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Alger Hiss

Definition

 

Man who was accused of spying for the Soviet Union.

Term

 

 

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Definition

 

Elected president in 1952, came up with the Eisenhower Doctrine. Became president during a bad time, when war broke out and other problems around the world.

Term

 

 

McCarthyism

Definition

 

Unsubstantiated accusations of treason, support of communism of Un-American thinking.

Term

 

 

Sputnik

Definition

 

First orbital satellite put up by the Soviets.

Term

 

Ethel and Julis

Rosenburg

Definition

 

Soviet spies in the U.S. that were sharing American secrets with freign Communists.

Term

 

 

House Un-American Activities Committee

(HUAC)

Definition

 

Agencies investigating possible Communist influence, both inside and outside the U.S. government.

Term

 

 

Elvis Presley

Definition

Unofficial King of Rock 'n' Roll, first developed his musical style by singing in church and listening to gospel, country and blues music on the radio in Memphis, Tennesse.

Term

 

 

Harry S. Truman

Definition

 

became president after FDR's death in 1945

-Truman Doctrine

-gave the order to drop 2 atomic bombs, ending the war (WWII)

Term

 

 

Hollywood Blacklist

Definition

 

10 people were called to testify (against communism) but they refused. In response, these people were listed as having a Communist background.

Term

 

 

NASA

Definition

 

National Aeronautics and Space Administration helped achieve the goal of man on the moon.

Term

 

 

Fallout Shelters

Definition

 

Shelter from war, a place of refuge built to protect people from the effects of a nuclear weapon

Term

 

 

Microwave Technology

Definition

 

High frequencies used to heat up food.

Term

 

Military Industrial

Complex

Definition

 

A nation's armed forces and the industries that supply their equipment, materials, and armaments.

Term

 

National Defense Education

Act

Definition
An act that provides American students with government support for graduate study in science and technology. It was created to improve American education programs in response to the Soviet Union's orbiting of the first artificial satellite.
Term

 

National Highway

Act

Definition
the highway act promised improvement over paved roads by funding the building of wider, safer, more-modern four to eight-lane freeways.
Term

 

 

National Security

Act (1947)

Definition

 

Plan to unify the military departments under the direction of a cabinet-level secretary.
Term

 

 

Pop Culture

Definition

 

More Pop music and Rock 'n' Roll began to come to play.

Term

 

Radio in the

1950s

Definition

 

Show talked about events going on during this time.

Term

 

Selective Service

System

Definition

 

Needing specific skills to enter in the armed forces.

Term

 

Technological Changes:

Mass media

Definition

 

More advertisements, entertainment and communication was being used.

Term

 

Technical Changes:

Communication

Definition

 

Dial telephones soon were used to reach people.

Term

 

Technological Changes:

Military

Definition

 

 

Became intergrated armed forces

Term

 

Technological Changes:

Science

Definition

 

Brought about hydrogen bombs and space systems and missions to the moon.

(Sputnik)

Term

 

Technological Changes:

Medicine

Definition

 

Women's preventive medicine became more affective. Medicine and health care improved and new diagnostic techniques were used.

Term

 

Technological Changes:

Electronics

Definition

 

More Technology was being used, TVs, Radios 

Term

 

Technological Changes:

Data Storage

Definition

 

Data type reels were used to store data on computers.

Term

 

Technological Changes:

Transportation

Definition

 

Motor cars, air travel, railroad travel and sea travel

Term

 

Socio-economic status: Jobs

White Collar

Definition

 

Of or relating to workers whose work usually does not involve manual labor and who are often expected to dress with a degree of formality.

 

Term

 

Socio-economic Status: Jobs

Blue Collar

Definition

 

Of or relating to wage earners, especially as a class, whose jobs are performed in work clothes and often involve manual labor.
Term

 

Socio-economic Status: Jobs

Pink Collar

Definition

 

Of or relating to a class of jobs, such as typist or telephone operator, traditionally filled by women.
Term

 

 

24th Amendment

Definition

 

The right of a citizen to vote in any election and can't be denied for any reason (poll tax).

Term

 

 

Affirmative Action

Definition

 

A policy or program aimed at countering discrimination against minorities and women, especially in employment and education.

Term

 

 

Black Panthers

Definition

 

A militant African American political organization formed to fight police brutality and to provide services in the ghetto.

Term

 

 

Black Power

Movement

Definition

 

Tension between the SNCC and other civil rights groups erupted. Blacks began to stand up for their organizations.

Term

 

 

Brown V. Board of Topeak, Kansas

(1954)

Definition

 

Public schools must be racially

integrated.

Term

 

 

C.O.R.E

Definition

 

Congress of Racial Equality

an interracial group founded to work against segregation in Northern cities.

Term

 

Civil Rights Act

of 1964

Definition

 

Law that banned discrimination on the basis of race, sex, national origin, or religion in public places and most workplaces.

Term

 

 

Earl Warren

Definition

 

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court;

made decision that Brown v. Board of Education was unconstitutional due to segregation.

Term

 

 

Freedom Riders

Definition

 

One of the civil rights activists who rode buses through the South in the early 1960s to challenge segregation.

Term

 

 

George Wallace

Definition

 

Ran as a third-party candidate in the Election of 1968. He was a Democrat running on the American Independent Party ticket. Champion of school segregation and states' rights.

Term

 

 

James Meredith

Definition

 

Won a federal court case that allowed him to enroll in the all-white Ole Miss. When he arrived on campus, they refused to let him register for his classes.

Term

 

 

Little Rock Nine

Definition

 

 

Nine black students that attend Little Rock Nine High School, an all white high school.

Term

 

 

Malcolm X

Definition

 

A Black Muslim who adovacted a more violent approach to the Black community. He promoted Black Nationalism then he started speaking against it.

Term

 

 

Martin Luther King Jr.

Definition

 

Leader of the non-violent protest movement. An Atlanta preacher that recieved the Nobel Peace Prize. He was arrested for the Bus Boycott.

Term

 

 

Montgomery bus boycotts

Definition

 

Finding other ways of transportation instead of riding the bus like car pool or walking long distances in the black community.

Term

 

 

Rosa Parks

Definition

 

Refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man.

Term

 

 

S.N.C.C.

Definition

 

Souther Nonviolent Coordinating Committe is an organization formed to coordinate sit-ins and other protests and to give young blacks a larger role in the civil rights movement.

Term

 

 

Sit-ins

Definition

 

When protesters sit down in a segregated business and refuse to leave until the are served.

Term

 

 

Stokley Carmichael

Definition

 

 

Created the Black Panthers and was involved in the Black Power Movement.

Term

 

 

Thurgood Marshall

Definition

 

First African-American Supreme Court judge. He made the end decision in the Brown v. Board case.

Term

 

Voting Rights Act

of 1965

Definition

 

 

This act eliminated the literacy tests that had kept many people from voting.

Term

 

American Indian

Movement (AIM)

Definition

 

a frequently militant organization that was formed in 1968 to work for Native American rights.

Term

 

 

Betty Friedan

Definition

 

author of The Feminine Mystique

Term

 

British Invasion

(Beatles)

Definition

 

British music came to symbolize the hopes and dreams of a global generation that came of age in the 1960s.

Term

 

 

Ceasar Chavez

Definition

 

a Mexican-American farm worker who was trying to organize a union fo California's mostly Spanish-speaking farm workers. He created the UFW.

Term

 

 

Clean Air Act

Definition

 

 

Gave the authority to the government to set air standards.

Term

 

 

Counterculture

Definition

 

Culture of young people who rejected mainstream American society in the 1960s, seeking t ocreate an alternative society based on peace, love, and individual freedom.

Term

 

 

Great Society

Definition

 

President Lyndon Johnson's program to reduce poverty and racial injustice and to promote a better quality of life in the US.

Term

 

 

Haight-Ashbury

Definition

 

a San Francisco district that became the "capital" of the hippie counterculture during the 1960s.

Term

 

 

Gloria Steinem

Definition

 

A journalist, political activist, and supporter of the women's liberation movement, made her voice heard on the subjects of feminism and equality.

Term

 

 

ICBMs

Definition

 

 

Intercontinental ballistic missles

 

Term

 

 

Lyndon Johnson

Definition

 

Created the Great Society plan, it included the reduction of poverty and racial injustice. Known for causing more Vietnam conflict.

Term

 

 

John F. Kennedy 

Definition

 

 

Creator of the Peace Corps, New Frontier program and goals of space exploration.

Term

 

 

Peace Corps

Definition

 

An agency est. in 1961 to provide volunteer assistance to developing nations in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

Term

 

National Organization

for Women

(NOW)

Definition

 

An organization that pursues feminist goals, such as better child-care facilities, improved educational opportunities, and an end to job discrimination.

Term

 

 

Medicare

Definition

 

A program that provides hospital insurance and low-cost medical insurance to Americans aged 65 and over.

Term

 

Students for a

Democratic Society

(SDS)

Definition

 

 

an antiestablishment that called for greater individual freedom and responsibility.

Term

 

 

The Feminie Mystique

Definition

 

Book written by Betty Friedan that addressed the "problem that has no name" that a lot of women were facing.

Term

 

 

Neil Armstrong

Definition

 

First man to walk on the moon

(American).

Term

 

 

New Frontier

Definition

 

John Kennedy's plan that included medical care for the elderly, rebuilding of urban areas, aid education, improve national defense, increase international aid, and expand the space program.

Term

 

 

New Left

Definition

 

A youth-dominated political movement that created organizations like Students for a Democratic Society and the Free Speech Movement.

Term

 

 

Phyllis Schalfly

Definition

 

She disagreed with the Equal Rights Amendment in 1972. She felt the the ERA would lead to "a parade of horribles".

Term

 

 

Space Programs

Definition

 

This program grew once Neil Armstrong took the first steps on the moon. Many universities expanded their science programs.

Term

 

 

Robert Kennedy

Definition

 

President that had plans of men reaching the moon and all these other goals. He was assassinated before he got to see his plans come to life.

Term

 

 

Stonewall Riots

Definition

 

 A riot that came from a police raid on the Stonewall Inn,a popular hang-out for gays in Greenwich in 1969.

Term

 

 

Woodstock

Definition

 

A free music festival that attracted thousands of young people to a farm in upstate New York.

Term

 

Technological Change:

Science

Definition

 

Once our space system got men walking on the moon, schools all over expanded their science departments.

Term

 

 

Hydrogen bomb

Definition

 

a thermonuclear weapon much more powerful than he atomic bomb.

Term

 

 

26th Amendment

Definition

 

The right of citizens of the US who are 18 years old can vote.

Term

 

 

Agent Orange

Definition

 

A toxic leaf-killing chemical sprayed by US planes in Vietnam to expose Vietcong hideouts.

Term

 

 

Cambodia/Laos

Definition

 

 

While the US troops were heading home, Vietnam invaded their base.

Term

 

 

My Lai Incident

Definition

 

A village in northern South Vietnam where more than 200 unarmed civilians were killed by US troops.

Term

 

 

Kent State Massacre

Definition

 

Ohio university whe National Guardsmen opened fire on students protesting the Vietnam War, nine were wounded and four were killed.

Term

 

 

Napalm

Definition

 

A gasoline-based substance used in bombs that US planes dropped in Vietnam in order to burn away jungle and expose Vietcong hideouts.

Term

 

 

Pentagon Papers

Definition

 

A document that leaked to the press revealing that the US government had not been honest about its intentions in the Vietnam War.

Term

 

 

Tet offensive

Definition

 

 

A massive surprise attack by the Vietcong on South Viethnamese towns and cities.

Term

 

 

Vietcong

Definition

 

The South Vietnamese Communists fought against the government of South Vietnam in the Vietnam War.

Term

 

 

Vietnamization

Definition

 

Nixon's strategy for ending US involvement in the Vietnam War, involving withdrawl of US troops and their replacement with South Vietnamese forces.

Term

 

 

War Powers Act

1973

Definition

 

Law limiting a president's right to send troops into battle without consulting Congress.

Term

 

 

Ho Chi Minh

Definition

 

Established the Indochinese Communist Party. His goal was to gain independence for Vietnam.

Term

 

 

Golf of Tonkin

Resolution

Definition

 

Gives the president the power to send as many soldiers as he wants for however long he wants to repeal any armed attack against forces of the US.

Term

 

 

Operation Rolling Thunder

Definition

 

The first combat troops land in South Vietnam. 2 marine battalions land at Da Nang. Later increased to 18 battalions.

Term

 

 

Dien Bien Phu

Definition

 

Where the French were overran by Vietnam.

Term

 

General William

Westmoreland

Definition

 

Commander in South Vietnam. A West Point graduate who had served in World War II and Korea.

Term

 

 

Robert McNamara

Definition

 

Secretary of Defense, worked with Secretary of State and President Johnson to begin getting troops for the fight in Vietnam.

Term

 

 

Fall of Saigon

Definition

 

America provided economic aid but refused to send troops. North Vietnamese tanks rooled into Saigon and captured the city. Soon after, South Vietname surrendored to North Vietnam.

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