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Chapter 38 APUSH
Cornel Replacement Notes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What happened in the election of 1952? | Eisenhower won by a large majority. |
| Why did McCarthy fall? | He blamed the Army for hiding Communists and the country wasn't happy about it |
| What happened in Sweatt v Painter? | The court ruled that separate schools didnt meet the standards for equality |
| What happened in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas? | they ruled for the integration of schools |
| What was the Interstate Highway Act of 1956? | it created countless jobs and sped the suburbanization of America as 42,000 miles of highways were built |
| What happened at the Geneva summit conference? | peace with the Soviets |
| What was the Suez Canal Crisis? | when the French and British launched an assault on Egypt. The two countries were forced to withdraw their troops as America refused to release emergency supplies of oil to them |
| What was the Eisenhower Doctrine? | pledging U.S. military and economic aid to Middle Eastern nations threatened by communist aggression |
| When was NASA established? | 1957 |
| When was OPEC established? | 1960 |
| What was the Landrum-Griffin Act? | designed to bring labor leaders to book for financial shenanigans and to prevent bullying tactics. |
| What did the National Defense and Education Act do? | authorized $887 million in loans to needy college students and in grants for the improvement of teaching sciences and languages |
| What was the U-2 Spy Plane incident? | the president said it wasn't a spy plane and that it wasn't American, but got caught in a lie and it was the first scandal of a president getting caught lying to the people. |
| What happened in the election 1960? | Kennedy won |
| Who was the new popular artist? | Elvis Presley |