| A | B |
|---|
| New Look | the more militant rhetoric of American foriegn policy that overlay an on going commitment to maintain to contenment |
| Eisenhower Doctrine | allowed the president, in times of crisis, to preempt congress power to declare war |
| mass automobility | the ability for the majority of the public to become more mobile as a result of the combination of more automobiles and better roads |
| brinksmanship | threat of massive nuclear retaliation as a response to the threat of soviet agression |
| abstract expressionism | an art movement after the war that emphasized the importance on individual perspective in the apprehension of reality |
| Sputnik | Soviet space satelite that beat the Americans to space |
| covert operations | secret operations by CIA used to further Dulles and Eisenhower's foriegn policy |
| U-2 | American spy plane |
| Interstate Highway Act | act to build massive interstae highway; largest public works project in history public |
| St. Lawrence Seaway | opened Great Lakes to ocean shipping |
| William Whyte | wrote Organization Man (1956): rootless families moved from town to town by corporations |
| Jacobo Arbenz Guzman | president of Guatemala; considered a communist; tired to reduce poverty by confiscatingidle farmalnd to rich to poor |
| Beruit, Lebanon | location where marines came ashore when country claimed to be infiltrated by Nassar, Pres. of Egypt |
| Billy Graham | led revival of evangelistic denominations and sects; reached audience by tv, radio, books, and advertising |
| John Foster Dulles | Secretary of State; viewed Soviet-American as fight between good and evil |
| Nikita Khrushchev | succesor to Stalin and leader of a move moderate regime in USSR |
| Gary Powers | CIA pilot captured by soviet union when flying a U-2 American spy plane |
| Modern Republicanism | Eisenhower projected an paternal calm, pusuing a consensus among the country |
| civil religion | During 1950's, religion began to slowly strip away from the suburban culture and became segregating factor |
| conglomerate | often turned small companies into larger ones; joining corporations |
| Sunbelt phenomenon | During 1947-60, African Americans began moving to the suburbs and whites began to diversify, in far west |
| beatniks | term used to refer people who embraced ideas of writers who expressed dissatsifaction of contemporary American society and alternative values |
| open skies | allowing aircraft belonging to any nation the freedom to fly over an area |
