AMSCO Ch. 27: The Eisenhower Era

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  1. 3. Created in 1948 under U.N. auspices after a civil war in the British mandate territory of Palestine left the land divided.
  2. 5. Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Iran, and Venezuela formed this organization of oil-rich countries in 1960.
  3. 6. Became a "new nation" in 1947 due to the British partitioning India before giving up colonial control.
  4. 7. Civil Rights organizers used this protest tactic to integrate restaurants, hotels, libraries, pools, etc.
  5. 8. A bearded revolutionary who overthrew the Cuban dictator Batista in 1959.
  6. 9. Helped overthrow a government in Iran in 1953 that had tried to nationalize the holding of foreign oil companies.
  7. 11. The new, more liberal leaders of Hungary wanted to pull their country out of this Pact with the Soviet Union.
  8. 13. Dulles' assertion that if the U.S. pushed Communist powers to the brink of war, they would back down because of American nuclear superiority.
  9. 16. Congress created this administration in 1958 to direct U.S. efforts to build missiles and explore outer space.
  10. 18. The collapse of colonial empires after World War II.
  11. 21. 55% of the country "liked Ike" as this President was elected in 1952.
  12. 22. Countries not aligned with the industrialized nations of the West or "Communist" countries in the east were called "Third ______."
  13. 23. French Imperialism had the effect of increasing support for this nationalist and Communist leader in (former) Indochina.
  14. 24. Secretary of State under Eisenhower.
Down
  1. 1. Operation that forced an estimated 3.8 million people to return to Mexico (also a racial slur against Mexican Americans).
  2. 2. By 1961, roughly one in three Americans owned one of these entertainment devices, despite the choice of only three networks.
  3. 4. For most Americans, [this] was a small price to pay or the new affluence of a home in the suburbs, a new automobile every 2-3 years, good schools, and maybe a vacation at newly-opened Disneyland.
  4. 10. Eisenhower called his balanced and moderate approach "modern" this.
  5. 12. Eisenhower beat him for President in both 1952 and 1956.
  6. 13. A group of rebellious writers and intellectuals who advocated spontaneity and rejection of societal standards.
  7. 14. An NAACP lawyer who led the Brown v. Board of Ed. case and later became the first Black justice on the Supreme Court.
  8. 15. Authorized the construction of 42,000 miles of interstate highways linking the nation's major cities.
  9. 17. Diplomacy, the threat of nuclear war, and the death of Stalin in the USSR finally led to an armistice in this country.
  10. 19. Eisenhower's theory that if South Vietnam fell to Communism, one nation after another in Southeast Asia would follow.
  11. 20. The Supreme Court overturned Plessy v. Ferguson by deciding in 1954 that "separate facilities are inherently unequal" in this Kansas school district.