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The feminine mystique |
1963 best selling book by feminist thinker Betty Friedan. This work challenged women to move beyond the drudgery of suburban housewifery and helped launch what would become second wave feminism . |
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Rock n 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 address by vice presidential 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 accusations of corruption . |
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McCarthyism |
A brand of vitriolic, fear mongering anti communism associated with the career of senator Joseph McCarthy . In the early 1950's , 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 . |
Went to far for public approval and hearings exposed the senators extremism and led to his eventual disgrace . |
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Jim crow |
System of racial segregation in the American south from the end of reconstruction until the mud 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 that overturned plessy vs Ferguson (1896) and abolished racial segregation in public schools. The court reasoned 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 d Eisenhower to construct thousands of miles of modern highways in the came of national defense. |
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Policy of boldness |
(1954) foreign policy objective of Dwight eisenhowers Secretary of State John foster Dulles , who believed in changing the containment 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 Americas entry . |
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Suez crisis |
(1956) international crisis launched when Egyptian president Gamal Abdel 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 , wrestling power from western oil companies and investors . |
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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 s 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 |
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