APUSH 28
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| 1953-1961 | Eisenhower's administration years
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| Golden Age of the Fifties | idea that the fifties were perfect while they really weren't
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| New Economics | government should regulate and stabilize the economy but not intrude directly in the private sector and taxes should be cut to stimulate growth
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| AFL-CIO | combined two different unions. first leader was George Meany. became more affluent and powerful
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| Teamsters Union (David Beck) | plagued by scandals of corruption and violence
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| George Meany | first leader of AFL-CIO
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| Jimmy Hoffa | part of teamsters union. president
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| "consumer culture" | advertising, new products, credit cards, revolving credit cards, payment plans
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| "Southern Manifesto" of 1956 | the resistance in the South from the idea that segregation should end no matter what
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| Brown v the Board of Education | began the end of segregation. took many years to work. integrated all public schools
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| Thurgood Marshall | led the team of NAACP lawyers in Brown v the Board
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| massive resistance | retaliation in the South against integration
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| Rosa Parks | refused to give up her seat for a white man in Montgomery Alabama
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| Montgomery Bus Boycott | African Americans wanted the integration of buses
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| Joseph McCarthy | McCarthyism. Red Scare. exposed on national television
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| john Foster dulles | secretary of state who shaped foreign policy. "massive retaliation" wanted to bomb china
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| Fidel Castro | came into power in Cuba
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| Nikita Khrushchev | bnew soviet leader. wanted peaceful coexistence
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| U-2 spy plane | shot down over soviet union. gary powers was pilot
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| IBM | manufactures and markets large business systems
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| John Maynard Keynes | British economist whose ideas have profoundly affected the theory and practice of modern macroeconomics, as well as the economic policies of governments
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| William Levitt | "levitt-towns" sub urbanization
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| Dr. Benjamin Spock | wrote Baby and Child Care. instructed womenon how to best raise their children
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| Dr. Joan Salk | developed a vaccine for polio
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| urban renewal program | program of land redevelopment in areas of moderate to high density urban land use
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| soap operas | new form of entertainment. targeted women
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| John Glen | first American to orbit the Earth
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| beats-beatniks | group of intellectuals and rebellious writers led by Jack Kerouac and poet Allen Ginsberg-spontaneity, use of drugs, and social rebellion
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| Little Rock, Arkansas | nine African American students were integrated into a white school
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| Martin Luther King Jr. | leader of nonviolent civil rights movement
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| SCLC | Southern Christian Leadership Conference-under King, organized ministers and churches in South to get them behind civil rights movement
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| massive retaliation | use of nuclear weapons on enemies. John Foster Dulles
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| brinkmanship | the idea that communists would back down if brought to the brink of war due to US nuclear superiority
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| Francis Gary Powers | American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency[1] U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident.
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| Eisenhower Doctrine | economic and military aid would be given to any country threatened by communists
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| Shah Reza Puhlavi | took over government in Iran
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| SEATO | Southwest Asia Treaty Organization. regional defense pact of eight. (US, GB, Fr, Austr, Phil, Thai, Pak)
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| OPEC | Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Iran, Venezuala-organization of petroleum exporting countries
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| Hungary | wanted to pull out of Warsaw Pact and established an increasingly democratic government
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| Highway Act | authorized construction of interstate highway system
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| Nixon | California senator who attacked anti-communists in Alger Hiss case
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| SNCC | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee-sit in movement
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| Kenneth Clark | doll study for brown v board case
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| Elvis Presley | described as white man with a negro sound
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| 17th parallel | where Vietnam was divided
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| Asia, Africa, S. America | third world countries
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| James Dean | rebel without a cause, portrayed the revolt of teenagers
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| Jackie Robinson | broke color line. Brooklyn Dodgers. 1947
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| Hobby | first woman in Republican cabinet
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| 1954 | brown v the board of education
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| 1948 | creation of the state of isreal
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| 1953 | korean armistice
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| France | agreed to give up Indochina
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| Dien Bien Phu | place where the battle took place (fall of indochina)
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