Daily Life
This helped create a shared national experience because millions of people were watching the same programs.
What is a television?
One of the biggest cultural shifts was the rise of _____ music.
What is rock ’n’ roll?
A popular household gadget, derived from military radar technology, that began appearing in kitchens during the 1950s.
What is a microwave?
The person who created a bus seating conflict in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This massive demographic phenomenon began in 1946 and saw a record 3.6 million babies born in the U.S. in 1950 alone.
What is the baby boom?
A circular plastic hip-gyrating toy that became a massive fad in 1958 that was originally intended as an underwater swimming toy and based on a bamboo ring.
What is a hula hoop?
One of the biggest scientific breakthroughs in 1953 by James Watson and Francis Crick, "building" on important research by scientists like Rosalind Franklin.
What is the structure of DNA?
A person who had a great influence on Major League Baseball with the Brooklyn Dodgers
Who is Jackie Robinson?
A shared residential service, where multiple households shared a single local [wire].
What is a Party Line?
A major cultural figure, who was a famous actress and model, starring in popular movies and became a symbol of Hollywood glamour.
Who is Marilyn Monroe?
The first artificial satellite to orbit Earth.
What is Sputnik?
A major turning point in Supreme Court Cases in 1954
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
The form toothpaste took in the first half of the 1950s.
What is tooth powder?
Ray Kroc opened his first franchise in Des Plaines, Illinois, launching the fast-food culture of the decade.
What is McDonalds?
The groundbreaking medical breakthrough announced by Dr. Jonas Salk in 1955 that allowed children to play outside without fear.
What was the Polio vaccine?
This infamous married couple was convicted of passing atomic secrets and executed in 1953.
Who are the Rosenbergs?
Two accessories that were considered absolutely mandatory for women to wear when they went out in public in the early 1950s.
What are hats and gloves?
Before transitioning into a major film phenomenon, this was a classic Saturday morning children's show.
What is Disney?
The name of the first commercially produced electronic computer, used to predict the 1952 US Presidential Election results for the CBS television network.
What is the UNIVAC I (Universal Automatic Computer)?
This 1950s federal agency was established to coordinate civil defense and public preparedness in the event of a Soviet nuclear attack.
What is the Federal Civil Defense Administration?