The Eisenhower Era

Creates first computer.

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The 1950s was about conformatism and the wonderful new television made its way into most homes. Elvis and his new style of music, called rock and roll, was also introduced during the 1950.

Refers to women in clerical work industries.

First credit card.

First appears in 1955

United States rock singer whose many hit records and flamboyant style greatly influenced American popular music (1935-1977).

A term used to describe ministers like Billy Graham, who would spread their messages via television networks.

First drive through fast food restaurant - began in 1948.

music that grew out of rhythm and blues and that became popular in the 1950s.

Female icon of the 1950s and 60s, she could sing, dance, act, and was the most infamous Playboy Bunny.

1952-1960 The US president who followed Truman. After election he immediately signed an armistice and ended the Korean War. He was the army general who led D-Day.

Murdered in 1955 for whistling at a white woman by her husband and his friends. They kidnapped him and brutally killed him. his death led to the American Civil Rights movement.

The first African American player in the major league of baseball. His actions helped to bring about other opportunities for African Americans.

American civil rights lawyer, first black justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. Marshall was a tireless advocate for the rights of minorities and the poor.

December 1955,This woman refused to give up her seat to a white person on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Her arrest sparked a yearlong black boycott of the city busses and served notice throughout the South that blacks would no longer submit meekly to the absurdities and indignities of segregation.

Protest in 1955-1956 by African Americans against racial segregation in bus system of Montgomery, Alabama.

An Atlanta-born Baptist minister, he earned a Ph.D. at Boston University. The leader of the Civil Rights Movement and President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, he was assassinated outside his hotel room.

Found "seperate but equal" (Plessy v Ferguson) illegal.

A term refering to the South's unwillingness to intergrate. Only 2% actually intergrate in the Deep South.

Nine african american students who first integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957.

Set up a permanent Civil Rights Commission to investigate violations of civil rights and authorized federal injunctions to protect voting rights.

Southern Christian Leadership Conference, founded by MLK, which taught that civil rights could be achieved through nonviolent protests.

Student-created & led civil right organization that worked for desegregation through sit-ins, freedom rides, & civil disobedience.

an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives. In 1969, the House changed the committee's name to "House Committee on Internal Security".When the House abolished the committee in 1975, its functions were transferred to the House Judiciary Committee.

The act of pushing a situation to the verge of war in order to threaten and encourage one's opponent to back down.

Give $500 million to the area, but many Latin Americans felt the aid was to little to late.

Authorized $887 million in loans to needy college students and in grants for the improvement of teaching sciences and languages so we could keep up with Russia's technology.

Presidents are limited to a maximum of two elected terms, and only one if they succeeded an elected President and served for more than two years of that elected President's term. (This Amendment was a reaction to FDR's four elected terms, which broke the age-old tradition set by George Washington. George Washington set a two-term precedent, but it was only a tradition until this Amendment mad it the law of the land.) (1951).

1959 - Act that protects the rights of union members from corrupt or discriminatory labor unions; also known as Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA).

Between US & USSR.Soviet satellite first launched into Earth orbit on October 4, 1957, this scientific achievement marked the first time human beings had put a man-made object into orbit and pushed the USSR noticeably ahead of the United States in the Space Race

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Eisenhower was one of the first presidents to tackle the issue of integration in the United States.

A former State Department official who was accused of being a Communist spy and was convicted of perjury. The case was prosecuted by Richard Nixon.

vetoed by Truman, authorized the president to arrest and detain suspicious people during an "internal security emergency.

convicted in 1951 of giving atomic bomb data found by American scientists to the Soviet Union; only Americans ever executed during peacetime for espionage

United States politician who unscrupulously accused many citizens of being Communists. Lead the nation wide search for communist in America.

The use of lies and slander to attack and discredit the Democratic party.

Divided by the 38th parallel

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Attempted to get Woodrow Wilson to help the Vietnamese

In March 1954, the French became trapped and the US did not intervene.

Vietnam was split between a communist north and a pro-Western south. Dienbienphu marks the start of American involvement in Vietnam. We send troops to help France.

In 1953, to protect oil supplies in the Middle East, the CIA engineered a coup in Iran that installe dthe youthful shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, as the ruler of Iran.

After the US would not help President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt get needed money to build a dam in the upper Nile, the dam was nationalized. France and Britian invaded and controlled Egypt fo a while.

Formed in 1960 by Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Iran and Venezuela to controloil prices in the West. (Organziation of Petroleum Exporting Countries)

The incident when an American U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union. The U.S. denied the true purpose of the plane at first, but was forced to when the U.S.S.R. produced the living pilot and the largely intact plane to validate their claim of being spied on aerially. The incident worsened East-West relations during the Cold War and was a great embarrassment for the United States.

Cuba becomes communist. In 1959, Castro overthrows US supported Batista. And in 1961, America broke diplomatic relations with Cuba.

Eisenhower's Sec. of State; harsh anti-Communist; called for more radical measures to roll back communism where it had already spread (containment too cautious).

1954 - Proposed by secretary of state John Foster Dulle , An airfleet of bombers armed with nuclear bombs. This would allow President Eisenhower to threaten countries such as the Soviet Union and China with nuclear weapons.

Massive retaliation, also known as a massive response or massive deterrence, is a military doctrine and nuclear strategy in which a state commits itself to retaliate in much greater force in the event of an attack.