The Cold War in the 1950s
During the early days of the Vietnam War, the US provided 75% of the funding for the war for this European ally.
What is France?
These were two of the three reasons for an increase in agricultural production in the US in the 1950s.
What is specialization, fertilizer, and mechanization?
This large scale boycott of segregation in public transportation occurred in this southern city.
What is Montgomery, AL?
This refers to the surge in the American birthrate between 1945-1965.
What is baby boom?
This genre of music emerged in the 1950s as a blend of country and blues and was heavily influenced by Black musicians.
What is rock and roll?
He was appointed leader of the Montgomery Improvement Association and appeared on the cover of Time magazine in 1957.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr?
He was the opposition leader in the Cuban Revoluntion.
Who is Fidel Castro?
This US policy intended to get the Soviet Union as close to war as possible without triggering an attack.
What is brinkmanship?
The television, credit cards, and increasing population all led to the birth of this in the 1950s.
What is consumer culture?
This landmark Supreme Court civil rights case ended segregation in elementary and secondary schools.
What is Brown vs Board of Education?
This policy said the US would actively combat communism in the Middle East.
What is the Eisenhower Doctrine?
This refers to the West, Southwest, and South which grew rapidly after WWII.
What is the Sun Belt?
He was the civil rights lawyer for the NAACP that oversaw the case ending segregation in education.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
He was an evangelical minister in the 1950s who held revivals across the United States.
Who is Billy Graham?
The National Defense Education Act was passed in response to this event.
What is the Soviets successfully launching Sputnik into orbit?
These are three of the effects that the Interstate Highway and Defense System Act affected the United States.
What are "white flight", growth of the suburbs, increased pollution, shrinking of small towns that were bypassed, division of communities, growth of the automobile industry, increase in trucking, etc?
The Indian Relocation Program encouraged Native Americans to do this?
What is move to cities?
This refers to the cozy relationship between the government and defense contractors.
What is military industrial complex?
This term refers to the standoff between the US and Soviet Union and that if one country struck first both would be annihilated.
What is Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)?
He was the less extreme successor to Josef Stalin in the Soviet Union.
Who is Nikita Krushchev?
He was the communist leader of North Vietnam.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
When the US backed out of assisting Egypt with building a dam on the Nile, Egypt seized this, leading to a brief war with Israel.
What is the Suez Canal?
Eisenhower's belief in less government involvement in economic and social issues, as well as a more moderate approach to politics is known as this.
What is "modern Republicanism"?
The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s could be described as this which means happening among individuals at the local level.
What is grassroots?
Idea of containment held by Eisenhower that if one country fell to communism others would soon as well.
What is Domino Theory?
He was the Secretary of State in the Eisenhower administration and believed the US should get the Soviet Union as close to war as possible without triggering an attack.
Who is John Dulles?
He was the Prime Minister of Iran the US had overthrown after nationalizing the oil industry.
Who is Muhammad Mossadegh?
The US led a covert coup of this country's leader after he attempted to nationalize the agriculture industry and redistribute land to the poor.
What is Guatemala?
This is the term for the artists and intellectuals who pushed back against American culture in the 1950s, particularly in New York and San Francisco.
Who are the Beats?
This Supreme Court case called the exclusion of Mexican Americans in juries unconstitutional.
What is Hernandez v Texas?
He was the democratically elected president the US had overthrown in a Latin American nation in 1954.
Who is Jacobo Arbenz?
He was the Iranian shah that the United States propped up until he was overthrown in the Iranian Revolution.
Who is Mohammad Resa Pahlavi?