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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