Untitled Flashcards Set

Who will Republicans enthusiastically nominate on the first ballot for their presidential candidate in 1952?

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Who will be nominated by the Republicans as the Vice-President in 1952?

Richard Nixon

What will be the slogan for the Republicans in the 1952 Presidential election?

“I Like Ike”

With the Republicans taking control of Congress in 1952 what amendment will be passed to prevent another FDR term?

22nd Amendment (1951)

What armistice will be signed in early 1953?

Korean. They are still at war.

What was the consequence of this armistice?

Korea was still divided along the 38th parallel. Americans could not find solace that communism had been “contained”. Korea still has great tensions between North and South.

What famous speech did this freshman Senator make in February of 1950 about the State Department?

He will accuse Secretary of State Dean Acheson of knowingly employing 205 communists—2nd Red Scare.

What was HUAC? What was their job? What future POTUS served on HUAC while a representative from CA?

House on Un-American Activities; It was a House committee to investigate “subversion”. Caught Alger Hiss; Richard Nixon.

These laws were a set of antiquated rules that governed all aspects of black life in the South?

Jim Crow laws

Who will be the first Black American to integrate Major League Baseball in 1947? What team did he play for?

Jackie Robinson; Brooklyn Dodgers

In 1944 the Supreme Court ruled this type of primary unconstitutional in the South?

White primary

This Supreme Court in 1950 will rule that separate professional schools for blacks failed to meet the test of equality established in Plessy v. Ferguson.

Sweatt v. Painter

In which SCOTUS decision 1954 will the Supreme Court rule segregations in the public schools 'inherently unequal' and thus unconstitutional?

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

What event is seen as the spark of the modern day Civil Rights Movement?

In December of 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat.

This event will lead to what boycott? Who will lead this boycott? How long did it last?

Montgomery bus boycott; Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; Almost a year

What SCOTUS cases did the Brown decision overturn?

Plessy v. Ferguson

How did many Southern states get around the Brown decision?

They created many “private” schools

Which president was responsible for desegregating the US Armed Forces? In what year were they desegregated?

Harry Truman; 1948

Who were the “Little Rock Nine”? Who was the Governor of Arkansas who prohibited the integration of Central High School?

They were the nine Black students who tried to enter Little Rock’s Central High School; Governor Orval Faubus.

What type of protest took place on February 1, 1960 in Greensboro, North Carolina?

“Sit-in” by 4 Black men at a Woolworth’s “whites-only” lunch counter.

In April 1960 SNCC was formed. What did SNCC stand for?

Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee

How was SNCC different from the SCLC and the NAACP?

SNCC consisted of young people who didn’t want to wait for the legal system or non-violent system to work. They would later join the Black Power movement.

This future farm Unionizer would also stand against illegal immigration to the United States by Mexican workers because they would undercut the farm unions wages.

Cesar Chavez

This Act was similar to the German autobahn system?

Interstate Highway Act of 1956

Why were the overpasses on Interstate highways designed at no lower than 15’?

To allow flatbed trucks to carry nuclear weapons from site to site.

What policy is Secretary of State John Foster Dulles responsible for creating in relation to the ability of the US and USSR to completely destroy each other many times over with nuclear weapons?

MAD—Mutually Assured Destruction

This policy created by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said that the US should bring a nation to the brink of war, but never try and start a full out nuclear war.

Brinkmanship

This leader of French Indochina pleaded with Woodrow Wilson and Harry Truman for independence of their French rulers, but both times was denied.

Ho Chi Minh

Who was the leader of South Vietnam which Eisenhower and Kennedy would support?

Ngo Dinh Diem

What Eastern European group was formed in reaction to West Germany joining NATO?

Warsaw Pact—made up of the Soviet puppet states.

Which Soviet premier announced in 1953 that Joseph Stalin was a bloody dictator and removed Stalin’s body from Lenin’s tomb?

Nikita Khrushchev—also renamed many cities including Stalingrad.

What Middle Eastern intervention by the US will leave a bitter legacy of resentment among many Iranians which will come back to bite us in the late 1970s and even today?

CIA engineered a coup in 1953 to install a youthful shah of Iran, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi.

What was the Suez Crisis over?

President Nasser of Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal placing Western Europe’s oil supply in jeopardy.

What was different about the US and its oil supply in 1940 and 1948?

In 1940 the US was an exporter of oil, by 1948 the US had become a net oil importer from the Middle East.

What does OPEC stand for and what nations joined by 1960?

Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries; Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Iran, Venezuela.

What was meant by the Eisenhower Doctrine?

The US would pledge military and economic aid to Middle Eastern nations threatened by communist aggression.

What will cause the US to spend more money on Science and Mathematics courses post 1957?

Launching of Sputnik I.

What space program will get its start during Eisenhower’s administration?

NASA—National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

What was the name of the first man in space?

Yuri Gagarin.

What was the name of the first US man in space?

John Glenn.

It will be after this dictator takes over Cuba in 1959 that relations between the US and Soviet Union will grow even more distant.

Fidel Castro.

Who did the Republicans and Democrats nominate as their parties candidates for the Presidency in 1960?

R – Nixon; D – John F. Kennedy.

When Kennedy finally won the Presidency in 1960. What was the name of his new plan for the US?

New Frontier.

What was the fear of Kennedy when he became President?

That he would be more allegiant to the Pope than the Constitution.

These two states attained became the last to be granted statehood in 1959?

Alaska and Hawaii.

In the 1950s how did television create a “cult of domesticity”?

By showing the idyllic suburban family with a working husband, two children and a wife who did not work outside the home.

What feminist gave focus and fuel to women’s feelings in 1963 when she published The Feminine Mystique which launched the modern women’s movement?

Betty Friedan; That women should be paid equally and should be able to be Rosie the River and come home and be mom. Very difficult!!!

Where did Rock and Roll get its roots?

From African American Jazz and Bebop.

Who will become the King of Rock and Roll?

Elvis Presley.

What book by Joseph Heller dealt with the improbable antics and anguish of American airmen in the wartime Mediterranean?

Catch-22.

What Arthur Miller play in 1953 will treat the Salem witch trials as a dark parable warning against the dangers of McCarthyism?

The Crucible.

Place the following in Chronological Order: Hemingway publishes, Castro leads Cuban revolution, The Old Man and the Sea, Berlin Crisis, Brown v. Board of Education, Sputnik launched, SCLC formed, U-2 incident, Kennedy defeats Nixon.

Hemingway, Brown, SCLC formed, Sputnik, Berlin Crisis, U-2 incident, Castro, Kennedy President.