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22 Cards in this Set
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The Feminie Mystique |
1963 best selling book by feminist thinker Betty Friedan. This work challenged women to move beyond the drudgery o's suburban housewifery and helped launch what would become second wave feminism.bl |
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Rock & Roll |
"Crossover" musical style that rose to dominance in the 1950's , merging black rhythm and blues with white bluegrass and country. Became a defining feature of the 1950's youth culture. |
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Checkers Speech |
1952 nationally televised Jace bath vice president candidate Richard Nixon. Using the new mass medium of television shortly before the 1952 election the vice presidential candidate saved his place on the ticket by defending himself against a causing accusation of corruptions. |
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McCarthyism |
A brand of vitriolic, fear mongering anti communism associating with the Career of senator Joseph McCarthy . In the early 19 Fifties senator McCarthy used his position in Congress to baselessly accuse high-ranking government officials and other Americans of conspiracy with communism |
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Army McCarthy Hearings |
1954 congressional hearings called by senator Joseph McCarthy to accuse members of the army of communist ties |
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Jim Crow |
System of racial segregation in the American south from the end of reconstruction until the mid twentieth century . Based on the concept separate but equal facilities for black and whites |
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Montgomery Bus Boycott |
Protest sparked by rosa parks defiant refusal to move to the back of the bus , by black Alabamians against segregated seating on city buses (1955) |
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Brown vs Board of education of Topeka , Kansas |
(1954) landmark Supreme Court decision they overtime Palissey versus Ferguson and 1896 and abolished racial segregation in public schools the court reason that separate was inherently unequal |
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Student nonviolent coordinating committee |
Youth organization founded by southern black students in 1960 to promote civil rights . Drawing on its members youthful energies . |
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Operation Wetback |
(1954) a government program to round up and deport as many as one million illegal Mexican migrant workers in the United States . |
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Federal highway act of 1956 |
Federal legislation signed by Dwight Eisenhower to construct thousand of miles of modern highways in the came of national defense |
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Policy of boldness |
Foreign-policy objective of Dwight Eisenhower Secretary of State John foster Dulles , who believed in changing the containment of strategy to one that more directly engaged the Soviet Union and attempted to roll back communist influence around the world . |
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Hungarian Uprising |
(1956) series of demonstrations in Hungary against the Soviet Union |
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Dien Bieh Phu , battle of (1854) |
Military engagement in French colonial Vietnam in which French forces were defeated by viet Minh nationalists loyal to Ho Chi Minh. With this loss , the French ended their colonial involvement in Indochina , paving the way for Americans entry |
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Suez Crisis |
(1956) international crisis launched when Egyptian president Gamal Absel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal , which had been owned mostly by the French and British stockholders. |
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Organization Of Petroleum Exporting Countries |
Cartel comprising middle eastern states and Venezuela first organized in 1960. OPEC aimed to control access to and prices of oil . |
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Sputnik |
(1957) soviet satellite first launched into earth orbit on October 4, 1957 . Marked the first time human beings had put a man made object into orbit |
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Kitchen Debate |
(1959) televised exchange in 1959 between soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev and American Vice President Richard Nixon |
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Abstract Expressionism |
An experimental style of mid twentieth century modern art exemplified by Jackson Pollocks spontaneous action paintings created by flinging paint on canvas stretched across the studio floor |
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International Style |
Archetypal , post world war 2 modernist architectural style , best known for its curtain wall designs of steel and glass corporate high rises |
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Beat Generation |
A small coterie of mid twentieth century bohemian writers and personalities , including Jack Kerouac , Allen Ginsberg , and William Burroughs , who bemoaned bourgeois conformity and advocated free form experimentation in life and literature . |
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Southern Renaissance |
A literary outpouring among mid twentieth century southern writers , begun by William Faulkner and marked by a new critical appreciation of the regions burdens of history , racism , and conservatism |
