| A | B |
|---|
Jim Crow,  | set of rules/customs/laws designed to keep blacks out of power |
| segregation, | separating races |
| integration | blending races |
Little Rock Nine,  | first blacks to integrate Little Rock High School in Arkansas |
Rosa Parks,  | wouldn't give up bus seat |
KKK,  | white supremacists |
Montgomery bus boycott,  | boycott that forced integration of Montgomery buses |
Sputnik,  | Soviet satellite; first to get into outerspace |
duck and cover,  | drill to survive nuclear war |
| air raid drill | drill against bomb |
Iron Curtain,  | divide between "free world" and Communist world in Europe |
Dwight D. Eisenhower,  | president for most of the 1950s. |
| I Like Ike | campaign slogan of Dwight E. Eisenhower |
38th Parallel,  | border between North and South Korea |
Gen. Douglas MacArthur,  | general fired for insubordination during Korean conflict |
Levittown,  | first mass-produced suburban community |
Checkers Speech,  | speech given by V.P. Richard Nixon defending himself against charges of corruption |
| TV dinner | 1953 |
| Elvis Presley | king of rock and roll |
the Rosenberg trial,  | a couple who were convicted to passing nuclear secrets to the Russians; they were found guilty and sentenced to the electric chair |
McCarthyism,  | hunting for communists |
Red Scare,  | fear of communist infiltration |
| Interstate Highway System | created starting 1956; 41,000 miles of highway |
| Dien Bien Phu | disastrous battle for French that convinced them to abandon French Indochina; start of American involvement in Vietnam |
Brown v. Board of Education,  | set of law suits filed by blacks demanding equal access to education |
Warsaw Pact,  | alliance of Eastern European countries and the USSR |
| NATO, | alliance of western European countries and the US |
Disneyland,  | opened in 1955 |
| polio vaccine | developed by Dr. Jonas Salk; cured common illness that caused paralysis |
hula hoop,  | popular 50s toy and fad |
fallout shelter,  | usually built underground; protection against nuclear attack |
Barbie,  | doll introduced in 1959 by Mattel |
baby boom,  | rapid increase in birthrate after WWII; largest generation in US history; ; spurred a growth in suburbs and 3-4 child families |
Sunbelt,  | southern and southwestern states |
shotgun shack,  | home owned by poor Southerners |
franchise,  | allows a company to distribute its products or services through retail outlets owned by independent operators |
| suburbs | areas dominated by houses; on outskirts of major city centers |
| consumerism | large-scale buying, much of it on credit |
nuclear family,  | household made up of a father, mother and children |
Dr. Benjamin Spock,  | pediatrician and author of book of baby and child care |
beatniks,  | group of writers and artists who criticized materialism of American society and lack of individuality |
| affluence | wealth, riches, prosperity |
| inner city | the older, more populated and usually poorer central section of a city |
| GI Bill of Rights | money to WWII veterans to attend college or buy homes--helped lead affluent society of the 1950s |
| suburbia | rapid growth of suburbs after WWII; result of GI Bill, credit and Baby Boomers |
| White Flight | movement of whites from the inner-city to the suburbs; left inner-cities poverty stricken |
| American Dream | the iconic lifestyle of the 50s; house, car, 2.5 kids and all the modern conveniences |
| Affluent society | the high standard society that many south after WWII; keeping up with the Joneses; generation had grown up during the Depression; now they had money to live well |
| consumerism | constantly consuming products and services generated by the economy |
| planned obsolescence | marketing plan to get consumers to constantly update their existing products with the newest version of the same product; leads to a throw away society |
| throw away society | the result of constantly throwing away existing products before they are broken in order to have the newest version; result of planned obsolescence |
automania,  | the explosion of the automobile; a result of the economy, travel, commerce, suburbs |
| 22nd Amendment | limits the President to two terms |
military industrial complex,  | mentioned in Eisenhower's farewell speech; huge money making machine |
| Rock n Roll | new type of music that teenagers loved and parents hated; song of rebellious teens across America |
| beat movement | new generation of writers that believed the 1950s to be too boring, prudish and conformist. Beat poets and writers challenged the status quo and felt that America in the 50s was over-idealized. Another form of rebellion for teens and those at college age |
television,  | first came into American homes during the 50s. |
| bobby socks | fashion style |
pop culture,  | kkkkkk |
| Korean War | kkkkkk |
| containment | kkkk |
| U-2 incident | bad |
| Space Race | race between |
| Eisenhower Doctrine | Eisenhower |
| civil disobedience | disobeying |
