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