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13 Cards in this Set
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McCarthysim
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Term for making ruthless and unfair charges against opponents, such as those leveld by a red-hunting Wisconsin senator in the 1950s.
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Senator McCarthy
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Brown Vs. The Board of Education
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Supreme Court ruling that overturned the old Plessy vs. Ferguson principle that black public facilities could be "seperate but equal"
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SEATO
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An Asian alliance, set up by Secretary Dulles on the model of NATO, to help support the anticommunist regime in South Vietnam
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Sputnik I
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A soviet scientific achievement that set off a wave of American concern about Soviet superiority in sciences and education
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IBM
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Major international corporation that symbolized the early computer and "information age"
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U2 Incident
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High flying American spy plane, whose downing in 1960 destroyed a summit and heightened Cold War tensions
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Cuba
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Latin American country where a 1959 communist revolution ousted a US backed dictator
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The Feminine Mystique
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Betty Friedan's 1963 book that launched a revolution against the suberban "cult of domesticity" that reigned in the 1950s.
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Dwight G Eisenhower
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the soldier who kept the nation at peace for most of his two terms and ended up warning American about the "military-industrial complex"
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Joseph R McCarthy
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Reckless and power-hungry demagogue who intimidated even president Eisenhower before his bubble burst
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Earl Warren
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controversial jurist who lead the Supreme Court into previously off-limits social and racial issues
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Martin Luther King Jr
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Black minister whose 1955 Montegomery bus boycott made him the leader of the civil rights movement
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Ho Chi Minh
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A Vietnamese nationalist and communist whoe defeat of the French led to calls for American military intervention in Vietnam
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