1950s Growth
Which social class grew the most during the 1950s in America?
What is the Middle Class?
Families built these in case of a nuclear attack
What are bomb shelters?
Lots of these were being built by the government in 1956 in order to make travel between states, towns, and cities easier
What are highways? (Freeways or interstates are also acceptable)
Eisenhower was courted by and chose this party to run for president in 1952.
What is the Republican Party?
Other than the economy, the two greatest causes of anxiety in America during the 1950s.
What were Soviet Union (communism) and nuclear war?
What is a new home?
During the "White Flight" these outlying communities is where the whites moved their families to
Suburbs
This economic boom of the 50s raised this, the measure of people's overall wealth
What is standard of living?
Truman's policy of keeping communism in check
What is containment?
the state of political hostility that existed between the Soviet bloc countries and the US-led Western powers from 1945 to 1990
What was the Cold War?
The rise of this after WWII was caused by the slow conversion of wartime industries to peacetime.
What is inflation?
People born from 1946 to 1964 are called this.
What are Baby Boomers?
This type of transportion carried more passengers for longer distances and was perfected in the 1950s
What is air/jet travel?
Foreign policy theory that stated that if one country falls to communism, neighboring countries will eventually fall as well.
What is the domino theory?
In Cuba, heassumed power at the very end of the decade, leading the new government from 1959 onward
Who was Fidel Castro?
These are two things that the G.I. Bill allowed veterans to do.
What are low rate mortgages, education grants (money) to pay for college, and medical care?
Most couples did this right after they graduated high school.
What is marriage?
This is a means of producing goods using mechanical and electronic devices
What is automation?
Nikita Khrushchev succeeded this world leader after his death in 1953.
Who was Joseph Stalin?
What was Sputnik?
The "A" that represents the type of wealthy society that America built after WWII.
What is the AFFLUENT society?
the number of children (on average) per family in the 1950s in the United States
What is 3?
William Levitt mass-produced thousands of these in the suburbs.
What are houses?
dividing line between democratic and communist in Europe after WWII, and who coined the term.
What is the iron curtain and Winston Churchill?
The loss of this country to communism in 1949 created a fear that we were losing the fight to stop the spread of communism.
What is China?