Chapter 28

Question 1

1. Baby Boom

Answer 1

a temporary marked increase in the birth rate,following World War II. 1946-1964

Question 2

2.Keynesian Economics

Answer 2

a theory of total spending in the economy would bring the country out of the depression

Question 3

3. AFL-CIO

Answer 3

the merging of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organization

Question 4

4. Teamsters Union

Answer 4

represents truck drivers and is the largest private sector labor union in the U.S.

Question 5

5. Antibacterial Drugs/Penicillian

Answer 5

created by Alexander Flemming who discovered pencillian by accident

Question 6

6. Jonas Salk

Answer 6

creator of the Polio Vaccine which was a disease that had killed thousands and crippled thousands

Question 7

7.UNIVAC

Answer 7

Universal Automatic Computer created in 1946 and completed in 1948

Question 8

8. Hydrogen Bomb

Answer 8

weapon deriving a large portion of its energy from the nuclear fusion of hydrogen isotopes

Question 9

9. ICBM

Answer 9

Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles have greater range and speed than other missles

Question 10

10. Sputnik

Answer 10

a Russian satellite that was the first object in space launched on October 4, 1957

Question 11

11. NASA

Answer 11

National Aeronautics and Space Administration, responsible for Space and Air devices

Question 12

12. Disneyland

Answer 12

the first amusement park to connect movie and television characters with rides

Question 13

13. Federal Highway Act of 1956

Answer 13

the process of putting in stronger and more sustainable highways for the purpose of people receiving jobs

Question 14

14.Levittown

Answer 14

a town in New York that was the first to vary the outsides of the home but have basically the same layouts

Question 15

15. Feminism

Answer 15

advocacy of women’s social, economic, and political rights as being equal as men’s

Question 16

16. Environmentalism

Answer 16

ideology regarding concerns for environmental protection

Question 17

17. The Organization Man

Answer 17

by William H. Whyte, the open mind of demands that people work and belong to organizations

Question 18

18. J. D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye

Answer 18

1951, controversial because of the ideas of teenage angst and alienation shared

Question 19

19. Beat Generation

Answer 19

Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Gregory Corso questioning mainstream politics and culture

Question 20

20. James Dean, Rebel without a cause

Answer 20

a movie that was inspirational to the rebels of the 1950’s

Question 21

21. Rock ‘n’ roll

Answer 21

A type of music characterized by a heavy beat and being a mixture of jazz and blues

Question 22

22. The Other America

Answer 22

Michael Harrington that was an influential study of poverty in the U.S. published in 1962

Question 23

23. Brown v. Board of Education

Answer 23

Supreme Court case in which the state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional

Question 24

24. Little Rock NIne

Answer 24

the nine black students in the Central High School who were walked to school by the National Guard

Question 25

25. Montgomery Bus Boycott

Answer 25

a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system

Question 26

26. Martin Luther King Jr.

Answer 26

a preachers son who advocated for equal rights did so peacefully

Question 27

27. Jackie Robinson

Answer 27

the first Black Major League Baseball player played for the Dodgers

Question 28

28. Army-McCarthy Hearings

Answer 28

investigations between April 1954 and June 1954 to accuse members of the army of being communists

Question 29

29. John Foster Dulles

Answer 29

U.S. Secretary of State under Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959 advocated an aggressive stance against communism throughout the world

Question 30

30. Massive Retaliation/Brinkmanship

Answer 30

the possible deterrence of an all out nuclear attack from the Soviet Union

Question 31

31. Dien Bien Phu

Answer 31

the fortress in Vietnam French forces were trapped and surrendered in 1954

Question 32

32. Muhammad Mossadegh

Answer 32

a premier of Iran,wished to nationalize the oil in Iran, replaced with help from the CIA

Question 33

33. Suez Canal Incident 1956

Answer 33

an Israeli and Egytian conflict between the control of the Suez canal which carried oil to the U.S.

Question 34

34. Fidel Castro

Answer 34

a communistic leader in Cuba who overthrow Edwin Bastista

Question 35

35. Military Industrial Complex

Answer 35

comprises the policy and monetary relations which existed between legislators and the arms indusrty