What grew a lot between 1945 and 1960 (stimulated economic growth)
population

Medical things developed 1920-1950s
Penicillin
Vaccines

Technological developments in 1940s
transistor
integrated circuit

Technological development in 1950s
computer

Chemical development in war
DDT

Thing that led to increased consumerism in 50s
credit

Reasons to go to suburb
racism
family

What did television show (it became extremely popular in 50s)
white middle class

What activity became popular during 50s
vacation

Group that wrote about how American life and politics is meaningless
beats

Biggest movement of 50s
civil rights

What group did MLK lead
SCLC

What did Eisenhower work to fix
deficit

Most important figure in Eisenhower administration
Dulles

Leader of American south vietnam (kind of undemocratic)
Ngo Dinh Diem

What does Eisenhower cut to Cuba in 1961 when Castro takes over
sugar export

When Britain and Israel invade Egypt as Nasser wants to build dam what does US do (to not alienate middle east)
make peace

What conflict did Eisenhower prevent
vietnam

When Kruschev visits US and Eisenhower plans on visiting Moscow what happens causing it to cancel and increasing tensions
U-2 shot down

Major infrastructure by Eisenhower
Highway Act of 1956

Name of British and French seizing of Egypt dam
Suez crisis

Policy of using threat of nuclear war instead of other things to reduce military spending
brinkmanship

Board that gave more money to education for space race
NDEA

Place where Kruschev and Eisenhower were going to talk about reducing arms (cancelled by U-2 incident)
Paris summit

Policy of launching way more nukes back in event of attack
massive retaliation