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67 Cards in this Set
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Per Capita Income
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The average income per person which increased by two times in the post war years
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Conglomerates
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A large corporation that owns many smaller companies that produce entirely different goods and services, these happened for fear of investing all resources in one business after the depression
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Franchises
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THe right to open a restaurant using a parent company's brand name and system. The first of these was McDonald's
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Transistor
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A tiny circuit device that amplifies, controls, and generates electrical signals. Used to create the first computers
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Baby boom
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A greatly increased birth rate from 1945-1965
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GI Bill
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Servicement's Readjustment Act(1944) which gave WWII vets low-interest mortgages to purchase their new homes
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Rock and Roll
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Type of music that grew out of rhythm and blues and became popular in the 1950's
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Beatniks
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The young generation in the 1950's that stressed spontaneity and spirituality instead of apathy and conformity
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Taft-Hartley Act
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Act that allowed the president to declare an 80-day cooling off period when strikes hit industries that affected the national interest. Strikers had to return to work during this period while the government conducted a study of the situation
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Modern Republicanism
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President Eisenhower's approach to government, described as "conservative when it comes to money, liberal when it comes to human beings."
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National Defense Education Act
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(1958) Designed to improve science and math instruction in the schools so that the U.S. could meet the scientific and technical challenge from the Soviet Union
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
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"seperate facilities are inherently unequal"
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
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Protest in 1955-1956 by African Americans against racial segregation in the bus system of Montgomery, Alabama
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Integration
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The bringing together of different races
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Who was the Democratic candidate in the election of 1952?
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Adlai Stevenson
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Who was Adlai Stevenson's running mate?
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Sparkman
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Under what slogan did Stevenson run?
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"You've never had it so good"
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Who was the Republican candidate in the election of 1952?
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Eisenhower
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Who was Eisenhower's running mate?
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Nixon
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Under what slogan did Eisenhower run?
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"I like Ike"
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What was Nixon accused of in the 1952 election?
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He was accused of maintaining an $18,000 slush fund
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What were the main issues in the election of 1952?
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Korean War, communism, Cost of living, and technology (hydrogen bomb)
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What was the famous speech by Nixon and what was it about?
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Checkers speech; it was a speech saving himself and denying the slush fund, it talked of his personal finances and his dog named checkers
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Why were people newly interested in religion?
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It was a response to the cold war struggle against anti-communism
-Added the words under God to the pledge -In God we trust appeared on currency |
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What role were women expected to play in the 1950's?
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Supporting roles such as cooking, cleaning, and raising children
-PTA -Campfire girls -Charity cases |
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Who was a major teen idol and film legend?
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James Dean
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What book was a major controversy in the 1950's?
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Catcher in the Rye by Holden Caulfield
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What did the 13th amendment do?
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Abolished slavery or conditions of servitude
-exception was criminals who could be forced to labor at a penetentary, serve on a jury, or go into the military |
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What did the 14th amendment do?
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Defines citizenship:
-"jus soli"-law of the land;born here automatically a citizen -"Jus sanguinis"- law of the blood; If either parent is an american citizen you are a citizen -Naturalization-Legally immagrate to U.S. and obtain citizenship Rights: -Due Process -Equal protection clause |
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What did the 15th amendment do?
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Right to vote shall not be denied no matter race or color
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Jim Crow Laws
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Laws that found loopholes in amendments
-mostly in South -poll taxes, literary tests, grandfather clause, segregation |
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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Plessy wanted to sit in whatever train car he wanted to. Went to supreme court
-Supreme Court ruled "seperate but equal" |
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Brown v. Board of Education
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Linda Brown wanted to go to nice white school 2 blocks away
-went to supreme court -Decided seperate but equal was unconstitutional -BEGAN CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT |
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Who was the lawer of the B v. B of education?
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Thurgood Marshall
-1st black supreme court justice |
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"Operation Paperclip"
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Kidnapped Germ. engineers and scientists(127), V2 equip., and 14 tons of documents
-Used Germ. resources to gain advantage over soviets |
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When did the U.S. explode its first hydrogen bomb?
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1953
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When did the U.S.S.R send Sputnik into orbit
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October 1957
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What U.S. satellite failed to launch?
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Vanguard(Dec.1957)
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What was the first successful satellite the U.S. launched and when?
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Explorer I, Feb. 1958
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When did we land on the moon?
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July 16th, 1969 (race urged by JFK and Khrushchev
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Who was Ike's secretary of state?
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John Foster Dulles
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What was Dulles famous for?
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-Brinkmanship
-Pactomania -Active use of CIA to topple govs. and promote democracy -Aid to anti-communists($60 million to france in indochina to fight Ho Chi Min and aid to Shah of Iran) -Summits with leader Nakita Khrushchev |
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Sold Gov. rubber factories to public....Conservative or liberal?
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Conservative
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Ended price and wage controls on industry during the Korean War.....Conservative or liberal?
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Conservative
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Allowed offshore oil drilling...Conservative or liberal?
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Conservative
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Broadened the social security system to include more people(severe disabilities).....Conservative or liberal?
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Liberal
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Created Cabinet position of health, education, and welfare....Conservative or liberal?
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Liberal
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Increased money for medical research in hospitals...Conservative or liberal?
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Liberal
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Sold damns on Snake River...Conservative or liberal?
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Conservative
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Wanted to cut budget and taxes....conservative or liberal?
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Conservative
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New programs for urban slums and public housing...Conservative or liberal?
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Liberal
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What did the candidates of the election of '56 rely heavily on?
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Television
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What is the outcome of the election of '56?
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Ike wins and the democrats increase majority in house
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What were 3 advances of the civil rights movement in the 1950's?
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-Federal supreme court decisions
-Ike and Congress led by Linden Johnson pass the Civil Rights Act of 1957 -Exposure by the media of bigotry and discrimination throughout society |
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What dictator in 1958 was overthrown by Fidel Castro?
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Batista
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What did Castro do once he seized power?
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Seized foreign holdings, collectivised farms, made ties to U.S.S.R, and set up prison camps
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What did Khrushchev to when he came do the U.S.?
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(1959)Went to the west coast, wanted to go to disneyland, and met with Ike at camp david
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When did Khrushchev announce that the u.s.s.r. had shot down a u.s. plane?
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May 5, 1960-pilot was captured and confessed to spying
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After what term did Ike step down and what did he warn the u.s. about?
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His second term, warned of foreign dangers
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Where did Ike retire to?
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Gettysburg
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Who was considered a mudslinger?
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Nixon
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Who ran as president while holding the title of government of Illinois?
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Stevenson
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Who was a senator from California when he ran for office?
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Nixon
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Where was Orval Fabus from?
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Arkansas
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Who invented the polio vaccine?
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Sulk
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Who created McDonalds?
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Ray Kroc
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What was the most popular movie of 1955?
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Rebel without a cause
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