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The feminine mystique |
Classic feminist protest literature, written by Betty Friedan, that helped launch the modern women's movement; an indictment of the "stifling boredom" of suburban housewifery. |
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Rock and roll |
Genre of popular music that fused black rhythm and blues with white bluegrass and country styles, crossing the cultural divide that had separated black and white musical traditions. |
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Checkers speech |
Televised speech made by vice-presidential candidate Richard Nixon, in which he responded to scandalous reports regarding a misuse of funds while he was in the Senate; the speech, in which he referred to the family's dog, saved his candidacy and illustrated the political potential of television. |
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McCarthyism |
Term for the dangerous forces of unfairness and fear that a democratic society can unleash; refers to the ruthless red-hunting of Senator McCarthy, who destroyed countless careers by feeding on the America's fears of communist infiltration, damaging the American traditions of fair play and free speech. |
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Army-mcCarthy hearings |
Televised hearings in which the U.S. Army fought back against Senator McCarthy's unwarranted accusations; the broadcast fascinated the American public and led to McCarthy's downfall, as he appeared irrational, reckless, and mean-spirited; he was condemned by Congress a few months later. |
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Jim crow |
Rigid set of antiquated segregation laws that governed all aspects of southern blacks' existence, keeping them economically inferior and politically powerless. |
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Montgomery bus boycott |
Yearlong boycott sparked by the arrest of Rosa Parks for violating the city's Jim Crow statues by sitting in the "whites only" section of a city bus. |
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Brown v. Board of education |
Unanimous Supreme Court decision which ruled that segregation in public schools was "inherently unequal" and thus unconstitutional and that desegregation should go ahead with "all deliberate speed"; reversed the 1896 Plessy vs. Ferguson decision that had ruled that "separate but equal" facilities were allowable under the Constitution. |
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Students nonviolent coordinating committee |
Formed in 1960 by impassioned southern black students to give more focus and force to the wave of "sit-in" protests organized to compel equal treatment in restaurants, transportation, employment, housing, and voter registration; members lost patience with the tactics of Dr. King's SCLC and the NAACP. |
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Operation wetback |
Massive roundup of one million illegal Mexican immigrants; a response to the Mexican government's concerns that illegal immigration would undercut the bracero program. |
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Federal highway act |
Federal Highway Act of 1956 Act that authorized a $27 billion public works project to build 42,000 miles of modern, multilane roads across the nation; created countless jobs but speeded suburbanization, with disastrous consequences for cities; also led to concerns about environmental impact and energy consumption. |
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Policy of boldness |
policy of boldness Foreign policy promoted by Secretary of State Dulles, which condemned "containment" of communism, promising to both "roll back" communism's gains and "liberate captive peoples", while also cutting military spending by building up a fleet of superbombers equipped with nuclear bombs; in practice, the policy was too aggressive for minor crises such as the failed Hungarian uprising and also proved to be staggeringly expensi |
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Hungarian uprising |
1956 rebellion by the Hungarians against their Soviet-controlled government; their desperate appeals for aid from America went unanswered and they were brutally crushed; exposed the rigid futility of the US policy of "massive retaliation." |
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Dien bien phu battle of |
Battle between French colonial forces in Indochina and Viet Minh guerillas; the Vietnamese nationalists were ultimately victorious and Vietnam was divided into two halves, with the North controlled by a communist regime led by Ho Chi Minh and the South governed by pro-Western Ngo Dinh Diem. |
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Suez crisis |
When Egyptian president Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal, British, French, and Israeli forces staged a joint assault on Egypt, cutting off Western Europe's oil supply; when the United States, who had been kept in the dark about the plan, refused to release emergency oil supplies, the allies were compelled to withdraw troops and the United Nations was forced to intervene. |
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Opec |
Organization formed by Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Iran, and Venezuela in 1960 to protect their oil interests; developed a stranglehold on the Western economies over the next two decades, as America went from being an "oil power" to becoming a net oil importer. |
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Sputnik |
Sputnik Soviet satellite launched into orbit in 1957, astounding the world and rattling America's self-confidence regarding scientific superiority and military security; Eisenhower established NASA and set aside billions for missile development. |
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Kitchen debate |
Debate between Khrushchev and Richard Nixon in 1959 which brought him particular notice leading up to the 1960 election. |
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Abstract expression |
An affair with the style of midtwentieth century modern art exemplified by jacksom pollocks what time is action paintings created by ceiling paint on canvases across the studio floor. |
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International Style |
Post WWII 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 quarter of the 20th century writers and personalities including JK Allen Ginsberg and William S Burroughs who bemoan Burger is conformity and advocated free form experimentation and life and literature. |
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Southern Renn. |
Literary outpourings of mom mid twentieth century southern writers begun by William Faulkner and Mark by a new critical appreciation of the regions burdens of history racism and conservatism. |
