AP US History - 1950's Vocab & People Flashcards

5613818241	Dixiecrats	Southerners who protested Truman's civil rights policy and form State's Rights Democratic Party	0
5613825605	Fair Deal	Truman's economic program which extended FDR's New Deal	1
5613833654	Cold War	state of hostility w/o direct military conflict between US and Soviet Union	2
5613849419	McCarthyism	attacks by Senator Joseph McCarthy and others on people suspected of being Communists in early 1950s	3
5613855460	Suburbs	residential town or community near a city	4
5613858440	Baby Boom	sharp increase in U.S birthrate during 50s	5
5613864001	Brown v Topeka Board of Education	1954 Supreme Court case where Supreme Court ruled "seperate but equal" education for students was unconstitutional	6
5613871393	Blacklist	list of 500 Hollywood entertainers who were not allowed to work on films because of alleged Communism ties	7
5613877116	Eisenhower Doctrine	Commitment to defend Middle East against attack by any communist country	8
5613884069	Planned Obsolescence	designing of products to wear out or become outdated quickly in order to be replaced frequently	9
5613889795	Consumerism	preoccupation with purchasing of material goods	10
5613891842	Franchise	business that bought right to use parent company's name and methods	11
5613896309	Containment	block of another nation's attempt to spread its influence	12
5613899428	Brinkmanship	practice of threatening an enemy with massive military retaliation for any aggression	13
5613906861	Sputnik	world's first artificial satellite launched by Soviet Union which also began the Space Race	14
5613913571	Warsaw Pact	military alliance with Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellites	15
5613922467	United Nations	international peacekeeping organization to which most nations in world belong to promote world peace, security, and economic development	16
5613930737	Beat Movement	social & artistic movement of 50's; stressed nonconformity and self expression	17
5613938874	Iron Curtain	used by Winston Churchill to describe imaginary line that separated Communist Eastern Europe from Free Western Europe	18
5613947578	U2 Incident	downing of US spy plane and capture of its pilot by Soviet Union	19
5613951587	CIA	government agency that uses spies to gather international information and carry covert operations to weaken unfriendly government	20
5613958637	HUAC	congressional committee that investigated Communist influence	21
5613966132	Hollywood Ten	10 witnesses that refuse to cooperate with HUAC investigation of Hollywood	22
5613972037	Termination Policy	US' plan to give up responsibility for Native American tribes	23
5613980709	SCLC	organization by Martin Luther King Jr. to work for civil rights through nonviolent means.	24
5614009276	Mao Zedong	head of Chinese Communists	25
5614011460	Chiang Kai-shek	head of Chinese Nationalists	26
5614017688	Winston Churchill	gave Iron Curtain speech	27
5614021170	Alger Hiss	State Department accused of spying for Soviets	28
5614024774	Ethel and Julius Rosenberg	Husband and wife executed for giving Soviets the secret to making atomic bomb	29
5614035221	Douglas Macarthur	U.S General during most of Korean War	30
5614044160	Matthew Ridgway	took over UN troops after MacArthur during Korean War	31
5614047225	Fidel Castro	leader of Communist Cuba	32
5614056704	Jackie Robinson	first African American allowed to play baseball in the major Leagues	33
5614060375	Dr. Jonas Salk	developed a vaccine for the crippling disease polio in 50s	34
5614064685	Dr. Benjamin Spock	many parents raised their children based on his guidelines	35
5614072717	Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care	name of Spock's book	36
5614077455	Elvis Presley	King of Rock and Roll	37
5614086626	Chuck Berry. Little Richard. Haley and the Comets. The Coasters.	Some other Rock n Roll Musicians	38
5614092426	Thurgood Marshall	lawyer that handled Brown V Board of Education for NAACP	39
5614095994	Rosa Parks	was arrested for not giving up her seat on bus to white man	40
5614099461	Nikita Khrushchev	leader of Soviet Union after Stalin's death	41