Promise to curb federal government and restore state and local government authority, spear headed by President Eisenhower
Moderate Republicanism (pg. 966)
100
By this year 75 percent of American families owned a car
1960 (pg. 970)
100
This writer said that the 1950’s was “one of the worst decades in the history of man”
Norman Miller (pg.980)
100
Principle that formed the basis for legal racial segregation
Separate-but-equal (pg.985)
100
Became the forty-ninth and fiftieth states in 1959
Alaska and Hawaii (pg.1001)
200
Helped create a network of interstate highways, and took 25 years to construct
Federal- Aid Highway Act (pg.969)
200
The first credit card appeared in this year
1949 (pg. 971)
200
Group of bohemian writers, artists, and musicians who flouted convention in favor of liberated convention in favor of liberated forms of self-expression
Beats (pg.981)
200
Landmark Supreme Court case that struck down racial segregation in public schools and declared “ separate-but-equal” unconstitutional.
Brown v. Board of Education (pg.985)
200
Became Cuba’s Communist premier in 1959 after three years of guerrilla warfare
Fidel Castro (pg.1000)
300
Promised “an early and honorable” end to the Korean War
Dwight D. Eisenhower (pg. 967)
300
Provided unemployment, education, and financial benefits for World War II veterans to ease their transition back to the civilian world
GI Bill of Rights (pg.972)
300
Number of race riots in Chicago between 1945-1954
Nine (pg.980)
300
Boycott of bus system in Montgomery, Alabama, organized by civil rights activist after the arrest of Rosa Parks in 1955
Montgomery bus boycott (pg.986)
300
Intelligence- gathering government agency founded in 1947
Central Intelligence Agency (pg.992)
400
“Conservative when it comes to money and liberal when it comes to human beings”
“Dynamic Conservatism” (pg. 968)
400
Communities formed from mass migration of middle-class whites from urban centers
Suburbia (pg.973)
400
By 1959, over a million teens were arrested each year. Many people blamed it on this.
Rock ‘n’ Roll (pg.982)
400
White rallying cry for disrupting federal efforts to enforce racial integration in the South
Massive resistance (pg.989)
400
Communist guerrillas in South Vietnam who launched attacks on the Diem government
Viet Cong (pg. 995)
500
Ran against Eisenhower in the 1952 presidential campaign
Adlai E. Stevenson (pg.967)
500
Markedly high birth rate in the years following World War II, leading to the biggest demographic “bubble” in U.S. history
Baby boom (pg.978)
500
He helped bridge the gap between “white” and “black” music
Alan Freed (pg.982)
500
Civil rights organization formed by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., that championed nonviolent direct action as a means of ending segregation
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (pg. 990)
500
Theory that if one country fell to communism, its neighboring countries would necessarily suit