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| 351444163 | Election of 1952 | Eisenhower, the supreme allied commander in WWII, easily defeated democrat Adlai Stevenson by relying heavily on a TV campaign. The Korean War also gave the republicans ammunition because the democrats were blamed for the war. | 0 | |
| 351444164 | The American economy during the 1950s | There was a steady sustained growth during the 1950's, especially in the middle class the in and the number of millionaires. Minorities were the only ones that saw no success during this time period | 1 | |
| 351444165 | termination policy | similar to the Dawes Act, the government sold tribal land and assets and terminated relationships with the tribes | 2 | |
| 351444166 | urban renewal | new civic centers, sports arenas, office towers, and more brought visitors to the city, which made them money. Many Minority neighborboods were torn down to make room for these attractions | 3 | |
| 351444167 | federal Highway act of 1956 | the legislation wrapped a program to build 41,000 miles of freeways fror hauling military hardware, and to make evactuation possible in the case of a Soviet attack. However, what it really did was kill out the train as the primary mode of transportation and connect all the US cities. | 4 | |
| 351444168 | consumerism during the decade | With the invention of the universal credit card, and new franchises like McDonalds and Holiday Inns, consumer debt tripled. New things developed like the first large scale shopping center in Northgate Seattle and Disneyland | 5 | |
| 351444169 | The New fifties family | the fifties was a good decade for white males. In the ideal family, people married very young, and the dad worked and the mom stayed home every day. The TV replaced the radio as the center of the home, and most commercial targeted housewives, who would be the ones using the appliances. | 6 | |
| 351444170 | Education of the fifties | schools were matched with the neighborhoods economic class, where schools were either vocational training centered or college oriented. Schools were in general very orderly and strict | 7 | |
| 351444171 | Early Rock n Roll artists | Buddy Holly, Elvis Presely, Richie Valens, and the Beatles (1960s) were among the rock artists of the day | 8 | |
| 351444172 | A turn to religion | J Edgar Hoover advocated churchgoing as an advocate to Communism. America became vcery conservative, with a giant resurgance in relgion, the churchgoing population jumping from 48% to 63%. Billy Graham became a pioneer in evangelical religion. Congress created new connections between government and religion by adding "Under God" in the pledge of allegience, and requiring currency to bear "In God We Trust" | 9 | |
| 351444173 | The Affluent society & The Other America | written by John Kenneth Galbraith, the book was meant to expose the poor part of society, which many had never been exposed to fully. It exposed a huge gap between the rich and the poor. It was similar to Micheal Harrington's book where he wrote about the population of 40 to 50 million poor people. | 10 | |
| 351444174 | The Feminine Mistique | Written by Betty Friedan, it was the anti-good wife's guide. Since she began the feminist movement, she was considered the MLK of the movement | 11 | |
| 351444175 | Massive retaliation | The US took adcantage of superior American technology by creating more military weapons, and learning to rely more on military weapons than armies. | 12 | |
| 351444176 | Sputnik | In 0ctober of 1957, the soviets launched an artifical satellite into space. The Russians called their orbiting satellite, Sputnik, the Russian equivalent of "fellow traveler". The American's own attempt at launching a satellite, caled Vangaurd, exploded on the launching pad. In response, a paniched US Congress voted heavy appropriations for defense-related study and research in US schools. With the launching of Sputnik, the US increased spending on Math and science, and created NASA | 13 | |
| 351444177 | John Foster Dulles | As Eisenhower's secretary of state, his job was to formulate foreign policy. He was against containment, and instead believed in BRINKMANSHIP, where he thought communism should be destroyed completely. | 14 | |
| 351444178 | role of the CIA | The CIA undermines anti-american governemts such as Iran, whee they feared that the soviets would take over and cut off US oil suplies, and in Guatemala | 15 | |
| 352185053 | Vietnam | Vietnam had been controlled by the French until WWII, when it came under Japan's control. After the War, France wanted to take Vietnam back under its control, primarily for resources. The Vietnamese people revolted against France under the leadership of Ho Chi Minh. Though the US had supported France in this war, they ended up getting control of Sout Vietnam when Vietnam was victorious, North Vietnam being given to Ho Chi Minh, separated by the 17th parallel. | 16 | |
| 352185054 | Suez Canal | Leads to the Meditteranean sea. While Great Britain and France attempted to sieze the canal, Hungary revolted against the Soviet Union, without any help for the US. The SU ended up crushed the Hungarians. | 17 | |
| 352185055 | U2 | US was an American spy plane that was shot down over the SU. The Soviets complained that is set dissarment back several years, since they now kjnew that the US had been spying on them and they had to rearm. The US denied that they had purposely sent this plane there, but it was a lie. | 18 |
