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| Leading figure in 1960's womens movement who wrote a feminist book called The Feminine Mystique |
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| William Levitt/Levitttown |
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| American real estate developer who created Levittown- the nation's first planned community (suburbia) |
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| Southern baptist who rose to celebrity status as his sermons were broadcast on radio and television in the 1960's |
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| American biologist and professor that founded the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, as well as producing the Kinsey Reports and the Kinsey scale. |
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| American jurist and the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States |
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| Chief Justice on Supreme Court that ended segregation in public schools |
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| Black boy brutally murdered at 14 yrs. old for flirting with a white women. His controversial death was broadcast to unveil american intolerance for blacks |
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| Black, female civil rights activist that refused to sit in the back of the bus thus getting arrested, but unveiling the cruelty of American segregation |
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| Black, male civil rights activist that led many marches and speeches to support tolerance and nonviolence in America |
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| series of impromptu exchanges between then U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev at the opening of the American National Exhibition |
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| Interstate Highway and Defense Act of 1956 |
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| began the construction of the Interstate Highway System throughout America. |
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| practice of pushing dangerous events to the verge of disaster in order to achieve the most advantageous outcome |
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| Mutually assured destruction (MAD) |
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| a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two opposing sides would effectively result in the destruction of both the attacker and the defender becoming a war with no victor, only total destruction |
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| speculated that if one land in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect |
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| a model permanent status agreement to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict |
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| Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) |
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| an international organization for collective defense in Southeast Asia created by the Manila Pact |
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| United States corporation that traded in tropical fruit grown on third world plantations and sold in the United States and Europe |
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| a country, specifically in the Middle East, could request American economic assistance and/or aid from U.S. military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression from another state |
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| the first human-made object to orbit the Earth, launched by the Soviet Union |
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| National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) |
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| Executive Branch agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's civilian space program and aeronautics and aerospace research |
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| United States U-2 spy plane was shot down over Soviet Union airspace while collecting covert intelligence during the Cold War |
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| Military-industrial complex |
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| concept commonly used to refer to policy and monetary relationships between legislators, national armed forces, and the industrial sector that supports them |
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| book by Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith that outlined the manner in which the post-World War II America was becoming wealthy in the private sector but remained poor in the public sector |
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| a region of the United States generally considered to stretch across the South and Southwest defined by its warm-temperate climate with extended summers and brief, relatively mild winters |
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| 1954 operation by the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service to remove about one million illegal aliens from the southwestern United States, focusing on Mexican nationals |
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| period marked by a greatly increased birth rate due to economic prosperity in the US |
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| group of American post-WWII writers who came to prominence in the 1950s, as well as the cultural phenomena that they both documented and inspired |
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| Brown v. Board of Education |
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| Supreme Court case ruling that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional |
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| Central High School, Little Rock, AR |
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| School in which the first 9 black students integrated with white students causing mobs, riots, and federal troops |
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| political and social protest campaign that started in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, USA, intended to oppose the city's policy of racial segregation on its public transit system |
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| Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) |
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| American civil rights organization closely associated with M.L.K Jr. that had a large role in the American Civil Rights Movement |
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