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Stufflet Unit 19
Unit 19 APUSH
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| term created by Eisenhower that described weapons makers and military influence on US foreign policy | “military-industrial” complex |
| Soviet leader after the death of Stalin | Nikita Khrushchev |
| term that referred to idea that a nuclear attack by one nation would result in the destruction of both nations | Mutual assured destruction (MAD) |
| Cuban communist leader who overthrew US- backed dictatorship in 1959 | Fidel Castro |
| communist-nationalist leader of Vietnamese | Ho Chi Minh |
| fortress where French were defeated by Vietminh in Vietnam in 1954; resulted in French withdrawal and American involvement in Vietnam | Dien Bien Phu |
| after French defeat, these split Vietnam at the 17th parallel into communist north, non-communist south | Geneva Peace Accords, 1954 |
| idea that if one country in southeast Asia was allowed to fall to communists, others would soon follow | Domino theory |
| Cited national security reasons to build interstate highways (troop/nuke movements) | Highway Act of 1956 |
| term created by David Riesman of Harvard; referred to concept that people measured themselves against images created by mass media | “other-directed” society |
| cultural controversy of the 1950s that claimed American culture was becoming too standardized | Mass Culture Debate |
| example of youth's revolt against conformity; 1st great "rock and roll" star; lyrics and moves seen as sexually promiscuous and "black" | Elvis Presley |
| example of male revolt against conformity; founded Playboy magazine | Hugh Hefner |
| example of female revolt against conformity; method of contraception that became available in 1960 | Birth control pill |
| leader of NAACP in 1950s; later became 1st black Supreme Court justice | Thurgood Marshall |
| Chief Justice of Supreme Court appointed by Eisenhower; moderate views helped civil rights movement | Earl Warren |
| court case that ruled state mandated segregation of schools violated Constitution (equal protection under law) | Brown v Board of Education of Topeka (1954) |
| court case that ruled desegregation would move forward “with all deliberate speed” | Brown II (1955) |
| 100 members of Congress denounce Supreme Court’s segregationist rulings and said they would support any legal resistance | Southern Manifesto |
| black woman whose refusal to relinquish her seat on bus sparked awareness of civil rights in 1954 | Rosa Parks |
| his leadership of Montgomery Bus Boycott makes him the leader of the entire civil rights movement to many | Martin Luther King |
| civil rights organization of MLK that demanded desegregation of public facilities, started voter registration drive, and promoted passive civil disobedience | Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) |
| Expedited lawsuits by African-Americans who claimed voting rights were violated and created Commission on Civil Rights to advise govt on issues | Civil Rights Act of 1957 |
| high school that was forcibly desegregated by US troops in 1957 on the orders of Eisenhower | Little Rock Central High School |
| wrote The Catcher in the Rye; showed individual struggle against conformity (Holden Caufield)and refers to “phoniness” of society | J. D. Salinger |
| leader of Beats; wrote On the Road; rebelled against conformity by promoting spontaneity, drugs, improvised jazz, and unorthodox literary styles to rebel against conformity | Jack Kerouac |
| Senator from Arizona who started modern conservative movement (reducing support of civil rights and domestic programs, tougher policies toward USSR | Barry Goldwater |
| first artificial satellite in space; launched by USSR in 1957 | Sputnik |
| space agency founded largely as reaction to Soviet launch of Sputnik | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) |
| failed 1961 invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles (lacked enough American support) | Bay of Pigs invasion |
| 1962 crisis in which Soviets attempted to place nuclear missiles on Cuba; JFK responded with blockade | Cuban Missile Crisis |
| largest civil rights march of 1960s; MLK gave "I have a dream" speech | March on Washington (1963) |
| wrote The Feminine Mystique (1963); cmplained about confinement to home and lack of career opportunities for women | Betty Friedan |
| conservative female activist who believed equality with men would take away many of their privileges in society (like exemption from draft) | Phyllis Schafly |
| accused assassin of JFK; assassinated by Jack Ruby | Lee Harvey Oswald |
| commission set up to investigate JFK and Oswald assassinations; said both Oswald and Ruby acted alone | Warren Commission |
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