Chapter 26: Affluence and Anxiety in the Atomic Age (1950-1959)
Test Questions and Answers Rated A
Federal-Aid Highway Act (1956)- Largest Landmark Supreme Court case that struck
federal project in US history, which created a down racial segregation in public schools and
national network of interstate highways declared "separate-but-qual" unconstitutional
GI Bill of Rights (1944)- Provided massive resistance- White rallying cry for
unemployment, education, and financial benefits disrupting federal efforts to enforce racial
for World War 2 veterans to ease their transition segregation in the South
back to the civilian world
Montgomery bus boycott- Boycott of bus
Southern Christian Leadership Conference system in Montgomery, Alabama, organized by
(SCLC)- Civil rights organization formed by civil rights activists after the arrest of Rosa Parks
Dr Martin Luther King Jr, that championed in 1955
nonviolent direct action as a means of ending
segregation nonviolent civil disobedience- Tactic of
defying unjust laws through peaceful actions
Dien Bien Phu- Cluster of Vietnamese championed by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
villages and site of a major Vietnamese victory
over the French in the First Indochina War massive retaliation- Strategy that used the
threat of nuclear warfare as a means of
Suez crisis (1956)- British, French, and combating the global spread of communism
Israeli attack on Egypt after Nasser's seizure of
the Suez Canal; President Eisenhower Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)-
interceded to demand the withdrawal of the Intelligence-gathering government agency
British, French, and Israeli forces from the Sinai founded in 1947; under Pres Eisenhower's
Peninsula and the strategic canal orders, it secretly undermined elected
governments deemed susceptible to communism
moderate Republicanism- Promise to curb
federal government and restore state and local Viet Cong- Communist guerrillas in
government authority, spearheaded by Pres Southern Vietnam who launched attacks on the
Eisenhower Diem government
suburbia- Communities formed from mass "falling-domino" theory- Theory that if one
migrations of middle-class Whites from urban country fell to communism, its neighboring
centers countries was necessarily follow suit
baby boom- Markedly high birth rate in the
years following WW2, leading to the biggest
demographic "bubble" in US history
Beats- Groups of bohemian writers, artists,
and musicians who flouted convention in favor of
liberated forms of self-expression
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)-
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Test Questions and Answers Rated A
Federal-Aid Highway Act (1956)- Largest Landmark Supreme Court case that struck
federal project in US history, which created a down racial segregation in public schools and
national network of interstate highways declared "separate-but-qual" unconstitutional
GI Bill of Rights (1944)- Provided massive resistance- White rallying cry for
unemployment, education, and financial benefits disrupting federal efforts to enforce racial
for World War 2 veterans to ease their transition segregation in the South
back to the civilian world
Montgomery bus boycott- Boycott of bus
Southern Christian Leadership Conference system in Montgomery, Alabama, organized by
(SCLC)- Civil rights organization formed by civil rights activists after the arrest of Rosa Parks
Dr Martin Luther King Jr, that championed in 1955
nonviolent direct action as a means of ending
segregation nonviolent civil disobedience- Tactic of
defying unjust laws through peaceful actions
Dien Bien Phu- Cluster of Vietnamese championed by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
villages and site of a major Vietnamese victory
over the French in the First Indochina War massive retaliation- Strategy that used the
threat of nuclear warfare as a means of
Suez crisis (1956)- British, French, and combating the global spread of communism
Israeli attack on Egypt after Nasser's seizure of
the Suez Canal; President Eisenhower Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)-
interceded to demand the withdrawal of the Intelligence-gathering government agency
British, French, and Israeli forces from the Sinai founded in 1947; under Pres Eisenhower's
Peninsula and the strategic canal orders, it secretly undermined elected
governments deemed susceptible to communism
moderate Republicanism- Promise to curb
federal government and restore state and local Viet Cong- Communist guerrillas in
government authority, spearheaded by Pres Southern Vietnam who launched attacks on the
Eisenhower Diem government
suburbia- Communities formed from mass "falling-domino" theory- Theory that if one
migrations of middle-class Whites from urban country fell to communism, its neighboring
centers countries was necessarily follow suit
baby boom- Markedly high birth rate in the
years following WW2, leading to the biggest
demographic "bubble" in US history
Beats- Groups of bohemian writers, artists,
and musicians who flouted convention in favor of
liberated forms of self-expression
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)-
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