After reading Chapter 27, you should be able to identify and explain the historical significance of each of the following:

"dynamic conservatism" or "modern Republicanism"

Interstate Highway Act, 1956

Adlai Stevenson

"new conservatives" or radical right

Earl Warren

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 1954

Orval E. Faubus and the Little Rock desegregation fight

Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960

John Foster Dulles and "brinksmanship"

"peaceful coexistence" and the "spirit of Geneva"

Third World

Allen Dulles, the Central Intelligence Agency, and covert action

Ho Chi Minh, the Vietminh, and the National Liberation Front

the "domino theory" in Asia

Ngo Dinh Diem

Gamal Abdel Nasser

Eisenhower Doctrine

military-industrial complex

Mark I, ENIAC, and Silicon Valley

Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

Sun Belt

baby boom generation

Michael Harrington, The Other America

Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Montgomery bus boycott

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Native Americans and federal termination and relocation policies

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

National Defense Education Act, 1958

Elvis Presley and rock and roll

the Beats