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Eisenhower (1953-61)
Domestic and Foreign Policy
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| eisenhower: democrat or republican? | republican |
| democrat that ran against eisenhower twice | adelai stevenson |
| who was eisenhowers VP pick and why | Nixon because he appealed to the anti communist wing of the party |
| what "day" was eisenhower supreme commander of | d-day |
| eisenhower's role in nato | first commander evaaaa |
| what eisenhower was president of besides the USA | columbia university |
| 3 pillars of eisenhower's campaign | corruption, Korea, communism |
| what did nixon do to save his ass | made the checkers speech on TV |
| where did ike promise to go if elected prez and why | korea to end the war |
| what ended the korean war | an armistice |
| how long did it take after ike visited for the war to end | 7 months |
| why was ike the unpolitical president | he did not value social justice |
| joseph mccarthy's 2 nicknames | tailgunner joe, low-blow joe |
| who did joseph mccarthy accuse of being communists in order to get elected | the state department |
| who did joseph mccarthy accuse of communism that got him fired | the army |
| what laws segregated the south in the 50s | jim crow laws |
| NAACP? | National association for the advancement of colored people |
| thurgood marshall | NAACP cheif legal counsel |
| place of bus boycott | montgomery, alabama |
| refused to give up her bus seat | rosa parks |
| what supreme court case integrated schools? | brown v. board of education in topeka kansas |
| orval faubus | governor of arkansas, called in national guard to stop the black students from enrolling at little rock high |
| SCLC | southern christian leadership conference, founded by martin luther king |
| what organization used sit-ins as its main tactic | SNCC student nonviolent coordinating committee |
| operation wetback | apprehended mexicans and returned them to mexico |
| ikes secretary of state | dulles |
| SAC | strategic air command, fleet of superbombers with nukes that ike built up |
| geneva summit | where krushchev rejected ikes proposals to be bffs |
| who appealed to us for help when russia was attacking them? | hungary |
| ikes doctrine to stop communism that said if you attack us or our allies, WE WILL NUKE YOU | massive retaliation |
| when vietnam was divided | geneva conference |
| where vietnam was divided | 17th parallel |
| north vietnam | communist, ho chi minh |
| south vietnam | pro western govt, ngo dinh diem |
| communist version of NATO | warsaw pact |
| what oil rich country was under the influence of the kremlin | iraq |
| what dictator did we install in iraq | mohammad reza pahlevi |
| suez crisis | brit and france almost went to war with egypt and russia because eqypt nationalized the canal |
| eisenhower doctrine | pledged our money and military to any middle east country trying to keep out communism |
| OPEC | organization of petroleum exporting countries |
| when did russia launch their first satellite | 1957 |
| which satellite contained a dog and what was its name | sputnik 2 contained laika or "curly" |
| ICBMs | intercontinental ballistic missiles (what we were afraid russia could use on us after sputnik) |
| when did we get our first satellite | 1960 |
| NDEA | national defense and education act, for science, math, and foreign languages |
| why did we cut off relations with cuba | bacuse castro led a communist revolution and they were buddies with russia |
| what supreme court ruling made it okay to segregate | plessy v. ferguson |
| what girl from kansas was represented in brown v. board | linda brown |
| who represented linda brown | thurgood marshall |
| who was the first black student from the little rock nine to try to integrate schools | elizabeth eckford |
| how long did the lr9 have to keep showing up and being turned away | 3 weeks |
| what did eisenhower do to enable the lr9 to attend classes | federalized national guard |
| who escorted the lr9 to their classes | 101st airborne |
| civil rights act of 1957 | became a federal crime to prevent a qualified person from voting |
| civil rights act of 1960 | wiped out crap restrictions preventing blacks from voting (grandfather clause, literacy test) |
| restaurant where black students started the sit-ins | woolworth's |
| why were sit-ins so effective | they hit businesses right in the pocketbook |
| what p word did eisenhower want from his economy? | prosperity |
| what was eisenhower's main goal for the economy and did he acheive it | balanced budget, no debt grew 9% |
| what was eisenhower worried about spending too much on | the industrial-military complex |
| 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 |
| what country inspired the interstate highway act of 1956 | germany |
| pros/cons of interstate highway act | easier transportation, created jobs/ costed a whole lot |
| why were the 50s called the silent generation | they conformed |
| why was there a crapload of babys born in the 50s and what was it called | everyone came home from war, the baby boom |
| jonas salk | invented polio vaccine at pitt |
| what were suburbs with mass produced bouses originating in NY called | levittowns |
| what expression was coined to describe the new desire to have the same things-technology, etc- as your neighbor | keeping up with the jonses |
| hot electronics | TVs, cars (57 chevy), refirgerators |
| hot fashion | blue jeans, poodle skirts, crew cuts, ponytails, |
| hot toys | hula hoops, silly putty, davy crockett hats |
| sex symbols | marilyn monroe, james dean |
| where did eisenhower go to college | west point |
| what famous general did ike serve under | macarthur |
| what did ike call his containment policy | new look |
| what is the domino theory | if one country falls to communism, they all fall |
| brinkmanship | confronting communism to the brink of war |
| operation ajax | put shah reza pahlavi in power |
| how did we keep Pahlavi under our influence | gave him weapons in exchage for oil |
| what effect did operation ajax have on the iranian ppl | kept them poor |
| SEATO | southeast asia treaty organization- if one country is attacked, they have a meeting |
| what is the matsu and quemoy crisis | when mao bombed taiwan, and our boy chiang kai shek was in trouble |
| mutual defense treaty | we protect taiwan, they protect us |
| formosa resolution | established our commitment to defend taiwan |
| who was making all the money in cuba before their revolution | america |
| what did cuba and russia trade | sugar for weapons |
| who said we will bury you | nikita krushchev |
| what was the open sky policy | ike proposed we trade maps with russia and be allowed to fly freely over russia |
| what does sputnik mean in english | traveling companion |
| why was sputnik the scientific pearl harbor? | the element of surprise |
| what organization was created in response to the space | NASA |
| what was the biggest cold war loss during ikes presidency | sputnik I because there were so many unknowns |
| who flew the U2 spy plane | gary powers |
| where ike was born | texas |
| where ike was raised | kansas |
| where did we apply the domino theory | laos, "key to vietnam region" |
| what did james dean star in | a rebel without a cause |
| longest running tv show in history | gunsmoke |
| best tv show ever | i love lucy |
| cleveland disc jockey | alan freed |
| rock around the clock | bill haley and the comets |
| the king of rock n roll | elvis |
| the catcher in the rye | salinger |
| howl | alan ginsberg |
| on the road | jack kerouac |
| wins in cold war in ikes presidency | iran, quemoy and matsu |
| losses in cold war in ikes presidency | cuba, warsaw pact, sputniks I and II, U2 spy plane |
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