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History Chapter 24
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) | agency to gather information on foreign nations |
| Allen Dulles | led the CIA |
| John Foster Dulles | secretary of state under eisenhower; proposed brinkmanship policy |
| Eisenhower Doctrine | US will defend the Middle East against communism |
| Nikita Khrushchev | new Soviet leader |
| sputnik | worlds first artificial satellite |
| Explorer 1 | America's "catch up" satellite |
| NASA | establish to improve educational standard to compete in science and technology |
| National Defense Educational Act 1958 | fed. gov't gave money to local schools to improve education |
| Gary Francis Powers | pilot, shot down end of 1950s |
| Adlai Stevenson | Democratic nominee in 1952 election |
| Consumerism | economy flourishes when buying or consuming goods |
| Agribusiness | commercial agriculture |
| Sunbelt | south (warm all-year) |
| frostbelt | North (cold winters) |
| smog | fog + smoke (from factories) |
| baby boom | increase in babies for 20 years |
| suburbanization | population shift from cities to outlying communities |
| William levitt | established housing line methods |
| interstate highway system | cold war evacuation and economic benefits |
| dynamic conservatism | conservative when it comes to money and liberal when it comes to human beings |
| brown vs board of education | desegregated schools |
| liberal consensus | both parties working together; welfare state should be continued and expanded; national security system to fight communism; strong central gov't and strong executive branch |
| homogenity | sameness |
| white flight | from cities to suburbs |
| hydrogen bomb | nuclear weapon more powerful than atomic bomb |
| brinkmanship | willingness to go to brink or edge of war |
| policy of brinkmanship | willingness to risk nuclear war to prevent spread of communism; could prevent spread of communism by promising to use all of its force, including nuclear weapons, against aggressor nations |
| nuclear deterrence | using the threat of a nuclear attack rather than mobilizing the army; involved placing nuclear weapons in numerous safe places so an enemy cannot destroy all of the weapons at once |
| covert action | gathering intelligence and secretly getting involved in the politics and internal affairs of other nations |
| bulwarks | the protective defenses against Soviet expansion into middle East and Africa |
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