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| The strategy of threatening to use nuclear weapons in order to stop communist aggression. |
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| The Eisenhower administration's policy of being willing to go to the very brink of war to oppose communist expansion. |
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| (1957) The world's first artificial satellite; launched by the Soviet Union. |
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| National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) |
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| Agency established by Congress in 1958 to conduct space research. |
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| An organization established by the federal government in 1947 to conduct covert operations. |
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| International crisis that began in 1956 when Britain, France, and Israel invaded the Suez Canal region in Egypt. |
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| (1957) President Dwight D. Eisenhower's promise of U.S. aid to any Middle Eastern nation fighting communist aggression. |
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| (1960) Event in which the Soviets shot down a U.S. spy plane over the Soviet Union. |
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| The use of machines in production. |
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| A significant increase in the number of children being born. |
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| Program launched by the federal government to improve life in U.S. cities through better public services and new housing projects. |
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| States in the South and Southwest that attracted many new people and businesses in the 1950s because of low tax rates, a warm climate, and jobs. |
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| (1956) An act that provided money to create a national interstate highway system. |
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| (1956) An act that provided money to create a national interstate highway system. |
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| Early example of a preplanned and mass-produced housing development; created by William Levitt on Long Island in New York. |
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| Young writers who criticized American life in the 1950s; also called beatniks. |
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| Young writers who criticized American life in the 1950s; also called beatniks. |
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| Musical style developed in the 1950s that drew heavily from African American rhythm and blues and used new instruments such as electric guitars. |
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| Musical style developed in the 1950s that drew heavily from African American rhythm and blues and used new instruments such as electric guitars. |
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| Name given to teenagers and college students in the 1950s because many of them seemed to conform to social expectations without protest. |
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| Committee on Civil Rights |
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| (1946) Committee appointed by President Harry S Truman to investigate racial discrimination and to suggest federal solutions to the problem. |
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| Committee on Civil Rights |
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| (1946) Committee appointed by President Harry S Truman to investigate racial discrimination and to suggest federal solutions to the problem. |
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| Brown v. Board of Education |
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| (1954) Supreme Court ruling that declared that segregation in public schools is illegal; overturned the separate-but-equal doctrine established in 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson. |
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| Brown v. Board of Education |
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| (1954) Supreme Court ruling that declared that segregation in public schools is illegal; overturned the separate-but-equal doctrine established in 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson. |
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| African American students who first integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957. |
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| (1955–56) African American boycott of the city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, which led to the changing of discriminatory bus rules. |
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| Montgomery Improvement Association |
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| Organization formed by African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1956 to strengthen the bus boycott. |
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| Southern Christian Leadership Conference |
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| Group founded by Martin Luther King Jr. and other ministers that helped lead the struggle for civil rights. |
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| Southern Christian Leadership Conference |
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| Group founded by Martin Luther King Jr. and other ministers that helped lead the struggle for civil rights. |
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| was elected president, the U.S. military tested the first hydrogen bomb. The United States had begun developing this nuclear weapon in January 1950 |
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| created a "New Look" for U.S. foreign policy. Instead of just containing communism, Eisenhower wanted the United States to actually "roll back" communism from certain areas. |
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| In 1953_______ the place of Soviet premier Joseph Stalin after his death |
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| In 1952 _________ developed a vaccine that would help stop polio around the world. |
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| created Levittown on Long Island, New York. Levittown was an early example of a preplanned and mass-produced housing development |
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| TV star of the 1950s. In her weekly series ________ and her husband found themselves in unusual situations |
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| In his 1952 novel Invisible Man_________, explores a young African American man's search for identity in the postwar world |
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| wrote about racism in his collection of essays Notes of a Native Son. _______ viewed his work as an act of patriotism. |
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| ______ inspired some people to reject traditional society and choose their own paths with his book On the Road. |
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| For example, painter ___________ developed a bold new method called action painting. Critics of such experimental writing and art said that the new styles did not contain any real meaning |
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| The biggest rock star of the 1950s was __________. He was influenced by the blues and by country-and-western music. |
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| In the 1950s the NAACP worked on ending segregation in public schools. _____________, the NAACP attorney in the Sweatt case, led the courtroom battles |
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| On December 1, 1955, African American seamstress _________ refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. She was quickly arrested for breaking the law. |
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| minister Martin Luther King Jr. |
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| Leaders formed the Montgomery Improvement Association to strengthen the boycott. They chose 26-year-old Baptist minister ________ to lead the association. ____ had a reputation as an inspiring speaker who could motivate listeners |
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