Key vocabulary under Eisenhower

Eisenhower's policies of being conservative with money and liberal with people.

• SNCC

• Dynamic Conservativsm

• Consumer society

• SEATO

When a political candidate chooses a running mate that will appeal to more evoters.

• McCarthyism

• Platforms

• Blanket the ticket

• Bran Drain

Accusations of Communist views or sympathy.

• Open Skies Policy

• Domino Theory

• McCarthyism

• SNCC

Three bigest motor car companies: General Motors (GM), Ford and Chrysler.

• Sputnik

• Big Three Motor Companies

• Domino theory

• 1963

A society in which buying and selling goods, especially luxury goods, seems to dominate.

• Blanket the ticket

• Consumer society

• Platforms

• Committee on Government Contracts

Allowing nations to openly see each other's territory from the air to monitor military bases.

• Suez Crisis

• Open Skies Policy

• Bran Drain

• Geneva Conference

The first satellite sent to space by the USSR.

• Domino Theory

• Suex Crisis

• Sputnik

• Open Skies Policy

Government funded nuclear shelters for the people of America in case of nuclear attack.

• Suez Crisis

• Balance the ticket

• Bran Drain

• Nuclear Shelter Programme

The emigrstion of highly trained or qualified people from one country to another.

• Balance the ticket

• Open Skies Policy

• Bran Drain

• Platforms

The 1954 conference where it was decided that Vietnam should be split at the 17th parallel.

• Geneva Conference

• Committee on Government Contracts

• Consumer society

• Salisbury Convention