Chapter 37: The Eisenhower Era

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