Chapter 37 Reading Guide

Vocab The Feminine Mystique Rock ‘n’ roll Checkers Speech McCarthyism Army-McCarthy hearings Jim Crow Montgomery bus boycott Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Operation Wetback Federal Highway Act of 1956 Policy of boldness Hungarian Uprising Suez crisis Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Dien Bien Phu, Battle of Sputnik I Kitchen debate

Reading Questions 1. Describe the changes in technology and aerospace during the 1950s. 2. Explain the diverging trajectories of the work force and organized labor during the 1950s. 3. What popular 1950s TV shows celebrated the new "cult of domesticity"? 4. In numbers, describe the growing "pink-collar ghetto" of jobs dominated by women. 5. Describe the differing viewpoints on the social and psychological shocks brought on by the explosion of work opportunities for women. 6. Describe the sentiment of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique. Why is this book so important? 7. Describe changes in consumer culture during the 1950s in the following areas: food, television (& advertising) religion, sports, music ...and SEX!!!! 8. Identify implications of the new consumer lifestyle as portrayed by the works of Riesman, Whyte, Wilson, and Galbraith. 9. Who are the candidates in the 1952 election? What role does television play (be sure to understand the significance of the "Checkers Speech")? What role does the Red Scare play? 10. What finally prompted the armistice in the Korean War? What were the costs of this war: human, monetary, political? 11. Who was Joseph McCarthy, why is he notorious, and what accusations finally brought about his downfall? Define "McCarthyism". 12. Describe the state of Jim Crow in the South during the 1950s. How does voter registration attest to these laws' effectiveness? 13. Explain how Jackie Robinson, Wendell Wilkie, and Gunnar Myrdal helped frame the debate about equality for African Americans. 14. Identify the rulings of early Supreme Court victories in the Civil Rights movement. 15. Beyond the integration of Montgomery's busses, why is the bus boycott, prompted by Rosa Parks, so important to the Civil Rights movement in the long term? 16. Explain the ruling of the Warren court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1955). What finally prompts Eisenhower to move to support the decision? 17. What were the provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1957? 18. Identify the SCLC, The Greensboro Four, and SNCC and explain how they impacted the civil rights movement. 19. How did "Ike" strive to balance the budget and protect the U.S. from "creeping socialism"? 20. Describe how Mexican immigrants and Native Americans were affected by "Ike's" policies. 21. Despite being an anti New/Fair Dealer, what one project of Eisenhower's dwarfed anything from the aforementioned programs? What were the pros and cons of this investment? 22. Who is John Foster Dulles and how did his version of containment differ from Kennan's? 23. What is the SAC and what was its purpose? What airplane (alluded to in the section "Affluence and it's Anxieties) would be the flagship of the SAC, able to blow up a Rock Lobster or even a Loveshack? 24. How did the Hungarian revolt expose the flaw in Dulles' "massive retaliation" doctrine? 25. In a timeline, chronicle the Vietnam nightmare from 1919 through 1956, and including the following topics: self- determination, communism, French colonial war, Dienbienphu, Geneva accords, elections that never happened, and Ngo Dinh Diem. 26. Explain victories of the Cold War thaw in 1955. 27. What prompts the CIA to engineer a coup in Iran in 1953? Who is put into power and what were the short and long term consequences of this covert US action? 28. Explain the Suez crisis. Why? Who was involved? What was the final outcome? 29. Define the Eisenhower Doctrine and explain why it was misguided in the Middle East. How do oil producing countries respond to Western guzzling in 1960? 30. What prompted Congress to pass the Landrum-Griffin Act in 1959? What did this law do? 31. What event launched the Soviets ahead of America on October 4, 1957? What critical questions orbited around this event? How would America thrust back? 32. How does the American education system change as a result of Soviet space success? 33. What progress was made on the subject of nuclear testing in 1958? 34. Describe the Eisenhower Doctrine victory in the Middle East in July of 1958. 35. Explain the reasons for the "spirit of Camp David" in 1959. Also, explain how this hopeful spirit was blown out of the sky in 1960. (Hint: a "Bono-fide rock band is named after the plane) 36. Provide evidence of souring U.S. - Latin American relations during "Ike's" presidency. Explain the important defeat of the containment policy in the Caribbean. 37. Who are the candidates in the 1960 election? What role does religion play? What role does television play? Who won and what are the many significance of his victory? 38. What lame-duck accomplishments occur during Eisenhower's last year in office? 39. There are a bunch of author's at the end of this chapter know them and know their works.