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"ideal" middle-class women
32 years old, pretty and popular, white, suburban housewife, mom of 4, married by 16
Moderate republicanism
34th president, commander of NATO
Peaceful coexistence
Adopted by Soviet, influence Socialist states that they could peacefully coexist with the capitalist block
NASA
Agency of US gov. That is responsible for the nations civilization space program
Sputnik 1957
Artificial satellite, Soviet union
Benjamin Spock the commonsense book of baby and childcare 1946
B: A pediatrician book: was it a manual on infant and child care
Viet Cong/national liberation front
By 1957 guerrilla forces known as the Viet Cong were launching attacks on the Diem government & in 1960 the resistance groups coalesced as the national liberation front
C Mills white-collar society 1956
C: sociologist book: describes the forming of a new class
"car culture"
Cars offered social status provided freedom and mobility and served as a marker of personal identity
David Riesman, The lonely crowd 1950
D: Socialist attorney and educator book: identifies and analyzes three mean culture types tradition- directed, inner- direcded , other directed
Versus the Board of Education of Topeka Kansas 1954
Declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black /white students, unconstitutional
Third world
Defined countries that remained non-aligned with either NATO or the communism bloc
Adlai E Stevenson
Democratic candidate
First Indochina war
Doing French and Viet Minh opponents
I like Ike
Eisenhower movement: persuaded him to run for president
Liberation strategy
Eisenhower said that it would not involve military force
Creeping socialism
Eisenhower warned about this
Korean Armsistice1953
Ended the Korean War
Civil rights act of 1960
Established federal inspection of local voter registration polls& introduced penalties for anyone who obstructed someone's attempt to register to vote
Eisenhower's farewell address to the nation
Final public speech, in a tv broadcast
Ngo Dinh Diem
First president of south Vietnam wanted to create Republic of Vietnam
Battle of Dien Bien Phuket 1954
French defeat, influenced negotiations over the future of Indochina Geneva
The beats
Group of American WWII writers, poets ,painters and musicians, rejected standers innovations in style experimentation with drugs and and interest in eastern religion
US economy by 1970
It soard to new heights
John Keats, the crack in the picture window 1956
J: English romantic book: about the hashing developments that were beginning the landscape and soles of American suburbs
John Kenneth Galbraith, The affluent society (1958)
J: american liberalism Book: surgut to clearly outline the manner in which post WWII US was becoming wealthy in a private sector, but poor in the public sector ,popularized the term "conventional wisdom"
J D Salinger, catcher the rye 1951
J:American private writer book: is depiction of bobsled alienation and loss of innocence in the protagonist and to been cauifield
Brinkmanship
The practice of pushing dangerous events to the brink of disaster in order to achieve the most advantageous outcome
"in God we trust"
US official motto, Eisenhower made the statement and made it mandatory to add it to all coins and currency and it was also added to the pledge
Balance of terror
Used in reference to the nuclear arms race between US and Soviet Union during the Cold War, describes peace between the 2 countries as a result of both gov being terrified at the prospect of a world destroying nuclear war
Ho Chi Minh
Vietnamese communist leader, pres., people's Army a Vietnam
William A Whyte Junior,the organization man 1956
W: journalist and people watcher book:about management
Montgomery bus boycott
Was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on public transit system of the Montgomery Alabama
William Levitt
american real estate developer, father of modern american suburbia; popularized planned communities
rock n roll
genre of popular music
"white flight"
large scale migration of whites and various european ancestries from racially mixed urban regions to more radically homogenous sunburn regions
the great black migration
movement of 6 million african americans out of S. US to urban NE midwest and W
"baby boom"
period of greatly increased birthrate
"suburbia"
residential area visiting as part of a city or urban area
"teen" subculture
youth based subculture with distinct styles, behaviors and interests
U2 spy planes
Planes that can fly high day and night
Civil rights act of 1957
Primarily a voting rights Bill showed Congers support for the Supreme Court decision
Fidel Castro
Prime Minister of Cuba, president
National Defense education act of 1958
Provided funding to the US education institution at all levels
Dwight D Eisenhower
Republican
Geneva accords 1954
Set of documents temporary separated Vietnam into two zones
Hungarian revolt 1956
Spontaneous revolt hungry vs Soviet
Massive retaliation
Military doctrie and nuclear strategy in which a State commits itself to retaliate in much greater force in the event of attack
televisions transformation of american culture
Most popular household product was a TV, grocery stores started selling TV dinners
norman Vincent Peale, the power of positive thinking (1952)
N: progenitor of "positive thinking"; author of book about winning confidence, bestseller and it was a how to course in personal happiness
The Federal highway construction act of 1956
Network of freeways that forms part of the national highway system of theirs
Missile gap
Or term used to describe to perceive superiority of the # and power of the USSRs missile in comparison with its own