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| Students should be able to identify and explain the importance of the following people, events, and concepts: The Baby Boom AFL-CIO George Meany Teamsters Union David Beck Jimmy Hoffa Louis Pasteur Jules-Francois Joubert Joseph Lister Sulfa drugs Alexander Fleming Penicillin Howard Florey Ernest Chain Edward Jenner Almorth Wright Jonas Salk Albert Sabin DDT Paul Muller David Sarnoff Laboratories Universal Automatic Computer (UNIVAC) Remington Rand Company ENIAC International Business Machines (IBM) Nuclear fusion Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM) Sputnik Explorer I National Aeronautics and Space Administation (NASA) Alan Shepard Yuri Gagarin John Glenn Mercury Program Gemini Program Apollo Program Neil Armstrong Edwin Aldrin Michael Collins Challenger Hubble Space Telescope The Mickey Mouse Club William Levitt Levittown Dr. Benjamin Spock National Broadcasting Company Columbia Broadcasting System American Broadcasting Company "soap operas" Father Knows Best Echo Park Bernard DeVoto David Brower William Whyte The Organization Man David Riesman The Lonely Crowd Saul Bellow J.D. Salinger The "beat" Allen Ginsberg Howl Jack Kerouac On the Road "Juvenile Delinquency" Blackboard Jungle James Dean Rebel Without a Cause Rock 'n' Roll Elvis Presley Sam Phillips B.B. King Buddy Holly Bill Haley Chuck Berry Little Richard Berry Gordy Motown Records American Bandstand Dick Clark "Payola" Scandals Michael Harrington The Other America "Ghettoes" Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka Earl Warren Brown II "massive resistance" White Citizens' Councils Little Rock Central High School Rosa Parks Montgomery Bus Boycott Martin Luther King, Jr. Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Charles Wilson Federal Highway Act of 1956 Adlai Stevenson Joseph McCarthy Robert Stevens Army-McCarthy Hearings John Foster Dulles "massive retaliation" "brinkmanship" Ho Chi Minh Dien Bien Phu Geneva Accords 17th Parallel Ngo Dinh Diem Zionism Mohammed Mossadegh The Shah of Iran Gamal Abdel Nasser Suez Canal Crisis Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán Fulgenico Batista Fidel Castro Nikita Khrushchev Francis Gary Powers U-2 "Military-Industrial Complex" |