and property in cuba | |
| 683854020 | Cuba | ike cuts of trade, commie nation 90 miles from US, CIA sends operatives | |
| 683854021 | Military undustrial complex | ike warns against becoming an military imperial nation. arms race is getting crazy. roman path | |
| 683854022 | civil rights | mainly concerning african americans | |
| 683854023 | Jackie Robinson | first black baseball player in major leagues, broke color line in 1947 hired by dodgers | |
| 683854024 | NAACP | to help clack people get more education, trying to repeal plessy v ferguson, late 40s made gains in higher education | |
| 683854025 | Desegregation | NAACP wants to get rid of, truman got rid of this in govt and military | |
| 683854026 | Brown v Board | topeka kansas, repealed plessy v ferguson, end school segregation | |
| 683854027 | Earl Warren | chief justice, ruled on Brown v Board | |
| 683854028 | Little Rock crisis | national gaurd was used to stop 9 african americans from entering high school ike sent troops to protect kids first prez to use troops for civil rights | |
| 683854029 | Rosa Parks | sat on the front of bus, refused to move because she was tired, inspired protests and bus boycotts | |
| 683854030 | Mondgomery bus boycott | montogmery was inspired by rosa parks, organized boycotts, got supreme court to rule that public bus segregation is unconstitutional | |
| 683854031 | MLK jr | 1957 Southern Christian Leadership Conference, minsters and churches for civil rights, nonviolence, | |
| 683854032 | civil rights acts of 1957 and 1960 | limited, made a permanent Civil Rights Commission, gave Justice Department new powers to protect voting rights of blacks | |
| 683854033 | civil rights commission | gov agency to work on establishing civil rights laws | |
| 683854034 | Southern Christian Leadership Conference | MLKs group...churches and ministers fighting for civil rights, sometimes got arrested on purpose for effect, nonviolent | |
| 683854035 | nonviolent protest | peaceful protesting, sitins, boycotts | |
| 683854036 | sit in movement | started by students who were refused service at woolworths lunch counter | |
| 683854037 | Student Nonviolent Coordination committee | inspired by MLK, keep movement gonig and effective | |
| 683854038 | corporate America | ray crock invented franchises, conglomerates took over small biz, dress codes, white collor over blue collar | |
| 683854039 | consumer culture | suburbs, television, ads, middle class, american dream, buy everything, cheap goods | |
| 683854040 | David Riesman | The lonely Crowd, harvard sociologist, criticized replacement of individuals with conformists | |
| 683854041 | john kenneth galbrath | the affluent society, economist, americans fail to recognize the need to increase social spending | |
| 683854042 | Beatniks | Jack Kerouac- leader, wrote on the road.... Allen Ginsberg-leader wrote howl. spontaneity, drugs, rebellion, model of you revolt in 60s |
