American History CH. 29

In the presidential campaign of 1952, Dwight Eisenhower promised to do what?

Destroy Communism

List the accomplishments of President Dwight D. Eisenhower

Interstate Highway System, Department of Health, Education and Welfare.

The Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision ruled against what practice?

Segregation

Which of the following countries had recently fallen to communism (1949) and was a main issue in the election of 1952?

China

How did Senator Joseph McCarthy rise to national prominence?

Shared a speech that had a list of communist party members.

What was the result of the Summit Meeting in Geneva in the summer of 1955?

Communication with leaders. 1st step to calming war.

What were Eisenhower’s farm policies designed to do?

Price supports, Soil Bank Program, Rural Development Program

Who did President Eisenhower appoint at Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in 1953?

Earl Warren

How was the Indochina War (Vietnam) resolved in 1954?

Split Vietnam into two.

In 1958, President Eisenhower sent American troops to what Middle Eastern country?

Israel

What did Martin Luther King, Jr., advocate as a way to protest segregation of public transportation?

Boycott - peacefully

How did the US aid France in Vietnam against communist aggression?

Sent troops and provided food and medical service

Who was the communist leader of Vietnam who fought the Japanese in WWII, the French in the 1950’s and eventually American forces in the 1960’s and 70’s?

Ho Chi Minh

The Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960 aimed at helping black people do what?

End segregation and help fight against racism

Which occupations did Ike hold before being elected President in 1952?

President of Colombia University, Supreme Commander of NATO

What happened on May 1st, 1960? What was the result?

One of our spy planes was shot down over Russia. Summit meeting never happened.

What was America’s basic farm problem in the early 1950’s?

Overproduction

What was the role of the United States in the Hungarian revolt of 1956?

We stayed out and did nothing.

How was the Suez Crisis in 1956 finally settled?

We took it before/to the United Nations

What was considered Eisenhower’s greatest asset as presidential candidate in 1952?

Nixon - ability to be old + young appeal

TRUE OR FALSE

While Congress paid little attention to Truman’s demands for civil rights legislation, it did pass (in 1957) the first civil rights law since Reconstruction.

TRUE

The armistice signed ending the war in Korea in 1953 kept the demilitarized zone (DMZ) at the _____th parallel.

38

What did President Eisenhower do to aid school integration in Little Rock, Ark. in 1957?

Took the central guard away and ordered the Airborne Division into Little Rock.

What were the results of 1952 and 1956 elections?

Ike won.

What was the result of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka?

Segregation was unconstitutional

Adlai Stevenson

Versed Ike 2x - lost both

“Domino Theory”

If we knock 1 communist country down, they’ll all fall

Batista

WAS the President of Cuba

“Brinkmanship”

US and Russia got close to talk of tense relationships

“Eisenhower Doctrine”

US helps the Middle East against communism

Explorer I

US’ first satellite to enter space

Ezra Benson

replaced rigid supports for the farm economy

Fidel Castro

Communist dictator of Cuba (after Batista)

Gamal Nasser

President of Egypt (Suez Crisis)

“I like Ike”

Slogan to promote Ike

John Foster Dulles

US Secretary under Ike

“Kitchen Debate”

Capitalism v. Communism (Nixon v. Khrushchev)

Little Rock

Segregation of the schools in regard to racism

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Most well known Civil Rights Activists. Peaceful boycotter.

“Massive Retaliation”

If we or Russia do ANYTHING, the other gets nuked.

National Defense Education Act

The push of math and science onto students

Nikita Khrushchev

Took over after Stalin

“Operation Paperclip”

US Captures German rocket engineers

SEATO

Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (US< France, Britain, New Zealand, Australia)

Sputnik I

World’s First Satellite (Russian)

Richard Nixon

Ike’s Vice President

Rosa Parks

Didn’t give her seat to a white man, thrown in jail…inspired Dr. King

Wernher Von Braun

Lead German Engineer/Scientist

14th Amendment

Equal Rights