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Fifties
Fifties Domestic Policies
Question | Answer |
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Phrased coined by Eisenhower in his last State of the Union Address; warned the US against it because he felt the combined lobbying efforts of the armed services and defense industries would lead to excessive Congressional spending | Military-Industrial Complex |
Policy agenda of Truman: raising the minimum wage, expanding Social Security, and providing government funding for public housing and urban renewal | Fair deal |
Started because of the flood of available workers after WWII; Established the Council of Economic Advisers; Declared that the government was committed to maintaining maximum employment | Employment Act of 1946 |
Ran for president in 1948 on the Progressive ticket | Henry Wallace |
Amended the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 and imposed certain restriction on the money and power of labor unions, including a prohibition against mandatory closed shops; vetoed by Truman, but passed over his veto | Taft-Hartley Act |
Site of crisis when the governor tried to prevent nine black students from registering; Eisenhower sent in US paratroopers to ensure the students could attend class | Little Rock Central High School |
Granted $13 billion in aid for former servicemen, such as educational grants to housing and other services | G.I. Bill of Rights |
Began when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat; started the Civil Rights Movement | Montgomery Bus Boycott |
Ran for president in 1948 as a States' Rights Democrat of Dixiecrat | Strom Thurmond |
Ran for president in 1948 as a Republican | Thomas Dewey |
Committee to monitor activities of foreign agents; investigated the supposed communist infiltration of the US government and Hollywood film industry | House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) |
Overruled Plessy v. Ferguson and declared that racially segregated facilities are inherently unequal | Brown v. Board of Education |
Arrested and convicted of conspiring to commit espionage by passing plans for the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union; executed in 1953 | Julius and Ethel Rosenberg |
Created the US Commission of Civil Rights and the Civil Rights division of the Justice Department | Civil Rights Act of 1957 |
Created the cabinet post of Secretary of Defense, the CIA, and the national Security Council | National Security Act of 1947 |
Former State Department official who was accused of being a Communist spy and was convicted of perjury | Alger Hiss |
Created a multi-million dollar loan fund for college students and granted money to states for upgrading curriculum in the sciences and foreign languages; was a response to Sputnik | National Defense Education Act |
Asserted that the US State Department had been infiltrated by Communists; Chair of the Senate Sub-Committee on Investigations and accused the Army of covering up foreign espionage | Joseph McCarthy |
Required Communists to register and prohibited them from working for the government | McCarran Internal Security Act |
A report by the President's Committee on Civil rights; given a year after the Committee was formed and helped pave the way for the civil rights era; recommended that the government start an anti-lynching campaign and ensure that Blacks got to vote | "To Secure These Rights" |
Witness who accused Alger Hiss of being a Communist spy | Whitaker Chambers |