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| eisenhower: democrat or republican? | republican
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| democrat that ran against eisenhower twice | adelai stevenson
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| who was eisenhowers VP pick and why | Nixon because he appealed to the anti communist wing of the party
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| what "day" was eisenhower supreme commander of | d-day
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| eisenhower's role in nato | first commander evaaaa
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| what eisenhower was president of besides the USA | columbia university
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| 3 pillars of eisenhower's campaign | corruption, Korea, communism
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| what did nixon do to save his ass | made the checkers speech on TV
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| where did ike promise to go if elected prez and why | korea to end the war
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| what ended the korean war | an armistice
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| how long did it take after ike visited for the war to end | 7 months
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| why was ike the unpolitical president | he did not value social justice
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| joseph mccarthy's 2 nicknames | tailgunner joe, low-blow joe
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| who did joseph mccarthy accuse of being communists in order to get elected | the state department
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| who did joseph mccarthy accuse of communism that got him fired | the army
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| what laws segregated the south in the 50s | jim crow laws
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| NAACP? | National association for the advancement of colored people
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| thurgood marshall | NAACP cheif legal counsel
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| place of bus boycott | montgomery, alabama
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| refused to give up her bus seat | rosa parks
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| what supreme court case integrated schools? | brown v. board of education in topeka kansas
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| orval faubus | governor of arkansas, called in national guard to stop the black students from enrolling at little rock high
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| SCLC | southern christian leadership conference, founded by martin luther king
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| what organization used sit-ins as its main tactic | SNCC student nonviolent coordinating committee
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| operation wetback | apprehended mexicans and returned them to mexico
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| ikes secretary of state | dulles
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| SAC | strategic air command, fleet of superbombers with nukes that ike built up
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| geneva summit | where krushchev rejected ikes proposals to be bffs
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| who appealed to us for help when russia was attacking them? | hungary
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| ikes doctrine to stop communism that said if you attack us or our allies, WE WILL NUKE YOU | massive retaliation
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| when vietnam was divided | geneva conference
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| where vietnam was divided | 17th parallel
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| north vietnam | communist, ho chi minh
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| south vietnam | pro western govt, ngo dinh diem
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| communist version of NATO | warsaw pact
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| what oil rich country was under the influence of the kremlin | iraq
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| what dictator did we install in iraq | mohammad reza pahlevi
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| suez crisis | brit and france almost went to war with egypt and russia because eqypt nationalized the canal
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| eisenhower doctrine | pledged our money and military to any middle east country trying to keep out communism
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| OPEC | organization of petroleum exporting countries
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| when did russia launch their first satellite | 1957
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| which satellite contained a dog and what was its name | sputnik 2 contained laika or "curly"
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| ICBMs | intercontinental ballistic missiles (what we were afraid russia could use on us after sputnik)
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| when did we get our first satellite | 1960
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| NDEA | national defense and education act, for science, math, and foreign languages
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| why did we cut off relations with cuba | bacuse castro led a communist revolution and they were buddies with russia
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| what supreme court ruling made it okay to segregate | plessy v. ferguson
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| what girl from kansas was represented in brown v. board | linda brown
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| who represented linda brown | thurgood marshall
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| who was the first black student from the little rock nine to try to integrate schools | elizabeth eckford
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| how long did the lr9 have to keep showing up and being turned away | 3 weeks
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| what did eisenhower do to enable the lr9 to attend classes | federalized national guard
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| who escorted the lr9 to their classes | 101st airborne
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| civil rights act of 1957 | became a federal crime to prevent a qualified person from voting
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| civil rights act of 1960 | wiped out crap restrictions preventing blacks from voting (grandfather clause, literacy test)
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| restaurant where black students started the sit-ins | woolworth's
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| why were sit-ins so effective | they hit businesses right in the pocketbook
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| what p word did eisenhower want from his economy? | prosperity
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| what was eisenhower's main goal for the economy and did he acheive it | balanced budget, no debt grew 9%
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| what was eisenhower worried about spending too much on | the industrial-military complex
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| what do people call ike because he did a lot of hard work behind the scenes and didn't like the spotlight | the hidden hand president
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| what country inspired the interstate highway act of 1956 | germany
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| pros/cons of interstate highway act | easier transportation, created jobs/ costed a whole lot
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| why were the 50s called the silent generation | they conformed
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| why was there a crapload of babys born in the 50s and what was it called | everyone came home from war, the baby boom
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| jonas salk | invented polio vaccine at pitt
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| what were suburbs with mass produced bouses originating in NY called | levittowns
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| what expression was coined to describe the new desire to have the same things-technology, etc- as your neighbor | keeping up with the jonses
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| hot electronics | TVs, cars (57 chevy), refirgerators
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| hot fashion | blue jeans, poodle skirts, crew cuts, ponytails,
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| hot toys | hula hoops, silly putty, davy crockett hats
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| sex symbols | marilyn monroe, james dean
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| where did eisenhower go to college | west point
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| what famous general did ike serve under | macarthur
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| what did ike call his containment policy | new look
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| what is the domino theory | if one country falls to communism, they all fall
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| brinkmanship | confronting communism to the brink of war
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| operation ajax | put shah reza pahlavi in power
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| how did we keep Pahlavi under our influence | gave him weapons in exchage for oil
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| what effect did operation ajax have on the iranian ppl | kept them poor
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| SEATO | southeast asia treaty organization- if one country is attacked, they have a meeting
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| what is the matsu and quemoy crisis | when mao bombed taiwan, and our boy chiang kai shek was in trouble
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| mutual defense treaty | we protect taiwan, they protect us
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| formosa resolution | established our commitment to defend taiwan
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| who was making all the money in cuba before their revolution | america
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| what did cuba and russia trade | sugar for weapons
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| who said we will bury you | nikita krushchev
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| what was the open sky policy | ike proposed we trade maps with russia and be allowed to fly freely over russia
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| what does sputnik mean in english | traveling companion
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| why was sputnik the scientific pearl harbor? | the element of surprise
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| what organization was created in response to the space | NASA
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| what was the biggest cold war loss during ikes presidency | sputnik I because there were so many unknowns
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| who flew the U2 spy plane | gary powers
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| where ike was born | texas
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| where ike was raised | kansas
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| where did we apply the domino theory | laos, "key to vietnam region"
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| what did james dean star in | a rebel without a cause
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| longest running tv show in history | gunsmoke
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| best tv show ever | i love lucy
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| cleveland disc jockey | alan freed
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| rock around the clock | bill haley and the comets
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| the king of rock n roll | elvis
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| the catcher in the rye | salinger
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| howl | alan ginsberg
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| on the road | jack kerouac
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| wins in cold war in ikes presidency | iran, quemoy and matsu
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| losses in cold war in ikes presidency | cuba, warsaw pact, sputniks I and II, U2 spy plane
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