The American Dream: 1950s America

Flashcards covering key concepts from the lecture on 1950s America, focusing on Eisenhower's policies, societal changes, and pivotal events in civil rights.

Eisenhower's New Look Policy

A foreign policy strategy that emphasized nuclear weapons while limiting conventional military forces.

Military-Industrial Complex

The relationship between the government and the defense industry that benefits from increased military spending.

Suburbanization

The rapid growth of residential areas outside city centers, particularly in the post-World War II era.

Levittown

A name synonymous with suburban tract housing, developed by William Levitt, featuring mass-produced homes.

Brown v. Board of Education

The 1954 Supreme Court ruling that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional.

Little Rock Nine

A group of nine African American students who enrolled at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957.

Rock and Roll

A genre of popular music that emerged in the late 1940s and became associated with youth rebellion in the 1950s.

The Organization Man

A critique by William H. Whyte of the conformity and lack of individuality in corporate culture of the 1950s.

Montgomery Bus Boycott

A year-long protest against racial segregation on public buses initiated by Rosa Parks' arrest in 1955.

Sputnik

The first manmade satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, which heightened fears in the United States about Soviet technological superiority.