United States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery (Alabama) and so triggered the national civil rights movement (born in 1913)
  • Joseph McCarthy
  • Rosa Parks
  • Ho Chi Minh
  • Fidel Castro
The term associated with Senator Joseph McCarthy who led the search for communists in America during the early 1950s through his leadership in the House Un-American Activities Committee.
  • feminism
  • Suez Crisis
  • Missile Gap
  • McCarthyism
This was a white supremacist organization formed inIt amounted to about 60,000 members, most being in the South. It opposed integration and fought for the protection of the "European-American" culture against other ethnicities. Members were highly associated with the KKK.
  • South East Asia Treaty Organization
  • Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • White Citizen's Councils
  • Geneva Conference
First artificial Earth satellite, it was launched by Moscow in 1957 and sparked U.S. fears of Soviet dominance in technology and outer space. It led to the creation of NASA and the space race.
  • Suez Crisis
  • Sputnik
  • desegregation
  • Missile Gap
The "new look" defense policy of the Eisenhower administration of the 1950's was to threaten "massive retaliation" with nuclear weapons in response to any act of aggression by a potential enemy.
  • massive retaliation
  • Missile Gap
  • Eisenhower Doctrine
  • desegregation
A conference between many countries that agreed to end hostilities and restore peace in French Indochina and Vietnam.
  • Nikita Khrushchev
  • White Citizen's Councils
  • South East Asia Treaty Organization
  • Geneva Conference
When the Hungarians tried to win their freedom from the Communist regime in 1956, they were crushed down by Soviet tanks. There was killing and slaughtering of the rebels going on by military forces.
  • Geneva Conference
  • Gamal Abdel Nasser
  • Hungarian Revolt
  • Ngo Dinh Diem
Betty Friedan's 1963 book that launched a revolution against the suburban "cult of domesticity" that reigned in the 1950s
  • "creeping socialism"
  • Eisenhower Doctrine
  • desegregation
  • The Feminine Mystique
(NDEA) After the Russian satellite "Sputnik" was successfully launched, there was a critical comparison of the Russian to the American education system. The American education system was already seen as too easygoing. So in 1958 Congress made the NDEA, authorizing $887 million in loans to needy college students and in grants for the purpose of improving the teaching of the sciences and languages.
  • National Defense and Education Act
  • South East Asia Treaty Organization
  • Landrum-Griffith Act
  • John F. Kennedy
Russian premier after Stalin. Led de-Stalinization of Russia. A reformer who argued for major innovations.
  • Nikita Khrushchev
  • Gamal Abdel Nasser
  • Ngo Dinh Diem
  • Fidel Castro
Author of The Feminine Mystique and the first president of the National Organization for Women
  • Betty Friedan
  • John F. Kennedy
  • Earl Warren
  • Nikita Khrushchev
president during part of the cold war and especially during the superpower rivalry and the cuban missile crisis. he was the president who went on tv and told the public about the crisis and allowed the leader of the soviet uinon to withdraw their missiles. other events, which were during his terms was the building of the berlin wall, the space race, and early events of the Vietnamese war.
  • Earl Warren
  • John F. Kennedy
  • Betty Friedan
  • Joseph McCarthy
court found that segregation was a violation of the Equal Protection clause "separate but equal" has no place
  • South East Asia Treaty Organization
  • Betty Friedan
  • Brown v. Board of Education
  • Plessy v. Ferguson
the abolishment of racial segregation, which happened due to the work of Civil Rights leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • U-2 Incident
  • Suez Crisis
  • Missile Gap
  • desegregation
The incident when an American U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union. The U.S. denied the true purpose of the plane at first, but was forced to when the U.S.S.R. produced the living pilot and the largely intact plane to validate their claim of being spied on aerially. The incident worsened East-West relations during the Cold War and was a great embarrassment for the United States.
  • Missile Gap
  • The Feminine Mystique
  • U-2 Incident
  • Suez Crisis
Arab leader, set out to modernize Egypt and end western domination, nationalized the Suez canal, led two wars against the Zionist state, remained a symbol of independence and pride, returned to socialism, nationalized banks and businesses, limited economic policies
  • Gamal Abdel Nasser
  • Joseph McCarthy
  • Nikita Khrushchev
  • Martin Luther King, Jr.
Eisenhower first coined this phrase when he warned American against it in his last State of the Union Address. He feared that the combined lobbying efforts of the armed services and industries that contracted with the military would lead to excessive Congressional spending.
  • Missile Gap
  • Eisenhower Doctrine
  • military-industrial complex
  • The Feminine Mystique
1950s; Wisconsin senator claimed to have list of communists in American gov't, but no credible evidence; took advantage of fears of communism post WWII to become incredibly influential; "McCarthyism" was the fearful accusation of any dissenters of being communists
  • Gamal Abdel Nasser
  • Fidel Castro
  • Ho Chi Minh
  • Joseph McCarthy
When the United States was in desperate need of a labor reform, because many union leaders and big industries were involved in many scandals, Congress passed this act to prevent bullying tactics and make labor leaders keep accurate financial records.
  • Landrum-Griffith Act
  • Civil Rights Act of 1957
  • National Defense and Education Act
  • Plessy v. Ferguson
Eisenhower proposed and obtained a joint resolution from Congress authorizing the use of U.S. military forces to intervene in any country that appeared likely to fall to communism. Used in the Middle East.
  • "creeping socialism"
  • Missile Gap
  • Eisenhower Doctrine
  • military-industrial complex
The United States and the Soviet Union were involved in a race to discover who had more missiles and war equipment. The missile gap was the difference in how much the United States had compared to how much the Soviet Union had.
  • desegregation
  • Missile Gap
  • U-2 Incident
  • Suez Crisis
the 1957 act which set up a permanent Civil Rights Commission to investigate civil rights violations and authorized the use of injunctions to protect voting rights
  • Landrum-Griffith Act
  • National Defense and Education Act
  • Civil Rights Act of 1957
  • White Citizen's Councils
an international organization for collective defense primarily created to block during communism gains in Southeast Asia. Signed by—Australia, France, New Zealand, Thailand, Pakistan, Philippines, Taiwan (Republic of China), UK, US, and support from South Korea and Vietnam.
  • National Defense and Education Act
  • White Citizen's Councils
  • South East Asia Treaty Organization
  • Landrum-Griffith Act
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