Science & Technology Unit Study Guide
You should be familiar with each term, person, or event and be able to explain in detail**
People:
Neil Armstrong
Denton Cooley
Walter Cunningham
Michael DeBakey
John Glenn
Lyndon B. Johnson
John F. Kennedy
Jack Kilby
Yuri Gagarin
Organizations & Vocabulary:
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Texas Medical Center
OPEC
Texas Instruments
NASA
Sputnik
vacuum tube
boom and bust cycle
cartel
integrated silicon circuit
interdependence
productivity
synthetic blood vessels
transistor
Events:
*the “Space Race”
*NASA’s three space programs
*Space “firsts” (also know the first joint US-Soviet space flight in 1975)
*Moon Landing (from “In the Shadow of the Moon” documentary film)
 Define Apollo, Kennedy, Eagle, Tranquility Base, Houston
*JFK’s main task given to NASA
*LBJ’s contribution to the space program
*Effects of boom and bust cycle on NASA’s space program
*Products used by people today originated by space technology
*Three main purposes (or sources funded) of medical facilities during the 1950s and 1960s
*Four major medical areas in Texas
*Two Primary Benefits of the Medical Field upon Texas
*Significance of DeBakey’s medical inventions and innovations:
 What were his inventions?
 How did they effect the everyday lives of Texans?
*Significance of Cooley’s medical inventions and innovations:
 What were his inventions?
 How did they effect the everyday lives of Texans?
*Ways that Houston’s large medical facilities created interdependence between Texas, U.S. world
*Effects of boom and bust cycle on medical research, hospitals in Texas (especially Houston)
*Effects of the boom and bust cycle on the oil industry in Texas
*How did Agriculture production increase in the 1950s and 1960s?
*What were some Environmental Problems in the 1950s and 1960s?
*Significance of OPEC:
 What was its purpose?
 How did the Energy Crisis affect the everyday lives of Texans?
ITEMS TO STUDY:
1. Science & Technology Unit G-PERSIA Vocabulary
2. Science & Technology Unit People ID
3. Science & Technology Unit Power Notes
4. The Medical Field 1950s to Present Organizer
5. Science & Technology FACT SHEET
6. Chapter 24, Section 1: Red Scare, JFK, LBJ
7. Chapter 24, Section 2: Science & Tech, People of Texas Bio’s (Cunningham & DeBakey)
8. Chapter 25, Section 3: Agriculture, Environmental Concerns, Oil Economics
9. Chapter 26, Section 2: Boom and Bust Oil Cycle