Deck 15: American Zenith 1952-1963

Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Fulton J. Sheen

Answer 1

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Question 2

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Rosa Parks

Answer 2

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Question 3

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Oral Faubus

Answer 3

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Question 4

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​Gamal Abdel Nasser

Question 5

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Elvis Presley

Question 6

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Billy Graham

Question 7

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Richard Nixon

Question 8

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Question 9

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Ho Chi Minh

Question 10

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Jackie Robinson

Question 11

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Josephine Baker

Question 12

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Marilyn Monroe

Question 13

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Adlai Stevenson

Question 14

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Betty Friedan

Question 15

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Dwight Eisenhower

Question 16

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
John Kenneth Galbraith

Question 17

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
John Foster Dulles

Question 18

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Oral Roberts

Question 19

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Earl Warren

Question 20

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
David Riesman

Question 21

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​Robert F. Kennedy

Question 22

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​Arthur Miller

Question 23

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Mohammed Reza Pahlevi

Question 24

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​Lyndon B. Johnson

Question 25

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​Jack Kerouac

Question 26

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​Allen Ginsberg

Question 27

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Fidel Castro

Question 28

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​Andy Warhol

Question 29

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
James Baldwin

Question 30

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
John F. Kennedy

Question 31

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Ralph Ellison

Question 32

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
John Updike

Question 33

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Paul Robeson

Question 34

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Norman Mailer

Question 35

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Saul Bellow

Question 36

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Ngo Dinh Diem

Question 37

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Sylvia Plath

Question 38

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​Jackson Pollock

Question 39

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​Robert S. McNamara

Question 40

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Flannery O'Connor

Question 41

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
An American Dilemma

Question 42

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​rock 'n' roll

Question 43

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Nikita Khrushchev

Question 44

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
white collar/blue collar

Question 45

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Montgomery bus boycott

Question 46

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
The Lonely Crowd

Question 47

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Brown v. Board of Education

Question 48

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
The Feminine Mystique

Question 49

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Playboy magazine

Question 50

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"cult of domesticity"

Question 51

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"massive retaliation"

Question 52

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​policy of boldness

Question 53

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​James Meredith

Question 54

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Checkers speech

Question 55

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"Rocket fever"

Question 56

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
sit-ins

Question 57

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"spirit of Camp David"

Question 58

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Question 59

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Sweatt v. Painter

Question 60

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
The Affluent Society

Question 61

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Federal Highway Act of 1956

Question 62

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​Southern Renaissance

Question 63

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​Berlin Wall

Question 64

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​Peace Corps

Question 65

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​International Style

Question 66

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Landrum-Griffith Act

Question 67

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
National Defense Education Act

Question 68

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​Beat Generation

Question 69

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)

Question 70

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Suez crisis

Question 71

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​New Frontier

Question 72

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​Apollo mission

Question 73

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
U-2 incident

Question 74

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​Cuban missile crisis

Question 75

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

Question 76

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Sputnik

Question 77

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​Bay of Pigs

Question 78

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Dien Bien Phu

Question 79

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​European Economic Community (EEC)

Question 80

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​abstract expressionism