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| Dwight D. Eisenhower | Republican and VP Richard Nixon won the election
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| Nixon | accused of profitting from campain contributions
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| Checkers speech | went on TV to defend himself
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| An American Dilemma | all men are created equal (so says US) yet didnt treat blacks like that, only token acts
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| Brown vs. BOE Topeka | said Plessy vs. Ferguson was unconstitutional and public schools were to be integrated
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| Thurgood Marshall | lawyer for the Brown family
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| Earl Warren | chief Justice of brown, liberal judge
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| Rosa Parks | refused to give up her seat and move to the back of the bus which segregation required her to do
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| Montgomery Bus Boycott | NAACP protested the arrest of Rosa Parks for 381 days
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| MLK Jr. | organzed and led the boycott, passive resistance, non violent protest
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| CORE | helped to organze the bus boycotts, sit ins, freedom rides
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| Little Rock Crisis | the gov. of arkansas didn't enforce integration at little rock central high. Ike sent in military to enforce integration, thought this was a state issue
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| Grassroots Movement | civil rights movement, started by the people, not politicians, etc.
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| SCLC | staged protest and pushed for voter registration
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| SNCC | get college students involved in the civil rights movement
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| Civil Rights Act | set up a commision to investige violations of civil rights and authorized federal injunctions to protect voting rights
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| Greensboro NC | students sat at an all white lunch counter and refused to move, this was seen by some as the beginning of the sit in movement
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| Dynamic Conservatism | Ike, be liberal when dealing w/ the people, conservative in gvt.
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| Social Issues | more state control, against free distribution of polio vaccine (socialized medicine), tried to undercut New Deal Policies
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| John Foster Dulles | Ike's sec of state, massive retaliation, use everything you have against your enemies
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| French | controlled southest asia (indochina) since the late 1800s (imperial rule)
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| Ho Chi Minh | led the communist party in vietnam (Indochina)
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| Vietminh | viatnamesse communist party
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| Domino Theory | fear that if one country falls to communism all those around it will
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| Dien Bien Phu | vietnamese attacked then took it over, after this the french left vietnam
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| Geneva Accords | divide Vietnam at the 17th parallel and called for national elections in 1956
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| Ngo Dihn Diem | controlled the south
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| Vietcong | formed in south vietnam, but supported the north (communist), VC, Charlie
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| Ho Chi Minh Trail | a series of trails to supply the VC
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| Khrushchev | became the leader of USSR after stalin
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| Eisenhower Doctrine | gave aid to fight communism in the middle east
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| OPEC | controlled oil in the world, still around
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| Sputnik | first artificial satellite in space, USSR 1957
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| National Defense Education Act | more focus on science, math, foreign language, due to Sputnik
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| ICBM | America's 1st was Atlas 1959
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| U-2 | spy plane to spy on the soviet union
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| Gary Francis Powers | was brought down by the soviets and accused of spying, May 1st ( May Day)
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| NASA | established under Ike in 1958
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| Fidel Castro | led a communist rebellion in Cuba and took control in 1959
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| Massive Spending | 50's economy, after WW2, consumer debt rises, credit card debt. increases
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| Videotape | began being used by TV companies instead of live TV by 1960
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| Critics of TV | stereotypes of women, male dominated shows, only showed middle class white america
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| NBC | nationwide color TV was introduced, but not widespread until the 60s
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| Elvis Presley | called the king of rock and roll, brought R & B music to white america
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| The Beatles | led the british invasion of the 60s, parents and children listened to the same music
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