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Eisenhower's Dynamic Conservatism
Growth of the US Economy
Critics of Mainstream Culture
Civil Rights Movement
American Foreign Policy in the 1950s
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Which act was established in 1956 to be considered the biggest federal project in U.S. history that created a national network of interstate highways?
What is the Federal Aid Highway Act?
100
Deemed as the highest birth rate in the years following World War II, leading to the largest demographic "bubble" in U.S. history.
What was the "baby boom?"
100
One of the many critics who challenged what they viewed as the decade's moral complacency and bland conformity.
Who is Norman Mailer?
100
The first African-American appointed to an executive office as Administrative Officer for Special Projects.
Who was E. Frederic Morrow?
100
Intelligence gathering government agency founded in 1947; under President Eisenhower's orders, secretly, undermined elected governments deemed susceptible to communism.
What is the Central Intelligence Agency?
200
The first professional soldier elected president since Ulysses S. Grant in 1868.
Who is Eisenhower?
200
This act was enacted in 1944 to provide unemployment, education, and financial benefits for World War II veterans to ease their transition back to the civilian world.
What was the GI Bil of Rights?
200
A group of bohemian writers, artists, and musicians who flouted convention in favor of liberated forms of self-expression.
Who were the Beats?
200
This organization challenged the separate-but-equal judicial doctrine that had upheld racial segregation, since the Plessy decision by the Supreme Court in 1986.
Who were the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
200
British, French, and Israeli attack on Egypt after Nasser's seizure of the Suez Canal; President Eisenhower interceded to demand the withdrawal of the British, French, and Israeli forces from the Sinai peninsula and the strategic deal.
What was the Suez crisis of 1956?
300
The disclosure of corruption within several federal agencies led Truman to fire 250 employees of this government agency.
What is The Internal Revenue Service?
300
After 1945, a group of more than 5 million African Americans was formed to help search for better jobs, higher wages, decent housing, and greater civil rights.
What was the new "great migration?"
300
A Cleveland disc jockey who coined the term, rock 'n' roll in 1951.
Who was Alan Freed?
300
Landmark supreme court case that struck down racial segregation in public schools and declared "separate-but-equal " unconstitutional.
What was the Brown v. Board of Education case of 1952?
300
The theory that if one country fell to communism, its neighboring countries would necessarily follow suit.
What was the falling domino theory?
400
An Act that was amended in 1954 and 1956, that extended the retirement program to millions of workers formerly excluded--white-collar professionals, maids, and sales-clerks, farm workers, and members of the armed-forces.
What was the Social Security Act?
400
The phrase termed to middle-class women, describing them as happily bound to the house, at work in the kitchen, conversing with children, serving dinner, cleaning, and otherwise displaying the joy of a clean home or the latest kitchen appliance.
What was the "happy homemaker?"
400
This famous musician became the King of Rock and Roll and was picked up by Sam Phillips, during the early 1950s.
Who was Elvis Presley?
400
A boycott of the bus system in Montgomery, Alabama, organized by civil rights activists after the arrest of Rosa Parks in 1955.
What was the Mongomery bus boycott?
400
Communist guerillas in South Vietnam who launched attacks on the Diem government.
Who were the Viet Cong?
500
A promise to restore the authority of state and local governments, and restrain the federal government from engaging in any more political and social "engineering."
What is moderate Republicanism?
500
Communities formed from the mass migration of middle-class whites from urban centers.
What is suburbia?
500
These two issues affected African Americans and other minority groups, during the 1950s amid prosperity.
What was chronic poverty and racial discrimination?
500
The Civil Rights organization established by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that championed nonviolent direct action as a means of ending segregation.
Who was the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)?
500
Which two states became the 49th and 50th state of the U.S. in 1959?
What is Alaska and Hawaii?