The Eisenhower Era Flashcards

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