history chapter 18
history
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- massive retaliation
- strategy of threatening to use nuclear weapons in order to calm communists.
- NASA
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Beatniks
- young writers criticize American life in the 50's
- brinksmanship
- Eisenhower policy of going to the brink of war to oppose communist expansion
- baby boom
- significant increase in the number of children being born.
- silent generation
- 1950 high school and college students because of conform to expectation with a protest
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. for cold war
- Francis powers
- guy who crashed an American spy plane in Russia, captured, interrogated, made the U.S. look very bad because we denied it
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- baptist minister who lead the fight for equal rights bus boycott was his first major win
- Elvis Presley
- king of pop (January 8, 1935 - August 16, 1977)
- Rosa Parks
- lady who refused to give up her seat on a bus. arrested. started Montgomery bus boycott.
- Nikita Khrushchev
- Stalin's predecessor, anti-Stalin, wants to exist peacefully
- William Levitt
- created levittowns
- dr. jonas salk
- came up with cure for polio
- james dean
- american film actor in the movie "rebel without a cause"
- thurgood marshall
- lawyer in brown vs. board of education
- jack kerouac
- writer during the beat generation