APUSH CH 38 Terms Flashcards

67446276	McCarthyism	Term for making ruthless and unfair charges against opponents, such as those leveled by a red-hunting Wisconsin senator in the 1950s	0
67446277	Brown V. Board of Education	Supreme Court ruling that overturned the old Plessy V. Ferguson principle that black public facilities could be "separate but equal"	1
67446278	Massive Retaliation	The doctrine upon which Eisenhower and Dulles based American nuclear policy in the 1950s	2
67446279	SEATO	An Asian alliance, set up by Secretary Dulles on the model of NATO, to help support the anti-communist regime in South Vietnam	3
67446280	Suez Canal	The British-and French-owned waterway whose nationalization by Egyptian President Nasser triggered a major Middle East crisis	4
67446281	Sputnik	A soviet scientific achievement that set off a wave of American concern about Soviet superiority in science and education	5
67446282	IBM	Major international corporation that symbolized the early computer and "information age"	6
67446283	U2	High-flying American spy plane, whose downing in 1960 destroyed a summit and heightened Cold War tensions	7
67446284	The Feminine Mystique	Betty Friedan's 1963 book that launched a revolution against the suburban "cult of domesticity" that reigned in the 1950s	8
67446285	Cuba	Latin American nation where a 1959 communist revolution ousted a U.S.-backed dictator	9
67446286	Dwight D. Eisenhower	Soldier who kept the nation at peace for most of his two terms and ended up warning America about the "military-industrial complex"	10
67446287	Joseph R. McCarthy	Reckless and power-hungry demagogue who intimidated even President Eisenhower before his bubble burst	11
67446288	Earl Warren	Controversial jurist who led the Supreme Court into previously off-limits social and racial issues	12
67446289	Martin Luther King, Jr.	Black minister whose 1955 Montgomery bus boycott made him the leader of the civil right movement	13
67446290	Ho Chi Minh	Vietnamese nationalist and communist whose defeat of the French led to calls for American military intervention in Vietnam	14
67446291	Ngo Dinh Diem	Anti-communist leader who set up a Pro-American govt to block Ho Chi Minh's expected takeover of all Vietnam	15
67446292	Betty Friedan	Writer whose 1963 book signaled the beginnings of more extensive feminist protest	16
67446293	Adlai E. Stevenson	Eloquent Democratic presidential candidate who was twice swamped by a popular Republican wear hero	17
67446294	Billy Graham	Popular religious evangelical who effectively used the new medium of tv	18
67446295	James R. Hoffa	Tough Teamster-union boss whose corrupt actions helped lead to passage of the Landrum-Griffin Act	19
67446296	John Foster Dulles	Eisenhower's tough-talking secretary of state who wanted to "roll back" communism	20
67446297	Nikita Khrushchev	Blustery Soviet leader who frequently challenged Eisenhower with both threats and diplomacy	21
67446298	Fidel Castro	Latin American revolutionary who became economically and militarily dependent on the Soviet Union	22
67446299	Richard Nixon	Red-hunter turned world-traveling diplomat who narrowly missed becoming president in 1960	23
67446300	John F. Kennedy	Youthful politician who combined television appeal with traditional big-city Democratic politics to squeak out a victory in 1960	24