People
Big Deals
Crises
The 50s
Harbingers
100

This was the main reason Truman fired Gen. Douglas MacArthur.

Insubordination

100

This document declared the U.S. to be leader of the free world.

NSC-68

100

The two European nations involved in the Suez crisis.

England and France

100

He proposed the Federal Highway Act of 1956

Dwight Eisenhower

100

She wrote The Feminine Mystique and called suburbs "comfortable concentration camps."

Betty Friedan

200

He was the Vietnamese commander at Dien Bien Phu.

Ho Chi Minh

200

This caused train travel to decline after 1956.

The Federal Highway Act

200

Cuba fell to him in 1959.

Fidel Castro

200

He was discovered in Tupelo, MS by Col. Tom Parker

Elvis Presley

200

This development of the 40s and 50s is stressing the Social Security System today.

The Baby Boom

300

He wrote the majority opinion in Brown v. Board

Earl Warren

300

The first state to resist Brown v. Board directly.

Arkansas

300

The Berlin Airlift was caused by this act. 

A Soviet blockade of Berlin.

300

This led to a decline in attendance at movie theaters.

Television

300

ENIAC and UNIVAC were the first of this kind of technology in America.

Computers

400

He first proposed the policy of Containment

George Kennan

400

NASA was created in response to this.

Sputnik

400

He claimed to have the names of 205 known communists in the State Department.

Joseph McCarthy

400

He organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Martin Luther King

400

John Foster Dulles proposed this as a way of obtaining concessions from the Soviets.

"Massive Retaliation."

500

He was the first American to orbit the earth.

John Glenn

500

The establishment of the United Nations was agreed to at this meeting.

Yalta

500

This was the first test of NSC-68.

The Korean War

500

The expansion of these led to poverty being concentrated in cities and rural areas.

Suburbs

500

This made the dollar the reserve currency of the world.

Bretton Woods Conference