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Eisenhower
Chapter 40
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1952 Election | Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower and VP Richard Nixon won |
| Checkers Speech | Nixon was accused of profiting from campaign contributions and he went on tv to defend himself |
| An American Dilemma | all men are created equal so says the US yet they didn't treat blacks like that; only token acts |
| Brown vs. Board of Education 1954 | Topeka Kansas; said Plessy vs. Ferguson was unconstitutional and public schools were to be integrated; Thurgood Marshall was the lawyer for the Brown Family; Earl Warren was the Chief Justice (a liberal justice) |
| Rosa Parks Dec. 1955 | she refused to give up her seat and move to the back of the bus which segregation required her to do |
| Montgomery Bus Booycott | NAACP protested Rosa Parks with this lasting 381 days; Martin Luther King Jr. organized and led the boycott; resistance: non-violent protest |
| CORE | helped to organize buss boycotts, sit-ins, and freedom rides |
| Little Rock Crisis 1957 | government of Arkansas didn't enforce integration of Little Rock Central High School; Ike had to send in the military to enforce integration; Ike thought this was a state issue |
| Grassroots Movement | the civil rights movement was one of these; it started with people, not politicians |
| Southern Christian Leadership Conference | staged protests and pushed for voter registrations |
| Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee | to get college students involved in the civil rights movement |
| Civil Rights Act 1957 | set up a commission to investigate violations of civil rights and authorized federal investigations to protect voting rights |
| Greensborough, NC February 1960 | 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 |
| Dynamic Conservatism | Ike; be liberal in dealing with people and conservative in govt. |
| Social Issues | more state control; against free distribution of polio vaccinations (socialized medicine); tried to undercut New Deal policies |
| John Foster Dulles | secretary of state under Eisenhower |
| Massive Retaliation | use everything you have against your enemies, even nuclear weapons |
| Vietnam/Southeast Asia/Indochina | the French control this area since the late 1800's |
| Ho Chi Minh | led the communist party in Vietnam |
| Vietminh | Vietnamese communist party |
| Domino Theory | fear that if one country falls to communism, then all those around it will fall too |
| Dien Bien Phu | Vietnamese attacked this and then took it over; after this, the French left Vietnam |
| Geneva Accords 1954 | this would divide Vietnam at the 17th parallel and called for national elections in 1956 |
| Ngo Dihn Diem | south Vietnam controlled by this person |
| Vietcong | formed in south Vietnam but supported the north(communist/VC/Charlie) |
| Ho Chi Minh Trail | was a series of trails to supply the VC/Vietcong |
| Nikita Krushchev | became the leader of USSR after Stalin |
| Eisenhower Doctrine | give aid to fight communism in th Middle East |
| OPEC | Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries; oil in the world was and still is controlled by them |
| Sputnik 1957 | 1st artificial satellite in space by USSR |
| National Defense Education Act 1958 | more focus on science, math, and foreign languages due to Sputnik |
| ICBM | Intercontinental Ballistic Missile; America's 1st blank was the Atlas in 1959 |
| U-2 | a spy plane used to spy on USSR |
| Gary Francis Powers | was brought down by the Soviets and accused of spying |
| NASA 1958 | established under Eisenhower |
| LatinAmerica | Fidel Castro (a communist) led a rebellion in Cuba and took control in 1959 |
| 50's Economy | massive spending in the US after WWII; consumer debt rises; creit card use increased |
| Television | videotape began being used by tv companies instead of live tv by the 1960's |
| TV Critics | stereotypes of women, male dominated shows, only showed middle class white America |
| Color TV | this was introduced nationwide by NBC in 1954 but was not used widespread untill the 1960's |
| Elvis Presley | the King of Rock and Roll; brought rythm and blues music to white America |
| The Beatles | led the British Invasion of the 1960's; parents and kids listened to the same music |
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