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