27th-28th

Rosenbergs

Convicted of being atomic spies for the Soviet Union.

George Kennan

Architect of the Containment of Communism Policy.

Fidel Castro

Leader of the communist revolution in Cuba.

Guatemala

CIA organized the overthrow of a suspected communist government in this Latin American country in 1954.

NSC-68

National security council document that urged a massive increase in US defense spending.

Elvis

Greatest rock and roll singer of the 1950s.

the Beats

Group of young people who challenged the authority and culture of the 1950s.

interstate highways

Transportation project that increased travel and tourism.

The Other America

Book that exposed, in the midst of tremendous prosperity, the persistence of poverty in the US.

Critics of conformity in the 1950s

Any writer who criticized the conformity of the 1950s, such as Whyte, Riesman, Bellow, Salinger, Kerouac, Ginsberg.

Taft-Hartley Act

Law designed to limit the power of Labor Unions.

GI Bill

1944 law to provide money to veterans for college and housing.

Nixon

Established his anti-communist reputation by convicting Alger Hiss of perjury.

Federal Employee Loyalty Program

Truman’s program to find and fire communists in the US government.

Fair Deal

Truman’s term for the expansion of the New Deal programs.

Martin Luther King

Leader of the Montgomery Bus boycott, and by the late 1950s, the entire civil rights movement.

Brown v. Board of Education

Court case that demanded an end to segregated schools; widely ignored in the South.

Little Rock

Most public challenge to integrated schools took place here in 1957.

integration

Truman’s lasting legacy in Civil Rights.

northern voters

According to your text, these groups of Blacks were key to the civil rights movement.

Lend-Lease

Program to provide weapons to Britain and the Soviet Union without cost.

WPB or OPA

Organization that guided the wartime economy in the US.

America First

Group working to keep the US out of war in 1939-1941.

A. Philip Randolph

Black leader who pushed Roosevelt on Civil Rights.

Gerald Nye

ND Senator who supported the isolationist policy of the 1930s.

Marshall Plan

US program to provide money to rebuild Europe after World War II.

NATO

Alliance between US and Western Europe.

Berlin

German city that was the focus of Cold War tensions.

Poland

Boundaries and government of this nation were the main point of disagreement at Yalta and Tehran, US gave in to Soviet demands at Potsdam.

Greece and Turkey

1st test of containment.

Mao

Leader of the Chinese communist party, triumphant in the Civil War in 1949.

Israel

Creation of this new nation in 1948 complicated US foreign policy, creating reasons for war.

Douglas MacArthur

US commander in Korea, fired for insubordination.

Ho Chi Minh

Leader of Vietnamese communists—drove the French out at the battle of Dien Bien Phu.

Gamal Abdel Nasser

Egyptian Leader, who created a crisis in 1956 by taking control of the Suez Canal.

Joe McCarthy

Leading anti-communist crusader of the 1950s.

Massive Retaliation

US policy designed to save money and avoid conflicts like Korea in the future.

heads of corporations

Most common occupation of Eisenhower’s cabinet members before entering government service.

Social Security

Eisenhower expanded this program despite opposing the expansion of the New Deal.

The US Army

McCarthy was exposed as a demagogue when he accused this group of being full of communists.

the West

This part of the country grew most rapidly in the 1950s and 1960s.

TV

The most important new medium of entertainment of the 1950s.

suburbs

Population in the US grew most rapidly in the 1950s in these cities around larger cities.

Computers

Developments in transistors and other electronics at Bell Labs were critical to advancing this important technology.

polio

Jonas Salk and Alfred Sabin developed a vaccine to prevent this paralyzing disease.

14 points

Wilson’s plan for peace at the end of World War I, largely rejected.

Scopes Trial

TN event, that showed the 1920s division between modernists and fundamentalists.

NRA

Centerpiece of the First New Deal, largely a failure and killed by the US Supreme Court.

Fr. Charles Coughlin

Radio preacher and demagogue who criticized Roosevelt’s New Deal for not nationalizing the Banks.

J.M. Keynes

British economist, upon whose ideas much New Deal thinking was based.