chapter 38
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- who said the checkers speech
- nixon
- who was elected in 1952
- Ike
- what did ike do when he couldnt promote peace in korea
- he threatened to use nuclear weapons
- McCarthy
- elected on a phony war record, accused Dean Acheson of employing 205 commies when he had concrete evidence for only 57 commies
- who wrote An American Dilemma which portrayed the paradox between American beliefs and its treatment of blacks
- Gunnar Myrdal wrote An American Dilemma
- Brown V. board
- reversed plessy V. ferguson
- what forced ike to react to discrimination in 1957
- Ike sent troops to allow troops into a school in Little rockk arkansas since the governor, Orval Faubus had called the national guard to keep blacks from getting into the school
- Civil Rights Act
- set up a civil rights commission to investigate violations of civil rights and authorized federal injunction to protect voting rights
- what did MLK help form
- The Christian Leadership Conference (1957) and SNCC
- operation wetback
- keep illegals from hurting the braceros program
- when was the interstate highway act passed?
- 1965
- john foster dulles
- promised to eradicated communism/rollback commie gains
- Ho chi Minh
- Vietnamese leader who had appealed to Wilson for help and we refused.By 1954 we were funding almost all of the costs of the Colonial war. dulles favored intense bombing but Ike didnt so Dienbienphu fell to the nationalists and was halved at the 17th parallel
- why were immigration laws changed
- they were changed so that hungarians who had retaliated against Soviet rule could come over
- when did we engineer a coup to put in Mohammed Pahlevi as shah of Iran
- 1953
- what was the Ike Doctrine
- aid thru military/economic aid but no troops
- landum Griffin ACt
- labor force leaders had to keep their books clean, prevent bullying tactics/boycotting/types of picketing
- results of Sputnik
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1) we thought they could launch intercontinental ballistic missiles
2)National Aeronautics and space administration to end the "missile gap"
3)The National Defense and Education Act - what killed opportunities of anti nuclear agreements in 1959
- a US spy plane was shot down
- 1960 who was the first Catholic president
- Kennedy
- what two places attained statehood in 1959
- Hawaii and Alaska
- who wrote the Feminine Mystique
- Betty Friedan