Suburbia & The 1950s Home Front
What was the name of the famous post-WWII community made up of thousands of affordable, mass-produced houses?
Levittown
What was the name of President Truman's plan to give money and economic aid to countries fighting against a communist takeover?
The Truman Doctrine
Who was the famous American general who led the surprise attack at Inchon to push North Korean troops out of South Korea?
General Douglas MacArthur
What was the name of the very first man-made satellite launched into space by the Soviet Union in 1957?
Sputnik
This landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision completely overturned Plessy v. Ferguson by declaring that "separate but equal" facilities are unconstitutional.
Brown v. Board of Education
What famous law helped veterans after World War II by giving them money for college and cheap loans to buy suburban homes?
GI Bill of Rights
The Truman Doctrine was part of what larger American foreign policy that aimed to stop communism from spreading to new countries?
Containment
What worldwide organization supported the fight in Korea, proving that sometimes military force is needed instead of just trade punishments?
The United Nations
To help people around the world, President Kennedy created what famous program that sends American volunteers to help developing nations?
The Peace Corps
President Lyndon B. Johnson's "Great Society" laws were created to solve what two huge problems in America?
Poverty and Civil Rights
What is the term for when many white families and businesses left the big cities to move to the newer suburbs?
White Flight
What was the name of the massive U.S. plan that gave billions of dollars to help European nations rebuild their economies after World War II?
The Marshall Plan
What do we call the dangerous Cold War policy where the U.S. was willing to go to the very edge of a full nuclear war to stop enemy aggression?
Brinkmanship
What was a major similarity between the First Red Scare in the 1920s and the Second Red Scare in the 1950s?
The fear of communism spreading
This 1964 legislative program under the Great Society umbrella officially created the Job Corps, VISTA, and Project Head Start.
What is the Economic Opportunity Act?
What major 20th-century movement of African Americans moving north was hurt in the 1950s because they were often left out of suburban opportunities?
The Great Migration
How did the U.S. and its allies get food and supplies to the people of West Berlin after the Soviet Union blocked all roads into the city?
Berlin Airlift
According to military maps, American troops dangerously nearing this geographical border prompted China to directly enter the Korean War.
Yalu River
What was the name of the special group in Congress that held famous, public meetings to find and expose communist citizens in America?
The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
What is the name of the Supreme Court era that protected the rights of people accused of crimes in cases like Miranda v. Arizona?
What is the Warren Court?
What were two financial reasons that made it much easier for regular Americans to buy a house after World War II?
Low interest rates and government-backed mortgages
What were the names of the two opposing military alliances formed during the Cold War where member countries promised to defend each other from outside threats?
NATO and the Warsaw Pact
How did the Korean War end in 1953, according to the map borders?
Korea remained a divided nation; North/South Korea
What part of American daily life faced the most blame and criticism for being weak after the Soviets beat the U.S. into space?
The American educational system
This 1963 civil rights campaign proved highly effective because the local police department's violent reaction captured national media attention, swinging public sympathy toward the activists.
The March on Birmingham