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| 3998696842 | Air Force in the 1950s | Emphasis on this for military spending | 0 | |
| 3998700173 | Allen Dulles | Head of CIA | 1 | |
| 3998701151 | American Bandstand | TV Show popular in 50s | 2 | |
| 3998701152 | Arms Race | Between Russia and US | 3 | |
| 3998702523 | Aswan High Dam | Controversial Dam that Egypt wanted US to help with but US refused due to Egypt's ties with USSR | 4 | |
| 3998702524 | Beat Generation | Group of Authors prominent in the 50s | 5 | |
| 3998704594 | Betty Frieden | Famous for writing the Feminine Mystique | 6 | |
| 3998704595 | Brinkmanship | Policy of being on the edge, pushing up until the point of break out | 7 | |
| 3998708001 | Brown v. Board of Education | Declared State segregation in schools was unconstitutional | 8 | |
| 3998717299 | Checkers Speech | Speech by Nixon to try and get trust and support back | 9 | |
| 3998717300 | CIA | Central intelligence agency | 10 | |
| 3998719991 | Civil Rights Act of 1957 | first since reconstruction. voting rights bill. established permanent commission in civil rights | 11 | |
| 3998731653 | Clinton 12 | the 12 black students who attended this high school which was first to integrate blacks | 12 | |
| 3998731654 | Collective Defense | Philosophy that an attack against one ally is an attack against all | 13 | |
| 3998733061 | Conformity | following rules | 14 | |
| 3998734461 | Dien Bien Phu | location of very important battle in the indochina war | 15 | |
| 3998735404 | Domino Theory | Vietnam would go to communism then everyone in Asia would fall into it as well | 16 | |
| 3998737143 | Duck and Cover | strategy to protect yourself in Nuclear situations | 17 | |
| 3998739064 | Earl Warren | Eisenhower appoints him, known for Warren court which took down segregation in schools | 18 | |
| 3998739962 | Eisenhower Doctrine | US would send military aid and troops if necessary to any middle eastern nation that asked for help against international communism | 19 | |
| 3998741200 | Elvis Presley | Famous face and father of Rock and Roll | 20 | |
| 3998743348 | Era of Economic Prosperity | 21 | ||
| 3998746736 | Federal Civil Defense Administration | helped raise awareness and teach preparedness of Nuclear fallout | 22 | |
| 3998753560 | Fidel Castro | Dictator of Cuba | 23 | |
| 3998753561 | Hydrogen Bomb | bigger than atomic in firepower, US first tested | 24 | |
| 3998755007 | Atomic Bomb | First type of nuclear bomb created | 25 | |
| 3998755008 | Highway Act of 1956 | Largest amount of money set out for road work ever | 26 | |
| 3998757357 | Ho Chi Minh | president of south korea. leader of the gorilla group | 27 | |
| 3998757358 | Imre Nagy | leader of hungary. arrested and executed | 28 | |
| 3998758492 | Iran | CIA overthrew this government | 29 | |
| 3998758493 | Jackie Robinson | African american baseball player | 30 | |
| 3998760721 | Jencks V. United States | whatever files or evidence is being used they must show the defense | 31 | |
| 3998762087 | Yates V. United States | overturned the conviction of people who were members of the communist party that were arrested for "conspiring" against the gov | 32 | |
| 3998762088 | John Foster Dulles | Secretary of State under Eisenhower | 33 | |
| 3998763725 | Jonas Salk | man who discovered Polio Vaccine | 34 | |
| 3998763726 | John Kenneth Gailbraith | American Economist | 35 | |
| 3998766599 | Kitchen Debate | between Nixon and Khrushchev, first casual meeting between two countries since start of cold war | 36 | |
| 3998767956 | Levittown | massive planned construction of huge suburb in NY | 37 | |
| 3998769369 | Little Rock Central High School | one of first school forced to desegregate | 38 | |
| 3998772335 | Marlon Brando | very famous actor who became icon for post war feelings | 39 | |
| 3998775831 | Martin Luther King Jr. | Became official spokesperson of Montgomery Bus Boycott, face of social justice and equality | 40 | |
| 3998775832 | Massive Retaliation | Policy of Deterrence -if a Country bombs us, we will completely flatten them | 41 | |
| 3998778337 | MKULTRA Program | 42 | ||
| 3998778338 | Montgomery Bus Boycott | all african americans boycotted the buses after the Rosa Parks incident | 43 | |
| 3998781344 | National Defense Education Act 1958 | increased funding in STEM areas and created agencies like NASA | 44 | |
| 3998781345 | NASA | US Space program | 45 | |
| 3998782924 | National Liberation Front | Vietnamese party that wanted to unify North and South | 46 | |
| 3998782925 | New Look | smaller conventional Army -increase on spending on Atomic weapons and Air Force | 47 | |
| 3998784578 | Nikita Khruschev | Russian leader in 50s | 48 | |
| 3998785550 | Peaceful co-existence | Soviet foreign policy | 49 | |
| 3998786473 | Polio Vaccine | created by Jonas Salk | 50 | |
| 3998787906 | Rock 'n' Roll Music | form of rebellion for teenagers. "race music" | 51 | |
| 3998787907 | Rosa Parks | Dec 1, 1955 didnt give her seat up on the bus. one white gentlemen had to stand while 3 others got seats due to blacks getting up | 52 | |
| 3998789036 | SEATO | International agency based in pacific against communism | 53 | |
| 3998790720 | Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | leader of Iran in Cold War | 54 | |
| 3998790721 | Soap Operas | these became very popular in this time period | 55 | |
| 3998798648 | Space Race | Between Russia and US | 56 | |
| 3998798649 | Sputnik | Russian satellite | 57 | |
| 3998799811 | Suburbanization | growth of areas nearest to cities | 58 | |
| 3998799812 | Suez Canal Crisis | Britain France and Israel invade due to Egypt controlling canal, Russia US and UN force them to withdraw | 59 | |
| 3998802985 | Texaco Star Theater | one of first successful TV shows that was sponsored by Texaco | 60 | |
| 3998802986 | U-2 | Spy plane that crashed in Soviet Union | 61 | |
| 3998805324 | United Fruit Company | Owned and controlled huge amounts of land in South America, crisis occurred when a group took some of there land, and were then accused of being Communist | 62 | |
| 3998805325 | Vietnam | French end up being surrounded and line drawn at 17 Parallel for division of Vietnam | 63 | |
| 3998807626 | White Flight | 64 |
