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allen ginsberg
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one of the "beats"; wrote a dark bitter poem called "howl"
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"beats"
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a group of young poets, writers, and artists who wrote harsh critiques of what they considered the sterility and conformity of american life, the meaninglessness of american politics, and the banality of popular culture; visible evidence of a widespread restlessness
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brinksmanship
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john foster dulles' inclination for tense confrontations; included pushing the soviet union to the brink of war in order to exact concessions
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brown v. board of education of topeka
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may 17, 1954; rejected the 1896 plessy v. ferguson; said that the "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal"; set no timetable
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dien bien phu
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disastrous siege in north vietnam when french troops became surrounded; only american intervention could prevent the total collapse of the french military effort
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echo park
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spectacular valley in the dinosaur national monument; was proposed to build a dam through it but opposition arose and congress bowed to public pressure
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elvis presley
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greatest early rock star; became a symbol of youthful determination to push at the borders of the conventional and acceptable; openly sexual; drew heavily from black rhythm and blues traditions
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fidel castro
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leader of a popular movement in cuba of resistance to the batista regime; began implementing radical policies of land reform; began accepting assistance from the soviet union
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j.d. salinger
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author of the catcher and the rye; expressed misgivings about the impersonality of modern society
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jackie robinson
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first african american to play major league baseball
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jack kerouac
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produced the bible of much of the beat generation in his novel on the road that depicted the rootless, iconoclastic lifestyle of him and his friends
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john foster dulles
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eisenhower's secretary of state; had a stern moral revulsion to communism; thought truman's containment had been too passive and the us should pursue an active program of liberation; invented a policy of massive retaliation
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jonas salk
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american scientist who introduced an effective vaccine against polio; virtually eliminated polio
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levittown
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large housing development on long island of large housing developments with similar style inexpensive houses
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martin luther king jr.
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leader of the civil rights movement; approach based on the doctrine of nonviolence
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massive retaliation
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most prominent of dulles's innovations; would respond to communist threats to its allies by relying on "the deterrent of massive retaliatory power"; economics was the force behind it
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michael harrington
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author of the other america, which chronicled the continuing existence of poverty in america
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rosa parks
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arrested in montgomery when she refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger; active civil rights leader in the community; decided spontaneously; symbol of the movement
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sputnik
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earth-orbiting satellite launched by the soviet union in 1957
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univac
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first significant computer of the 1950s; developed initially for the us bureau of the census by the remington rand company; could handle both alphabetical and numerical info easily
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william h. whyte jr.
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author of the organization man, which attempted to describe the special mentality of the worker in a large, bureaucratic setting
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william levitt
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used new mass-production techniques to construct a large housing development on long island
