Chapter 28 Flashcards
- Baby Boom
a temporary marked increase in the birth rate,following World War II. 1946-1964
2.Keynesian Economics
a theory of total spending in the economy would bring the country out of the depression
- AFL-CIO
the merging of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organization
- Teamsters Union
represents truck drivers and is the largest private sector labor union in the U.S.
- Antibacterial Drugs/Penicillian
created by Alexander Flemming who discovered pencillian by accident
- Jonas Salk
creator of the Polio Vaccine which was a disease that had killed thousands and crippled thousands
7.UNIVAC
Universal Automatic Computer created in 1946 and completed in 1948
- Hydrogen Bomb
weapon deriving a large portion of its energy from the nuclear fusion of hydrogen isotopes
- ICBM
Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles have greater range and speed than other missles
- Sputnik
a Russian satellite that was the first object in space launched on October 4, 1957
- NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, responsible for Space and Air devices
- Disneyland
the first amusement park to connect movie and television characters with rides
- Federal Highway Act of 1956
the process of putting in stronger and more sustainable highways for the purpose of people receiving jobs
14.Levittown
a town in New York that was the first to vary the outsides of the home but have basically the same layouts
- Feminism
advocacy of women’s social, economic, and political rights as being equal as men’s
- Environmentalism
ideology regarding concerns for environmental protection
- The Organization Man
by William H. Whyte, the open mind of demands that people work and belong to organizations
- J. D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye
1951, controversial because of the ideas of teenage angst and alienation shared
- Beat Generation
Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Gregory Corso questioning mainstream politics and culture
- James Dean, Rebel without a cause
a movie that was inspirational to the rebels of the 1950’s
- Rock ‘n’ roll
A type of music characterized by a heavy beat and being a mixture of jazz and blues
- The Other America
Michael Harrington that was an influential study of poverty in the U.S. published in 1962
- Brown v. Board of Education
Supreme Court case in which the state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional
- Little Rock NIne
the nine black students in the Central High School who were walked to school by the National Guard
- Montgomery Bus Boycott
a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system
- Martin Luther King Jr.
a preachers son who advocated for equal rights did so peacefully
- Jackie Robinson
the first Black Major League Baseball player played for the Dodgers
- Army-McCarthy Hearings
investigations between April 1954 and June 1954 to accuse members of the army of being communists
- John Foster Dulles
U.S. Secretary of State under Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959 advocated an aggressive stance against communism throughout the world
- Massive Retaliation/Brinkmanship
the possible deterrence of an all out nuclear attack from the Soviet Union
- Dien Bien Phu
the fortress in Vietnam French forces were trapped and surrendered in 1954
- Muhammad Mossadegh
a premier of Iran,wished to nationalize the oil in Iran, replaced with help from the CIA
- Suez Canal Incident 1956
an Israeli and Egytian conflict between the control of the Suez canal which carried oil to the U.S.
- Fidel Castro
a communistic leader in Cuba who overthrow Edwin Bastista
- Military Industrial Complex
comprises the policy and monetary relations which existed between legislators and the arms indusrty
