Pt.2 Flashcards
Built new communities in the suburbs after WWII, using mass-production techniques
William J. Levitt
Too white, too conformist, used for whites to isolate themselves from minorities
Criticisms of Suburbs
College students in the 1950s
“Silent Generation”
1954 - The Supreme Court overruled Plessy v. Ferguson, declared that racially segregated facilities are inherently unequal and ordered all public schools desegregated.
Brown v Board of education
United States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery (Alabama) and so triggered the national civil rights movement
Rosa Parks
Buying on credit, baby boom, suburb living, TV culture - polite white happy, beatniks - group of rebellious writers and intellectuals, racism, sexism, cars, fast food
1950’s culture
Source of rebellion for teens
Rock n roll
A policy, developed during the Kennedy administration, make conventional army bigger to fight brush fire wars, create special forces for guerrilla warfare and counter insurgency, build up nuclear weapons
Flexible response
An unsuccessful invasion of Cuba in 1961, which was sponsored by the United States. Its purpose was to overthrow Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
Bay of Pigs
October 1962 confrontation between US and the Soviet Union over Soviet missiles in Cuba. Between Kennedy and Khrushchev, Cuba took missiles out of Cuba, U.S. took them out of Greece
Cuban missile crisis
Kennedy’s plan, supports civil rights, pushes for a space program, wants to cut taxes, and increase spending for defense and military
New frontier
First American to orbit the earth
John Glenn
