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Political: 1. Oveta Culp Hobby: first woman in a republican cabinet 2. Eisenhower and Nixon reelected in the election of 1956 3. Eisenhower, as a moderate on domestic issues, accepted most of the New Deal programs as a reality of modern life and even extended some of them. 4. The election of 1952 was won by Eisenhower with richard Nixon as his running mate 5. Dulles Diplomacy = advocated palcing greater reliance on nuclear weapons and air power and spending less on conventional forces of the army and navy. Economic: 1. Social Security extended to 10 million citizens, minimum wage raised, additional public housing built 2. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) 3. After the Russians launched Sputnik, The US pour millions into the science programs in schoolsThe 4.During the Montgomery Bus Boycott, bus lines lost much of thier income 5.Advertisement became huge on all networks. Geographic: 1. Highway Act (1956) : authorized 42000 miles of interstate highway linking all major cities in the nation 2. Vietnam divided at the 17th parallel, North Vietnam being communist and South Vietnam largely anticommunist. 3. Korea would reamin divided near the 38th parallel as communist North Korea and a democratic South. 4. Soviet tanks crushed freedom fighters in Hungary after etalks about pulling out of the Warsaw PAct 5.Disneyland in Florida was opened in 1955. Social: 1. Jackie Robinson breaks the color line in 1947 b being hired by the Brooklyn Dodgers as the first African American to play on a major league team 2. Truman integrates the armed forces in 1948 and introduces the civil rights legislation in Congress 3. Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka supreme court case overturns Plessy vs. Ferguson: Chief Justice Earl Warren (bad ass) ruled 1) separate facilities are inherently unequal and 2) segregation in schools should end with "all deliberate speed" 4. Arrest of Rosa Parks for violating the segregation law sparked a massive African American protest in Montgomery in the form of a boycott against riding the city busses 5. Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. emerged as the inspiring leader of a nonviolent movement to achieve integration
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Chronology: 1. 1952 New USA president Dwight Eisenhower elected. 2. 1953 McCarthy witch hunt hearings took place in USA. 3. 1954 US segregation made illegal 4. 1957 Sputnik 1 the first satellite to orbit the earth launched into space by the Russians. The space age becomes a reality. 5. 1958 NASA Founded.

Mnemonic:
 * E**isenhower serves two terms as a fairly moderate republican president


 * I**nterstate highway system created by Eisenhower: authorized construction of 42000 mi of interstate highways linking all the nation's major cities


 * S**putnik satellites launched by Soviet Union-causing the technological leadership of the US into quesiton. US freaks out and steps it up with NASA and kicking the science and math programs at school into gear (AKA that's why we have to learn stuff past long division unlike our grandparents. Thanks Russia, I freaking love being made to take calculus...)


 * E**lection of 1956 gives presidential victory to Eisenhower for a second term, but Democrats retained control of both houses of Congress


 * N**onviolent protests for civil rights led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.


 * H**ungarian revolt was crushed by Soviet tanks

OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) formed in 1960 between the Arab nations of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Iran, Venezuela


 * W**hen the Russians launched Sputnik, US technological leadership was questioned


 * E**isenhower's farewell address spoke out against the negative impact of the Cold War on US society


 * R**ichard Nixon chosen as Eisenhower's runningmate ||