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Soviet leader after the death of Stalin

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Nikita Khrushchev

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Term created by Eisenhower that described weapons makers and military influence on US foreign-policy

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“Military-industrial” complex

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Term that referred to idea that a nuclear attack by one nation would result in the destruction of both nations

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Mutual assured destruction (MAD)

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Cuban dictator in 1950s; overthrown by communist revolution in 1959

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Fulgencio Batista

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Cuban communist leader Who overthrew US backed dictatorship in 1959

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Fidel Castro

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Communist nationalist leader of Vietnamese

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Ho Chi Minh

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Fortress or French were defeated by Vietminh in Vietnam in 1954; resulted in French withdrawal and American involvement in Vietnam

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Dien bien phu

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After French defeat, these split Vietnam at the 17th parallel into communist north, non communist south

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Geneva peace accords, 1954

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Idea that if one country in Southeast Asia was allowed to fall to Communists others would soon follow

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Domino theory

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Cited national security reasons to build interstate highways (troop/nuke movements)

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Highway act of 1956

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Term created by David Riseman of Harvard referred to concept that people measured themselves against images created by mass media

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“Other-directed” society

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Cultural controversy of the 1950s that claimed American culture was becoming too standardized

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Mass culture debate

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Said women were natural child rearers; future of US depended on their role; parenting books that promoted traditional gender roles for women

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Dr.Benjamin Spock

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Example of youths revolt against conformity; first great “rock ‘n roll” star, lyrics and moves seen as sexually promiscuous and “black”

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Elvis Presley

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Example of male revolt against conformity, founded playboy magazine

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Hugh Hefner

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Example of female revolt against conformity; method of contraception that became available in 1960

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Birth control pill (life savers)

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Leader of NAACP in 1950s; later became 1st Supreme Court justice

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Thurmond Marshall

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Chief Justice of Supreme Court appointed by Eisenhower moderate views helped civil rights movement

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Earl warren

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Court case that ruled state mandated segregation of schools violated by constitution (equal protection under law)

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Brown v Board of Education of Topeka (1954)

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Court case that ruled desegregation would move forward “with all deliberate speed”

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Brown II (1955)

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100 members of congress denounce Supreme Court segregationist rulings and said they would support any legal resistance

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Southern manifesto

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Black woman whose refusal to relinquish her seat on bud sparked awareness of civil rights in 1954

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Ross Parks aka Shereen (shereen is a bad bitch)

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His leadership of Montgomery bus boycott makes him the leader of the entire civil rights movement to many

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My boy Martin Luther King

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Civil rights organization of MLK that demanded desegregation of public facilities, started voter registration drive, and promoted passive civil disobedience

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Southern Christian leadership conference (SCLC)

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Expedited lawsuits by African-Americans who claimed voting rights were violated and created commission on civil rights to advise government on issues

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Civil rights act of 1957

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High school that was forcibly desegregated by US troops in 1957 on the orders of Eisenhower

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Little rock central high school

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Claimed US was becoming “other directed” society of conformists

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David Riseman (Harvard)

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Write The Affluent s

Society; claimed wealthy Americans needed to spend more for common good

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John Kenneth Galbraith

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Wrote the catcher in the Rye; showed individual struggle against conformity (Holden Caulfield) and refers to “phoniness” of society

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J.D. Salinger

His name makes him sound like a phony

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Leader of Beats; wrote on the road; rebelled against conformity by promoting spontaneity, drugs, improvised jazz, and unorthodox literary styles to rebel against conformity

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Jack Kerouac

My kind of man

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Senator from Arizona who started modern conservative movement (reducing support of civil rights and domestic programs, tougher policies toward USSR

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Barry Goldwater

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First artificial satellite in space launched by USSR in 1957

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Sputnik

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Space agency founded largely as reaction to Soviet launch of Sputnik

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National aeronautics and space administration (NASA)

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Failed 1961 invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles lacked enough American support

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Bay of pigs invasion

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1962 crisis in which Soviet attempted to place nuclear missiles in Cuba JFK responded with blockade

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Cuban missile crisis

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Largest civil rights march of 1960s MLK gave I have a dream speech

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March on Washington (1963)

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Wrote the feminine mystique (1963) complained about confinement to home and lack of career opportunities for women

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Betty Friedan

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Conservative female activist who believed equality with men would take away many of their privileges in society (like exemption from draft)

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Phyllis schafly

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Accused assassin of JFK assassinated by jack ruby

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Lee Harvey Oswald

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Commission set up to investigate JFK and Oswald assassinations; said both Oswald and Ruby acted alone

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Warren commission