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| Name the most significant social trend in the postwar era in America. |
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| American consumers indulged in material goods |
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| Know the characteristics of America during the 1950s. |
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| "Classless" ;absence of very rich and very poor; middle class |
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| Identify the most critical element to life in the suburbs in the 1950s. |
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| Identify the subject of Dr. Benjamin Spock's best selling book in 1946. |
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| Name the first satellite placed in earth's orbit. |
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| Sputnik; October 4th, 1957 |
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| Identify the capabilities of Sputnik, the earth satellite put into orbit by the Soviet union in 1957. |
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| Catalyst for change; area of antional security; Killian = science advisor |
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| Identify the reason(s) for the passage of the National Defense Educational Act. |
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| Helped schools improve and broaden their science and math offerings, as academic leaders helped design "new math" and "new physics" courses |
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| Name the components of President Truman's Fair Deal Program. |
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| Medical insurance for all Americans Fair Employment Practices commission, federal aid to education |
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| Name the first president to seriously attempt to alter the historic pattern of racial discrimination in the United States. |
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| Identify the NAACP lawyer who argued Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision before the United States Supreme Court. |
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| Name the case overturned by Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. |
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| Identify who was appointed as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court by President Eisenhower in 1953. |
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| Know the outcome of the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision. |
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| Court ruled that desegregation of the schools should proceed "with all deliberate speed" |
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| Know the response of southern states to the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision. |
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| Responded with a policy of massive resistance |
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| Name the Arkansas governor who defied Wnited States Supreme Court orders to integrate publicc schools. |
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| Identify the location where President Eisenhower had to send federal troops in 1957 to enforce the desegregation of public schools. |
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| Little Rock Central High School |
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| Name the city where the beginning of active African American protest against discrimination took place. |
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| Identify the organization founded by Martin Luther King, Jr. to promote civil rights. |
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| Southern Christian Leadership COnference (SCLC) |
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| Identify the ideology behind Martin Luther King, Jr's philosophy of protest. |
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| Passive Resistance; Civil Disobedience |
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