The 1950s
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- Termination
- policy which ended the reservation system on a tribe-to-tribe basis
- Unions
- grew to 18.5 Million
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- 26 year old Baptist Minister, civil rights leader
- Automation
- machines preformed faster than humans (fewer workers needed)
- Sputnik
- Oct. 1957, soviet satellite - pushes USA to follow
- Golden Age of TV
- (1) helped consumerism - ads (2) 46 million households owned at least one TV (3) Mostly showed middle class whites
- 1952 Election
- Eisenhower wins 33% of vote against Stevenson
- Linda Brown
- young black girl prevented from attending an all white school
- Highway Act of 1956
- Act which greatly expanded the nation's highway systems
- Brown v. Board of Education
- 1954, Topeka, Sup. Court ruled separate was not equal in schools
- Thurgood Marshall
- NAACP lawyer (segregation psych. damages black kids)
- Early 1950s
- (1) economic prosperity (2) post WWII spending spree (3) unemployment and inflation were low (4) 60% of Americans earning a middle class income
- Brinkmanship
- threatening all out war in order to confront communist agression
- Korean Armistice
- July 27th, 1953 - divided Korea into two nations at the 38th parallel
- Joseph McCarthy
- Wisconsin senator - fueled suspicions about communism - pointed fingers
- Urban Renewal
- improved inner-city housing, replaced old buildings
- Explorer I
- 1958, US Satellite
- Modern Republicanism
- Eisenhower's attempt to balance liberal domestic reforms and conservative spending
- Landrum-Griffin Act
- 1959 - Banned ex-convicts from holding union offices, required frequent elections of officers, and regulated investment of union funds
- Rosa Parks
- black seamstress from Tuskegee, AL
- Civil Rights Act of 1957
- made it a federal crime to stop someone from voting
- National Defense Education Act
- Millions put into math, science, language in schools
- Orval Faubus
- governor who spoke against desegregation. Ordered National Guard to stop Little Rock Nine
- Montgomery Bus Boycott
- 1955 - 50,000 blacks boycott buses
- End of Korean War
- US loses - 4000 dead & 103,000 wounded / 1.3 million Chinese & Koreans dead
- Montgomery Improvement Association
- group of civil rights leaders, helped lead boycott
- Hydrogen Bomb
- 1952, 1,000 times stronger than atomic bomb
- Little Rock Nine
- 1957, nine black kids admitted to all white Central High