Chapter 28

Cards (23)

  • Who discovered the polio vaccine?
    Jonas Salk
  • Who discovered penicillin?
    Alexander Flemming
  • Who discovered the smallpox vaccine?
    Edward Jenner
  • AFL-CIO
    1955 two larger labor unions united. American Federal Labor- Congress of Industrial Organization
  • baby boom

    the rapid population increase that took place between 1945 and 1960
  • UNIVAC
    Universal Automatic Computer, developed initially for the Bureau of the Census by the Remington Rand Company, was the first computer able to handle both alphabetical and numerical information easily
  • Sputnik
    The world's first space satellite. This meant that the Soviety Union had a missile powerful enough to reach the US. US was alarmed & spent money on education and the advancement of science
  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

    An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight
  • hydrogen bomb

    Invented in the 1950s, MORE powerful than atomic bomb, example of Cold War arms race
  • icbm
    a ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another
  • Alan Shepard
    astronaut who made the first US suborbital rocket-powered flight in 1961
  • Yuri Gagarin
    Soviet astronaut who completed first orbit around the earth
  • Federal Highway Act (1956)

    Under the Eisenhower Administration. Authorized $25 billion for a ten-year project that built over 40,000 miles of interstate highways. This was the largest public works project in American History.
  • Levittown
    William Levitt used mass production techniques to build inexpensive ("cookie cutter") homes in suburban NY
  • Dr Benjamin Spocks
    Wrote Baby and Child Care which advised women to stay home with their children
  • David Riesman
    Wrote The Lonely Crowd that emphasized the shift in American culture toward conformity
  • Echo Park

    National park in the Dinosaur National Monument, on the border between Utah and Colorado, near the southern border of Wyoming
  • Saul Bellow
    Novelist who produced a series of novels including The Adventures of Augie March, Seize the Day, Herzog, and others that emphasized the struggles of Jewish men in America
  • J. D. Salinger
    Wrote The Catcher in the Rye about adolescents and insecurity in society
  • William H. Whyte Jr.

    Writer of one of the most discussed books of the decade, The Organization Man, which attempted to describe the special mentality of the worker in a large, bureaucratic setting
  • The Beat Generation
    Authors who criticized middle-class values and conformity in the 1950s
    • Allen Ginsberg
    • Jack Kerouac
  • Michael Harrington
    Writer of The Other America in 1962
  • Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka
    1954 Supreme Court case resulting in a ruling that refuted the Plessy v. Ferguson ruling, ruled that blacks could not be segregated