Chapter 27 - America at Mid-Century 1952-1963

Federal Government

The ________ played a decisive role in supporting programs during the Eisenhower years that helped millions of Americans gain middle- class status.

Chrushchev

In the summer of 1962 ________ reacted with sophisticated weapons to Cuba, including nuclear weapons intermediate range that could hit the Midwest and Washington.

TV

________ was a radical transformation from radio and it developed more quickly and less chaotically as a mass media.

CBS

NBC, ________ and ABC were the three main broadcasting networks directly from radio companies.

behavior of individuals

The media were all- powerful themselves, able to manipulate the attitudes and ________ in the masses.

1950s

The US economic rule of Cuba, starting with the Spanish- American war, continued through the ________.

Cuban Revolution

The 1959 ________ that spanned Latin America- inspiring the left and alarming the right- was the direct impetus for the Alliance for Progress.

John F Kennedy

________, the president of Truman's administration, promised to revive a liberal internal agenda.

American trade union

By the mid- 1950s, the ________ achieved a historic peak in its penetration of the labor market, reflecting enormous gains in organization drives during the New and the Second World War in the core mass production industries.

second world war

During the ________ he supported covert operations with enthusiasm and during its term as president he was a secret partisan of CIA- sponsored paramilitary operations.

death of Joseph Stalin

The ________ in 1953 brought an internal power struggle in the Soviet Union only two months after the inauguration of Eisenhower.