AP US History
Mr. Dunn
Chapter 30 study guide
The Affluent Society: 1940’s-1960’s
Important terms, people, and ideas
Baby Boom
Federal Highway Act
Suburbs
Impact of Automobile
Keynesian Economics
Levittown
John Maynard Keynes
Dr. Spock
AFL-CIO
Role of women
Penicillin
Beat Generation
Salk Vaccine
Jack Kerouac
Television
Rock-n-Roll
Hydrogen Bomb
The Other America
ICBM’s
Brown v. Board of Ed
Sputnik
Little Rock 9
NASA
Montgomery Bus
Apollo Program
Boycott
Consumerism
Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King Jr.
Causes of C.R.
movement
John Foster Dulles
Massive Retaliation
Brinkmanship
Dien Bien Phu
Israel
Suez Crisis
Fidel Castro
Nikita Krushchev
U2 Crisis
1. What was the baby boom?
2. Describe the idea of Keynesian economics and who came up with the idea.
3. Explain two examples in the 1950s and 1960s of success with Keynesian policy.
4. What was the AFL-CIO?
5. Explain the obstacles faced by labor unions in the 1950s.
6. Describe the impact of the Salk vaccine.
7. What was the Hydrogen bomb? When was it successfully detonated?
8. What is an ICBM and what did we use them for?
9. Describe what Sputnik was and the American reaction to Sputnik.
10. Describe the consumerism of the 1950s and the role of consumer credit.
11. Describe the importance of the Federal Highway Act of 1956.
12. Describe the impact of the Automobile.
13. Describe what Levittown was and what it symbolized.
14. Describe why feminism weakened in the 1950s.
15. Describe the impact of the television on American society.
16. Who were the Beats and what ideas did they represent?
17. Who was Jack Kerouac? Name his book, and explain the topic of his writing.
18. How was the impact of rock music similar to that of jazz and swing?
19. Who wrote The Other America and what was it about?
20. Describe the conditions on the inner cities.
21. Describe the decision made in Brown v. the Board of Education. Which famous
court case did this overturn?
22. Describe the actions of Eisenhower at Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas.
23. Describe the reason why the Montgomery Bus Boycott cam to a close.
24. Explain the strategy of Martin Luther King Jr.
25. What were the causes of the Civil Rights Movement?
26. John Foster Dulles
Position in the Eisenhower Administration:
Describe “massive retaliation”:
Describe “brinkmanship”:
27. Describe the problems associated with the creation of Israel as a Jewish homeland.
28. Suez Canal Crisis
When:
Describe the US actions that preceded the crisis:
Nassar’s reaction to US action:
Describe the role of Israel, Egypt, France, and Great Britain:
What did the US do to put an end to the crisis?
29. Why did Krushchev break up the Paris Summit with the US?