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Martin Luther King Jr. |
U.S. Baptist minister and civil rights leader. A noted orator, he opposed discrimination against blacks by organizing nonviolent resistance and peaceful mass demonstrations. He was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. Nobel Peace Prize (1964) |
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John F. Kennedy |
The Democratic nomination for the 1960 presidential election; he won with just enough delegates behind him for the nomination. He was the first Catholic presidential candidate since Al Smith in 1928. |
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Jackie robinson |
The first African American player in the major league of baseball. His actions helped to bring about other opportunities for African Americans. |
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Thurgood Marshall |
American civil rights lawyer, first black justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. Marshall was a tireless advocate for the rights of minorities and the poor. |
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Rosa Parks |
United States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery (Alabama) and so triggered the national civil rights movement (born in 1913) |
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James R. Hoffa |
Amer. trade unionist; served as the Gen. Pres. of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters from 1958-1971 |
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Ho Chi Minh |
Vietnamese communist statesman who fought the Japanese in World War II and the French until 1954 and South vietnam until 1975 (1890-1969) |
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Nikita Kruschev |
emerged as a leader in the Soviet Union after the death of dictator Josef Stalin. In 1956, he advocated reform and indirectly criticized Stalin and his methods. He became the Premier of the Soviet Union from 1958 to 1974. |
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Elvis Presley |
United States rock singer whose many hit records and flamboyant style greatly influenced American popular music (1935-1977) |
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Marilyn Monroe |
United States film actress noted for sex appeal (1926-1962) |
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Robert F. Kennedy |
american politician; attorney general during brothers presidency and was assassinated during his bid for the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination |
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Election of 1952 |
Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) with Nixon as his VP (California business scandal) verses Adlai Stevenson (D) (Truman chose not to run again because he was unpopular because of the Korean war)…IKE wins with slogan "I LIKE IKE" |
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Jim Crow Laws |
Limited rights of blacks. Literacy tests, grandfather clauses and poll taxes limited black voting rights |
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Montgomery bus Boycott |
In 1955, after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a city bus, Dr. Martin L. King led a boycott of city busses. After 11 months the Supreme Court ruled that segregation of public transportation was illegal. |
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Brown v. Board of Education |
court found that segregation was a violation of the Equal Protection clause "separate but equal" has no place |
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Civil rights Act of 1957 |
Primarily a voting rights bill, was the first civil rights legislation enacted by Republicans in the United States since Reconstruction. |
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Sit-in Movement |
led by NAACP Youth Council, 1960 launched a wave of anti-segregation sit-ins across the South and opened a national awareness of the depth of segregation in the nation |
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Eisenhower Republicanism |
Refer to type of philosophy he had. Wasn’t extremely liberal or conservative |
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Operation Wetback |
U.S. Immigration Service attempt to remove 3 million illegal Mexican immigrants from southwest America in 1954 |
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French Vietnam War |
1946-1954. was fought in French Indochine between French and Vietnamese. End result was division of Vietnam at Geneva Conference. |
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Warsaw Pact |
treaty signed in 1945 that formed an alliance of the Eastern European countries behind the Iron Curtain; USSR, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania |
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OPEC |
an organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the production and sale of petroleum |
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Election of 1956 |
Adlai Stevenson/democrat vs. Dwight Eisenhower/republican= Eisenhower |
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Teamsters Union |
an industrial union of truck drivers and chauffeurs and warehouse workers |
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Sputnik II |
launched a month after the first, carried a dog. The dog was the first living creature to orbit Earth. |
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U2 |
Thing. American plane used for spying shot down by USSR. USA could no longer deny spying. 1960. |
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Election of 1960 |
The American presidential election of 1960 which ended Eisenhower’s two terms as President and had Nixon as the Republican candidate and Kennedy as the Democratic candidate |
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Great Debates |
The Four "_____ _____" showed unmistakably the influence of the supposedly discredited quiz programs. |
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Disneyland |
Disneyland opened in 1955 in Anaheim, California. It was a theme park, developed by Walt Disney and based around his cartoon characters. It was designated as a place for family entertainment. |
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