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American Pageant 37
Trainor- AP United States History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| McCarthyism | term for making ruthless and unfair charges against opponents, such as those leveled by a red-hunting wisconsin senator in the 1950's |
| Brown vs. Board of Education | supreme court ruling that overturned the old Plessy vs. Ferguson principle that black public facilities could be "seperate but equal" |
| Massive Retaliation | the doctrine upon which eisenhower and dulles based american nuclear policy in the 1950s |
| South East Asian Treaty Organization | an asian alliance, set up by secretary dulles on the model of NATO, to help support the anticommunist regime in south vietnam |
| Suez Canal | the british-and-french-owned waterway whose nationalization by egyptian president nasser triggered a major middle east crisis |
| Sputnik | a soviet scientific achievement that set off a wave of american concern about soviet superiority in science and education |
| IBM | major international corporation that symbolized the early computer and "information age" |
| U-2 | high-flying american spy plane, whose downing in 1960 destroyed a summit and heightened cold war tensions |
| Cuba | latin american nation where a 1959 communist revolution ousted a U.S.-backed dictator |
| The Feminine Mystique | betty friedan's 1963 book that launched a revolution against the suburban "cult of domesticity" that reigned in the 1950's |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | the soldier who kept the nation at peace for most of his two terms and ended up warning america about the "military-industrial complex" |
| Joseph R. McCarthy | reckless and power-hungry demagogue who intimidated even president eisenhower before his bubble burst |
| Earl Warren | controversial jurist who led the supreme court into previously off-limits social and racial issues |
| Martin Luther King Jr. | black minister whose 1955 montgomery bus boycott made him the leader of the civil rights movement |
| Ho Chi Minh | a vietnamese nationalist and communist whose defeat of the french led to calls for american military interention in vietnam |
| Ngo Dinh Diem | anticommunist leader who set up a pro-American government to block ho chi minh's expected takeover of all vietnam |
| Betty Friedan | writer whose 1963 book signaled the beginnings of more extensive feminist protest |
| Adlai E. Stevenson | eloquent democratic presidential candidate who was twice swamped by a popular republican war hero |
| Billy Graham | popular religious evangelical who effectively used the new medium of television |
| James R. Hoffa | tough teamster-union boss whose corrupt actions helped lead to passage of the landrum-griffin act |
| John Foster Dulles | eisenhower's tought-talking secretary of state who wanted to "roll back" communism |
| Nikita Khrushchev | blustery soviet leader who frequently challenged eisenhower with both threats and diplomacy |
| Fidel Castro | latin american revolutionary who became economically and militarily dependent on the soviet union |
| Richard Nixon | red-hunter turned world-traveling diplomat who narrowly missed becoming president in 1960 |
| John F. Kennedy | youthful politician who combined television appeal with traditional big-city democratic politics to squeak out a victory in 1960 |
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