Eisenhower's Domestic Policy
Supreme Court names for Chief Justice Earl Warren (1953-1969) who took an activist approach to civil liberties and social issues
Who is the Warren Court?
Communist leader of the Cuban revolution
Who is Fidel Castro?
The focus of society on what money can buy.
What is consumerism?
A list of people who will not be hired in a particular industry.
What is a Blacklist?
A black woman arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus to a white passenger.
Who is Rosa Parks?
The New Union created in 1955 by the merger of the AFL and CIO
What is AFL-CIO?
A policy that implied that the U.S. would go to the brink of nuclear war in order to cause other nations to back down.
What is Brinkmanship?
What is a franchise?
A Senator from Wisconsin who insisted the federal government was full of communists.
Who is Joseph McCarty?
A school in Little Rock, Arkansas, where the governor used the Arkansas National Guard to prevent desegregation in 1956; U.S. Army troops sent to enforce federal law.
What was the Central High School?
A union reform law that addressed union corruption, strikes in critical industries, and the practice of unions forcing members to join.
What is the Landrum-Griffin Act?
The idea that if one country of Southeast Asia fell to communism, the others would fall like dominoes
What is the Domino Theory?
What is the television?
The act of making wild accusations without any proof.
What is McCarthyism?
A Montgomery pastor who believed in nonviolence, led the MIA, and helped organize d the SCLC; became a national leader of the Civil
Rights Movement.
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
Who is Dr. Jonas Salk?
A strongman who took over Egypt in the 1950s.
Who is Gamal Abdel Nasser?
Housing developments outside the cities.
What is a suburb?
A New York couple accused of spying and of running a spy ring for the Soviets; convicted of spying and executed.
Who are Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?
A protest by African American in Montgomery, Alabama, who refused to ride the buses until the segregation policy was abolished.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
World War II general elected as the 34th President as a Republican; served two terms in the White House 1953-1961
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
The U.S. policy that offered economic aid and military intervention to any country in the Middle East that requested help in fighting communism?
What is the Eisenhower Doctrine?
What is a baby boom?
A group of ten from the motion picture industry who refused to answer questions in hearings before the HUAC.
Who are the Hollywood Ten?
Law suit that challenged segregation in public schools; known also as simply Brown v. Board of Education.
What is the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas?