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11th Grade
06/02/2008

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FDR
Definition

President during the great depresssion and WWII when he emerged as an international leader

Modern politician

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Thomas E. Dewey
Definition
met with Eisenhower to begin the process of coercing Ike to run for the presidency in 1952 as the Republican candidate
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Styles Bridges
Definition
Republican National Campaign manager for Eisenhower
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Samuel Rosenman
Definition
Roosevelt-Truman speechwriter
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B. Carroll Reece
Definition
Tennessee Congressman and chairman of the republican national comittee
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Wittaker Chambers
Definition
wrote the book The Witness that claimed Alger Hiss had been a member of the communist party and grew up with a head life thinking he was an outcast
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Dean Acheson
Definition
Secretary of state under Truman
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John Rankin
Definition
the virulent racist from mississippi during Truman's presidency
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F. edward Herbert
Definition
Louisianna Democrat
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Alger Hiss

Definition
Charged with perjury and partaking in espionage because of Chambers's book
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Harry Truman
Definition

Intervention in Korea, termination of the Lend-lease act after the war

Fought against communism with the Truman Doctrine

Berlin Airlift

Marshall plan to help Europe recover

Creation of israel

civil rights

 

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J. Robert Oppenheimer
Definition
leader of development of the atomic bomb
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Edward Teller, Ernest Lawrence
Definition
Punished for the prommoting making of the atomic hydrogen bomb
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Klaus Fuchs

Definition

A soviet spy for 8 years

Worked in bomb design assembly

gave detailed reports of atomic secrets to the soviets

was arrested and charged

most important atomic spy

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Andrei Sakharov
Definition
soviet who worked on the atomic bomb
Term

Joseph R. McCarthy

Definition
Senator who claimed there were communists in the State Department that they controlled American foreign policy.  listed 57 people
Term
Robert Taft
Definition
Republican in the senate who sided with McCarthy
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Mike Hammer
Definition
main charaacter in 7 novels by Mikey Spillane, the toughest guy in pulp fiction, a book on the reflection of the McCarthyite soul of the country
Term
Douglas MacArthur
Definition

head of american advisory group training the South Korean army exceeded his authority and ordred a bombing of North Korean airfields

Conquered Japan

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Syngman Rhee
Definition
leader of South Korea during atomic bomb era
Term
Von Neumann
Definition

created the Electronic Discrete Variable Arithmetic Calculater

Belief in war technology

IBM

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Lewis Strauss
Definition
promoted "super" the hydrogen bomb
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Matthew Bunker Ridgeway
Definition

Lead the Eighth Army after General Walton Walker's death

Planned to toughen army

Ridgeway takes over the Chinese suspicios McCarthur when the pres. gets fed up

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Kenneth Jackson
Definition
wrote the book Crabgrass Frontier about comparing the housing market to the auto industry
Term
Eugene Ferkaut
Definition
made stores and shopping areas in the new suburb Levittown areas outside the city
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Dick and Maurice McDonald
Definition
Opened the first McDonald's restauraunt
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James Collins

Definition
opened the first Kentucky Fried Chicken
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Kemmons Wilson
Definition
opened the first Holiday Inn
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Eddie Bluestein
Definition
architect for the motel business
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Ray Kroc
Definition
franchised McDonald's
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Fred Allen
Definition
was a comedian who Hated TV, Allens Alley Show
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Bert Perks
Definition
TV show Stop the Music!
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Ed Sullivan
Definition
Popular variety tv show host
Term
Eric Barnow
Definition
historian of tv and radio broadcasstgin, recieved the George Polk award for his work
Term
Milton Berle
Definition
vaudeville slapstick comic
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Estes Kefauver
Definition

Senator from 1949 to 1963, opposed o the concentration of US economic and political power under the control of a wealthy, exclusive elite

Running mate for Adlai Stevenson

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Allen Ginsberg
Definition
famous poet during the Beat Generation
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Lucien Carr
Definition
editor of United Press International, beat generation icon
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Jack Kerouac
Definition

Writer at Columbia, beat genration

Autobiograpy Jack's Book

Term
William Burroughs
Definition

His grandfather invented the "adding machine"

homosexual

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John Clellan Holmes
Definition
Wrote Go
Term
The Beats
Definition
"different" people who were fascinated by criminal life/urban black culture/drugs/African American music
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Malcom Cowley
Definition
Editor and Critic during the beat generation
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Lawrence Feringhetti
Definition
Wrote Pocket Poet Series
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Kenneth Rexroth
Definition
major figure in San Fransisco beat Poetry
Term
William Carlos Williams
Definition
beat poet
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Richard Nixon
Definition

Tilted nomination for Eisenhower so he would win

Liberal Economic policies

Republican loyalist--Anti communist

Not popular with either wing of gov't.

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Sullivan and Crommwell
Definition

New York's best corporate firm

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Paul Smith
Definition
president of Whittier college where Nixon went
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Pat Ryan
Definition
Nixon's wife
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Helen Gahagan Douglas
Definition
Former actres/ran against Nixon for senate in 1950
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Mort Sahl
Definition
Nightclub comedian
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Gloria Steinborn
Definition
journalist/leader in women's movement
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Sam Rayburn
Definition
enemy of Nixon, House speaker, democrat
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Jim basset
Definition
Nixon's press secretary
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Adlai Stevenson
Definition
accused Republican party of being 1/2 Eisenhower and 1/2 McCarthy
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Sherman Adams
Definition
met with Eisenhower, noticed that Eisenhower was nominated because of his popularity, not his brains
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J. Edgar Hoover
Definition
Helped Nixon during the Hiss case, but thought he took too much credit for himself
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Clyde Tolson
Definition
Hoover's aid, wrote a memo saying that Nixon was helping both parties
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Seymour Korman
Definition
Chicago Tribune writer, Nixon's presidency
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Stephen Ambrose

Definition
Nixon's biographer, poined out that Nixon grew up without pets, even though he was raised on a farm
Term
Roger Ailes
Definition
NIxon's Television advisor int the 1968 campaign
Term
Jessamyn West
Definition
Writer, Nixon's cousin, said that Milhouses didn't like non-Milhouse blood in their family.  Interviewed NIxon's wife and found that her childhood taught her to ignore fatigue
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David Hawkins
Definition
partner in charge of interviwing young men at New York's corporate firm (Sullivan and Crommewell) noticed Nixon's "shifty-eyed" manner
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Herman Perry
Definition
Banker, urged Nixon to run for congress
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Will Ryan
Definition
Nixon's father-in-law, prospector
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Kate Halbert Bender
Definition
Nixon's mother-in-law
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Mamie eisenhower

Definition
Eisenhower's wife who looked down upon Pat
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William Borden

Definition

Chief staff aide on the Joint Comittee on Atomic Energy

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John Wheeler
Definition
Was assigned to study Oppenheimer's security file by Borden
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Rosa Parks

Definition
refused to give up hwer bus seat to a white man in 1955, Montgomery Alabama
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J.F. Blake
Definition
bus driver on which Parks was arrested
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Ed Nixon
Definition
Came up with the Bus Boycott
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Definition
President of the Montgomery Improvement Association, led the bus boycott
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Marilyn Monroe
Definition
Blonde acress, nude picture in Playboy
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Hugh Hefner
Definition
started Playboy
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Crewmen Kuboyama
Definition
Injured after the Hiroshima explosion, Americans tried to send in doctors but weren't allowed, US tried to cover up the issue
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Curtis LeMay

Definition

lead the Strategic Air Command in Washington DC

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Mohammed Mosadegh
Definition
left wing prime minister of Iran
Term
Kermit Rooevelt
Definition
grandson of Teddy, young CIA opperative in charge of the coup of Mohammed Mosadegh in Iran
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John Emil Peurifoy
Definition
US ambassador to Guatemala during the 1954 coup
Term
Castillo Armas
Definition
was who the CIA chose to replace the democratically elected Jacobo Guzman
Term

Arthur Sulzberger

Definition
NY times publisher
Term
Dulles
Definition

Sec. of State under Eisenhower

bambastic and more agressive than him

 

Term
Admiral Arthur Radford
Definition

chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

 

Term
General Ridgeway
Definition
Opposed to intervention in Vietnam
Term
Ho Chi Minh
Definition
corrupt North vietnam leader
Term
Betty Furness
Definition
"Queen of American appliances", a major Westinghouse rep., model homemaker
Term
Ernest Dichter
Definition
motivational research expert, tried to explain consmer's conflict between pleasure and guilt
Term

Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (tv show)

Definition

Ozzie Nelson: Workaholic father

Harriet Nelson: Mother put family first

David Nelson: Oldest son, reliable

Ricky Nelson: Younger, mischevious son

Term
David Riesman and Nathan Glazer
Definition

wrote The Lonely Crowd about the inner and outer directed american, who was increasingly adopting the values of society rather than what he personally believed

Term
Dewey Phillips
Definition
DJ who played Presley's first hit
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Bill Haley
Definition
wrote "Rock around the Clock" a contraversial song of the time
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Sam Phillips
Definition
Music producer who first discovered black music, marketed Presley
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Grace Metalious
Definition
wrote Peyton Place which became a bestseller because it talked of a pristene smalltown with dark sex related secrets
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Betty Goldstein
Definition
wrote THe Feminine Mystique about the disilluson and unfulfilled lives of the typical suburban housewife
Term
Dr. John Rock
Definition
Worked with Pincus and Chang of the Worcester Foundation on the development of the pill contraceptive
Term
Wernher von Braun
Definition
Space program in America, previously worked for Nazi Germany
Term

Jim Hagerty

Definition
Ike's press secretary announced that the Navy team would send a satellite team  which failed
Term
Charles Van Doren
Definition
TV's first intellectual star
Term

Richard N. Goodwin

Definition
a young invertigator who looked into quiz show scandals
Term

Orval Faubus

Definition
governor of Little Rock
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Virgil Blossom
Definition
Little Rock Central superintendant, anted integration to begin low and work up
Term
Daisy Bates
Definition
Head of Little Rock NAACP
Term
Elizabeth Eckford
Definition
Went to the first day of school by herself at Little Rock Central, harassed
Term
John Chancellor
Definition
young NBC reporter who covered the little rock story
Term
Ira Lipman
Definition

white friend of one of the little rock nine, became chancellor's key source inside the school

Term
Ralph Bunche
Definition
given an honorary degree during the peak of his career at the UN, most honored and least contraversial black man in the country
Term
Elizabeth Huckaby
Definition
VP at Little Rock school, managed violence
Term
Earnest Green
Definition
first of the little rock nine to graduate
Term
William F. Russell
Definition
First drafted black basketball player drafted by the Boston Celtics by Arnold Auerbach
Term
Nikkita Chruschev
Definition
Angry Russian Premier
Term

Fulgencio Batista

Definition
Cuban Dictator
Term
Carl E.T. Smith
Definition
American Batista supporter, American ambassador to cuba
Term
James Dean
Definition
movie star, rebel
Term
Ed Cole
Definition

put in charge of making new Chevy

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