APUSH Chapter 35 american zenith
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computer manufacturing company that became the emblem of managerial capitalism and technological innovation. helped catalyze the transition to a computerized world.
best selling book by Betty Friedan - this challenged women to move beyond housewifery and launched a second-wave of feminism.
a crossover music style merging black rythms and white bluegrass/country. popularized by Elvis Presley. this became a defining feature of the 1950s youth culture, although older generations generally disliked this style.
televised address by VP candidate Richard Nixon, defending himself against allegations of corruption. he saved himself by saying the only thing he got with the money was his pet dog named checkers.
after rosa parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on the bus, and was arrested, black Alabamians boycotted busses for 1 year (led by MLK) until a Supreme Court ruling banned segregated bussing.
abolished racial segregation in public schools. overturned prev ruling in plessy v. ferguson
youth org. founded by southern black students to promote civil rights.
govt. program to round up and deport as many as 1 million illegal Mexican migrant workers. promoted in part by the Mexican govt. and reflected growing concerns about non-europeans immigration to america.
signed by Eisenhower to construct thousands of miles of modern highways in the name of national defense.
officially called national interstate and defense highways act.
dramatically increased the move ro the suburbs & made it easier for white middle class to commute to urban jobs.
foreign policy object of Eisenhower’s sec of state JOHN FOSTER DULLES
John foster Dulles believed in changing the containment strategy to one that directly engaged the Soviet Union and attempted to roll back communist influence around the world.
this led to a buildup of nuclear arsenal to threaten massive retaliation against communist enemies, launching the ARMS RACE.
series of demonstrations in Hungary against Soviet Union. Nikita Khrushchev violently surpassed this pro-western uprising and this showed the limitations of America’s power in Eastern Europe
battle of Dien Bien Phu,
military engagement in French colonial Vietnam, where French force were defeated by Viet Minh nationalists loyal to Ho Chi Minh. since France lost, their colonial involvement in Indochina ended, paving the way for america.
international crisis that happened when eygptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal, previously owned by French & British stockholders.
led to a British & French attack on egym, which failed without America’s help
marked an imp turning point in the post colonial Middle East & highlighted the rising imp. of oil in world affairs.
cartel comprising of middle eastern states and Venezuela. aimed to control chess to and prices of oil, wresting power from western oil companies and investors. this gradually strengthened the hand of non-western powers on the world stage.
soviet satellite launched into orbit in 1957. first time human beings had put a man made object into orbit and pushed the USSR ahead of us in the space race. a month after, they sent sputnik 2, which led america to redouble its space exploration efforts.
exchange between Nikita Khrushchev and VP Richard Nixon. they met at the american national exhibition in masco and argued over the relative merits of capitalist consumer culture vs Soviet state planning. Nixon got applause for his defense of america capitalism, helping him get the republican nomination in 1960.
mentioned by Eisenhower in his farewell address, referring tot he political and economic ties between arms manufacturers, elected officials, and the u.s. armed forces that created self-sustaining pressure for high military spending. also warned that this powerful combination left unchecked could endanger our liberties or democratic process, favoring defense concerns over more peaceful goals that balanced security & liberty.
style of modern art exemplified by Jackson pollock’s spontaneous action paintings made by flinging paint on canvases stretched across the studio floor.
post ww2 modernist architectural style, known for its curtain wall designs of steel and glass corporate high rises.
bohemian writers & personalities including jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William s. Burroughs etc who were against middle class conformity and advocated for free-form experimentation in life and literature. l
literary outpouring among southern writers sparked by William Faulkner and marked a new critical appreciation of the region’s burdens of history, racism, and conservatism.
president Kennedy’s nickname for his domestic policy agenda., he program included proposals for the peace corps and efforts to improve education & health care.
agency created by Kennedy to promote voluntary service by Americans in foreign countries. provides labor power to help developing countries improve their infrastructure, health care, educational systems, etc. represented an effort by post war liberals to promote american values and influence through productive exchanges across the world.
program of manned space flights run by NASA. the projects highest achievement was landing of Apollo 11 on the moon in 1969.
fortified and guarded barrier between east and West Berlin made ordered by Nikita Khrushchev in 1961 to stop people going to the west. until its destruction in 1989, it was a symbol of the divide between the communist and capitalist worlds.
free trade zone in Western Europe created by the treaty of Rome 1957. often referred to as the common market - included France west Germany Italy Belgium Netherlands and Luxembourg, but expanded to become the European Union
CIA plot in 1961 to overthrow fidel Castro by training cuban exiles to invade and supporting them w/ american AirPower. this FAILEd and became a public relations disaster early in Kennedy’s presidency.
standoff between Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev over soviet’s plans to instal nuclear weapons in Cuba. alto it was later settled in America’s favor, it brought the world’s super powers close to the brink of nuclear confrontation.
mixed race groups who rode interstate buses deep into the south to draw attention to and protest racial segregation. proved a political and public relations success for the civil rights movement.
efforts by SNCC and other civ il rights groups to register the south’s historyically disenfranchised black population. typified a common strategy of the civil rights movement - sought to counter racial discrimination by empowering people at grassroots levels to excerisise their civic rights through voting.
civil rights demonstration in 1963 in support of Kennedy backed legislation to secure legal protections for american blacks. this march was the occasion of Martin Luther king’s famous “I have a dream” speech.
37th president
known as communist hunger
VP under eisenhower
defended american capitalism in the kitchen debate with ckrushchev
resigned presidency amid the Watergate scandal 1974
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