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The Eisenhower Era
Mrs. Shelton
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| In the 1952 campaign of what did the eisenhower nixon make the first really effective use? | TV |
| Who was the popular religious evangelical who effectively used the new medium of TV? | Billy Graham |
| How did eisenhower present himself to the public? | Non partisan |
| What type of leadership style did eisenhower present? | Reassurance, sincerity and optimism (This was a popular style) |
| Who was the soldier who kept the nation at peace for most of his two terms and ended up warning america about the 'military-industrial complex? | Eisenhower |
| Who was the eloquent Democratic presidential candidate who was twice swamped by a popular Republican war hero? | Adli Stevenson II |
| What is a term for making ruthless unfair charges against opponents such as those leveled by a red hunting wisconsin senator in the 1950s | McCarthyism |
| Why did Eisenhower initially hesitate to oppose Senator Joseph McCarthy? | Political Popularity and Power |
| When did McCarthy lose his power and his anticommunist crusade collapse | He attacked the US army for alleged communist influence |
| How did the Korean war end? | A stalemate armistice and continued division of korea at the 38th parallel |
| How did the Supreme court rule in Brown v. Board of Education? | Segregation was unequal. Overturned Plessy vs Fergeson 1898 |
| What forced president eisenhower to send federal troops to little rock? | Governor used the national guard to prevent integration |
| How did eisenhower use his influence as president in the civil rights movement | Tried not to |
| Who was the controversial jurist who led the supreme court into previously off-limits social and racial issues? | Warren |
| Who was the black minister? | Martin Luther King Jr. |
| What event precipitated Dr. Martin luther King, jr.'s civil rights movement | The montgomery bus boycott |
| What was the primary impetus for civil rights within the federal government | Supreme court |
| What was the institutional foundation of the southern christian leadership coalition | black churches |
| How did eisenhower try and control military spending | reliance on nuclear forces |
| What was Eisenhower's basic approach to domestic economic policy? | to trim back some new deal programs but keep most |
| Despite his fiscal conservatism, how did eisenhower actually outdo the New deal in spending | Interstate highway system |
| In the hungarian crisis | US retreated from Secretary of state dulle's talk of rolling back |
| Who was the blustery soviet leader who frequently challenged eisenhower with both threats and diplomacy? | KHRUSCHEV |
| what was the doctrine upon which eisenhower and dulles based american nuclear policy in the 1950's? | Massive retaliation |
| in 1954 what was Eisenhower's response to the French in Vietnam? | Refused to send American Troops |
| What was an asian alliance | SEATO South East Asian Treaty Organization |
| How did the US first become involved in Vietnam? | Providing economic aid to the french colonists fighting Ho CHin Mihn |
| Who was the vietnamese nationalist and communist whose defeat of the Frecnh led to calls for American intervention. | Ho Chin Mihn |
| What was the anticommunist leader? | Dgo Dihn Diem |
| What caused the Suez Crisis | Egyptian president Nasser's nationalisation of the suez canal? |
| How did president Eisenhower force britain, France and Israel to withdraw from their seizure of the suez canal? | Withholding american oil reserves from the allies. |
| In the 1950' where did the major threat to American interests in the middle east come from? | Revived Arab nationalism and its control of oil |
| In the 1950 what caused Latin Americans to demonstrate hostility toward the US | For supporting anticommunist dictators and ignoring Latin interests |
| What was the Latin american Nation where a 1950 communist revolution ousted a US backed dictator? | Cuba |
| Who was the Latin American revolutionary who became economically and militarily dependent on the Soviet Union | Fidel Castro |
| What was the key economic transformation in 1950 | Growth of white collar jobs into a majority replaced blue collar factory labor |
| Major international copration that symbolized the early computer and info age | IBM International Business machines |
| Red hunter turned the world traveling diplomat and narrowly missed becoming president | Nixon |
| What was the high flying american spy plane? | U2 |
| What meeting did the U2 undermine | Paris Summit |
| Main issue of kennedy's campaign? | US had fallen behind ind power and prestige |
| What raised this issue | Crash of the sputnik |
| How was senator Kennedy able to deal with his Catholicism | Neutralized the issue by talking to protestant ministers |
| What enabled the democrats to win a narrow victory in 1960? | Kennedy did well in TV debate with Nixon and he was a good politician |
| Betty Friedens book | Féminine Mystique |
| Tough teamster boss | Hoffa |
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caitlin.mclain