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| What authorized low-interest mortgage loans for veterans? | G.I. Bill |
| What were the prefabricated homes built w/assembly line practices? | Levittowns |
| What was the term used to describe the growing economy of the 1950s? | Affluent nation |
| Truman's economic plan, which included plans for health care & civil rts. legislation, was called.... | the Fair Deal |
| One of Truman's faults was that he was accused of being.... | "Soft on Communism" |
| Eisenhower's Presidency was charactereized by: | compromise, scaling back on govt. power, more power to the cabinet & advisors & friendly to business |
| Eisenhower's VP was? | Richard Nixon |
| During Eisenhower's campaign, Nixon was accused of accepting illegal campaign funds, so he gave...... | the Checkers Speech, where he said the only thing he had accepted was his dog, Checkers |
| In 1954, the Supreme Crt. ruled that schools should be desegregated with "all deliberate speed" in.... | Brown v. Board of Education |
| In 1953, who refused to give up their seat on the bus? | Rosa Parks |
| Rosa Parks & Martin Luther King, Jr. began what protest movement? | Montgomery Bus Boycott |
| In the postwar years, many believed that happiness was found with the home & family.....this was the idea of... | Domesticity |
| The huge increase in the birthrate from 1945-1962? | Baby boom |
| A book & movie that focused on the unhappy life of many men was called, | The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit |
| Women also found life frustrating as movies & books reminded them their places were in the home, such as.... | moviestar Doris Day |
| One book that said housewives were robbed of their creative potential was....... | Betty Friedan's book "The Feminine Mystique" |
| Rebellion in the 50s took form in movies, such as with.... | James Dean in "Rebel W/out a Cause" & Marlon Brando in "The Wild One" |
| A Youth protest movement that saw writers & artists protesting, hanging out in coffee houses, and listening to music were the.... | Beat Generation |
| The most rebellious movment of the 50s was.... | Rock & Roll w/ Elvis Presley |
| Who won the Election of 1960? | John F. Kennedy (JFK) |
| What was significant about the Election of 1960? | it was the 1st election affected by television |
| JFK's domestic policies were called the.... | New Frontier, to stimulate the economny & attack poverty |
| JFK's plan to allow volunteers to help in developing countries around the world.... | Peace Corps |
| One of JFK's top priorities was the.... | Space Program/ Space Race |
| Famous 1sts: | 1st human: Yuri Gagarin, 1st American: Alan Shepard |
| Who assassinated JFK? | Lee Harvey Oswald |
| What was appointed to investigate JFK's death? | Warren Commission |
| Who became President after JFK's death? | Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) |
| LBJ's plan to help America was.... | the Great Society and to launch a War on Poverty |
| What was included in LBJ's Great Society? | VISTA- volunteers to work in poor communities, Dept. of HUD- created as a new cabinet position, Head Start- to help disadvantaged preschool kids, Medicare & Medicade- help people & eldedrly w/hospital costs |
| Which two groups were founded to help fight for Civil Rights? | Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) & Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) |
| What was an effective protest technique used in the Civil Rts. Movement? | the Sit-In |
| During the Summer of '61, when Civil Rts. workers rode buses throughout the South to test the desegregation laws... | Freedom Rides |
| In '63, thousands of people, including MLK, participated in which protest movment? | the March on Washington |
| What made discrimination illegal on the basis of race, sex, religion, or national origin? | Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
| Series of riots that broke out in Los Angelas in August 1965 protesting for Civil Rights..... | Watts Riots |
| What investigated the Watts Riots & determined racism & poverty were the cause? | Kerner Commission |
| Which group opposed integration? | the Nation of Islam |
| Who became the most famous representative of the Nation of Islam? | Malcolm X |
| Who urged Blacks to be more militant & to support "Black Power?" | Stokely Carmichael |
| Which civil rights group wanted to protect Blacks from police harassment & promote black militant power? | Black Panthers |
| Who founded the Black Panthers? | Bobby Seale & Huey Newton |
| Another name for the = rights movement was ..... | Feminism |
| What was the feminist organization founded by B. Friedan? | NOW (Natl. Organization for Women) |
| Ms. Magazine for feminist readers, was started by..... | Gloria Steinem |
| Sup. Crt. case that est. a woman's right to an abortion? | Roe v. Wade |
| What movement wanted Indians to be acknowledged during this time? | American Indian Movement (AIM) |
| Who organized the Hispanic, United Farm Workers against grape growers in CA? | Caesar Chavez |
| Who wrote which book about the dangers of pesticides in the environment? | Rachel Carson wrote "Silent Spring" |
| What was a failed invasion of Cuba by the US? | Bay of Pigs |
| In 1961, the Soviets divided Berlin in half to stop refugees from trying to flee to the West......this was the? | Berlin Wall |
| What was the conflict between the US & Soviets over Russian missiles discovered in Cuba? | Cuban Missile Crisis |
| Since the 50s, the US supported noncommunists in S. Vietnam against the N., led by.... | Ho Chi Minh |
| The Vietnamese communists who lived in S. Vietnam but supported the N...... | Vietcong (VC) |
| What gave LBJ the power to "take all necessary measures to repel" attacks against us? | Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
| A turning pt. in the Vietnam War...when VC soldiers attacked the American embassy in Saigon, making the VC think they could win.... | Tet Offensive |
| Two things the US was using to make our way through the jungles.... | Napalm & Agent Orange |
| Situation where over 300 women, children, & the elderly were murdered by US soldiers..... | My Lai Massacre |
| Student group protesting the Vietnam War.... | Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) |
| Many students at Univ. of CA at Berkely fueled the..... | Free Speech Movement |
| What was disrupted in 1968? | Democratic Natl. Convention |
| The "Hippie" movement was known as the..... | Counterculture |
| The most outward example of the "peace & love" rebels of the '60s? | Woodstock Music Festival |
| Nixon's plan for handling Vietnam was called? | Vietnamization- where the S. Vietnamese army was trained & US forces gradually pulled out |
| After Nixon announced his plans for expanding the Vietnam war, there were many protest movmenmts...such as | Kent State University in OH, & Jackson St. Univ. in Mississ. |
| In '71, a series of documents were released that showed the govt. had been deceiving the public about the war since '64... | Pentagon Papers |
