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Rosa Parks
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refused to let a white man take her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955, she was arrested, in fighting her arrest she initiated the Montgomery bus boycott
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Sputnik
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first artificial satellite to circle the earth, launched by the USSR and raised the fear that America was lagging behind in missile development and space exploration
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Mutually Assured Destruction
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The doctrine or military strategy in which two sides wield the power of extremely destructive weapons so that neither side has the incentive to make an attack.
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Eisenhower Doctrine
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Refers to the promise of American assistance if asked for by any nation being threatened by communist countries such as those of the Soviet Union. Although it goes against previous policies such as the Monroe Doctrine, the United States saw the economic capabilities of the Middle-east and did not want to take the chance of losing it to communist nations.
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
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Boycott on buses that occurred for about a year until segregation on buses became illegal.
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Geneva Accords
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These agreements temporarily separated Vietnam into two zones, a northern zone to be governed by the Việt Minh, and a southern zone to be governed by the State of Vietnam
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Nikita Khrushchev
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a politician who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War. He served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, or Premier, from 1958 to 1964
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Beat generation
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Authors in New York City who rejected everything mainstream and celebrated spontaneity and complete personal freedom, which included drugs
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Brown vs. Board of Education
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A group of 5 cases taken against the Board of Education to protest segregated schools. The court unanimously sided with Brown and declared that separate schools were inherently unequal, but President Eisenhower refused to endorse the decision
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Military-Industrial Complex
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The influence of the armed forces in conjunction with the industries that produced supplies for the military after World War II
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Levittown
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town built for a factory in 1949, similar to Lowell in the 1800s; in Long Island, NY; made up of relatively cheap but well-built houses; supported by the Federal Housing Administration and the Veterans Administration
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Hernandez v. Texas
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An all-white Texas jury convicted a Mexican man of murder, so members of the American GI Forum and LULAC appealed on the grounds that Mexicans had been excluded from juries; in 1954, the Supreme Court recognized this and found it unconstitutional
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