Chapter 37: The Eisenhower Era
Identify the following terms:
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Senator Joseph
McCarthy
Emmitt Till
Sweatt v. Painter
Rosa Parks
Montgomery Bus
Boycott
Martin Luther King,
Jr.
Earl Warren
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Brown v. Board of
Education of Topeka,
Kansas
Orval Faubus
Civil Rights Act
Southern Christian
Leadership Conference
(SCLC)
Student Non-violent
Coordinating Committee
(SNCC)
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Interstate Highway Act
John Foster Dulles
Nikita Khrushechev
Ho Chi Minh
Warsaw Pact
Sputnik I & II
Kitchen debate (look this
up)
The Feminine Mystique /
Betty Friedan
After reading Chapter 38, answer the following questions:
1. What were Dwight D. Eisenhower’s qualifying credentials to be President?
2. Explain why Nixon gave the “Checkers speech”? What did it demonstrate about the power of
television on politics?
3. Why did Ike defeat Adlai Stephenson?
4. What were the costs of the Korean War? What was the result?
5. What was the impact of McCarthy’s “red hunt”?
6. What was life like for Southern blacks?
7. Where did the end of segregation begin? Why did it begin there?
8. How did the South respond to the Brown v. Board of Education ruling?
9. What was Ike’s reaction to Brown v. Board?
10. What situation occurred in Little Rock, AK that required Ike’s response? How did he respond?
11. Describe the sit-in movement.
12. How did Ike respond to Mexican immigration? To Native Americans?
13. What was Dulles plan to roll back communism and reduce spending at the same time?
14. In 1954, in what way was the U.S. involved in the French colonial war in Indochina?
15. What happened at Dienbienphu? What was the result of this French loss?
16. Why did the U.S. support Mohammed Reza Pahlevi (the Shah) to rule Iran?
17. What crisis occurred over the building of the Suez Canal? What was the outcome?
18. Why was the launching of the Sputnicks so frightening to Americans? What was the U.S.
response?
19. Describe the conflict between the U.S. and Cuba under Castro?
20. Describe the growth of the economic opportunities available to women.
21. What cultural changes occurred in the 1950s?