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| 63573124 | Dwight Eisenhower | Famous WW2 General. President 1953 - 1960. Known for ending korean war, making interstate high system, "Modern Republican" | 0 | |
| 63573125 | Richard Nixon | Californian senator that ran with Eisenhower in the election of 1952. Made a named for himself in the Alger Hiss case. | 1 | |
| 63573126 | Modern Republicanism | First introduced by Eisenhower, it was the theory to help the poor and aged, while trying to limit the powers of central government. | 2 | |
| 63573127 | Oveta Culp Hobby | First woman in a Republican cabinet. Eisenhower placed the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) under her. | 3 | |
| 63573128 | soil bank program | was created for farmers, means of reducing farm production and thereby increasing farm income. | 4 | |
| 63573129 | Highway Act (1956) | It authorized the construction of 42,000 miles of interstate highways linking all the nation's major cities. Resulted in the creation of jobs, growth of suburbs and contribute to a more homogeneous national culture. | 5 | |
| 63573130 | John Foster Dullies; "brinksmanship" | Secretary of State during Eisenhower's presidency who proposed that the U.S pushed Communist powers to the brink of war, they would back down because of American nuclear superior. IT pleased coservatives | 6 | |
| 63573131 | Third World | countries who lacked stable political and economic institutions, needed help from the U.S or USSR. | 7 | |
| 63573132 | Iran | CIA helped overthrow the government in Iran that had tried to nationalize the holding of foreign oil companies. This allowed for the return of Reza Pahlavi. | 8 | |
| 63573133 | covert action | undercover intervention in foreign government by the CIA during Eisenhower's presidency. | 9 | |
| 63573134 | Indochina | Southeast Asian colony that France tried to retake after WWII, resulted in Geneva Conference. | 10 | |
| 63573135 | Geneva Conference | conference where representatives from many countries met to work out a peace agreement and arrange for Indochian's future. | 11 | |
| 63573136 | Ho Chi Minh | Communist leader that established a communist dictatorship in North Vietnam. | 12 | |
| 63573137 | Vietnam | Created by the Geneva Conference, it was supposed to be temporary divided at the 17th parallel until a general election took place. However, it never took place because North Vietnam established a Communist dictatorship while South Vietnam was anticommunist. | 13 | |
| 63573138 | domino theory | stated that if one country fell to communism, all countries would fall eventually | 14 | |
| 63573139 | Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (1954) | Regional defense pact between South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambio to prevent the "fall" to communism. They agrred to defend one another in case of an attack within the region. | 15 | |
| 63573140 | Suez Canal crisis (1956) | Caused when Nasser seized and nationalized the British and French Suez Canal. In response to this threat, Britian, France and Israel carried a suprise attack against Egypt and retook the canal. Angered Einsehower. After this crisis, Britian and France would never again play the role of major powers in world affairs. | 16 | |
| 63573141 | Eisenhower Doctrine | A U.S commitment to defend the Middle East against attack by any communist country, it was proposed by Einsenhower | 17 | |
| 63573142 | Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) | Organized in 1960 by Arab nations of Saudi, Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq Iran and Venezuela. | 18 | |
| 63573143 | "spirit of Geneva" | USSR and US conferring on peace in 1955, couldn't agree on demilitarization or Open Skies but suspended nuclear tests. First thaw in the Cold War. | 19 | |
| 63573145 | Nikita Khrushchev | New Soviet leader after Stalin, supported "peace coexsistence" | 20 | |
| 63573147 | Hungrian revolt | After a popular uprising in Hungray succeeded in overthrowing a government backed up by Moscow, Kremlin sent in Soviet tanks to crush the freedom fighters and restore control over Hungary. Hungary then asked for U.S help, however, the U.S didn't help. It ended the first thaw in the Cold War. | 21 | |
| 63573148 | Warsaw Pact | Communist security organization | 22 | |
| 63573149 | Sputnik shock | When the Soviet launched the first satellites, Sputnik I & II, into the orbit around earth. Caused congress to pass the NDEA. | 23 | |
| 63573150 | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) | Resulted because of the Sputnik shock, it directed the U.S efforts to build missiles and explore outer space. | 24 | |
| 63573151 | U-2 incident | In which the Russians shot down a high altitude US spy plane over the Soviet Union; this incident exposed a secret US tactic for gaining information. | 25 | |
| 63573152 | Fidel Castro | led the revolution of Cuba and took control of Cuba in 1959, made Cuba communist | 26 | |
| 63573156 | Jackie Robinson | First African American baseball player to be hired by the Brooklyn Dodgers. | 27 | |
| 63573158 | Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka | landmark case that ruled that "seperated but equal" established by Plessy v. Ferguson to be unconstitutional. | 28 | |
| 63573159 | Earl Warren | Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who wrote the unanimous opinion for Brown v. Board of Education | 29 | |
| 63573160 | Little Rock crisis | In which a governor from the Deep South used the state's national guard to prevent nine black students from entering Little Rock Central High School. | 30 | |
| 63573161 | Rosa Parks | African American woman who refused to give up her seat in the bus. | 31 | |
| 63573162 | Montgomery bus boycott | protest in 1955-1956 by African Americans against racial segregation in bus system of Montgomery, Alabama. | 32 | |
| 63573163 | Martin Luther King. Jr | African American civil rights leader who became the spoke person for the Montgomery boycott. | 33 | |
| 63573164 | civil rights acts of 1957, 1960 | Laws signed by Eisenhower to protect blacks' rights, they were the first such laws to be enacted by the U.S Congress since Reconstruction. | 34 | |
| 63573165 | Civil Rights Commision | EStablished by the civil right acts of 1957, 1960 to protect the voting rights of blacks. | 35 | |
| 63573166 | Southern Christian Leadership Conference | Organized by MLK, it organized ministers and churches in the South to get behind the civil right struggle. | 36 | |
| 63573168 | sit-in movement | started by African American students after being refused service at segregated Woolworth's luch counter. | 37 | |
| 63573169 | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee | Formed to keep the sit-in movement organized. | 38 | |
| 63573170 | corporate America | Dress Suits, Vacations, White Collar Jobs, Fortune 500 Companies, suburban homes, new cars, etc. were all characteristics of Corporate America. | 39 | |
| 63573172 | David Riesman, The Lonely Crowd | Harvard sociologist who criticized the replacement of "inner-directed" individuals in society with "other directed" conformists. | 40 | |
| 63573173 | Beatniks | small group of writers and artists criticized what they saw as the growing materialm of american society and its lack of individuality | 41 |
