Progress
Popular Culture
Eisenhower
Review
Vocab
100
This is a soldier that fought in a war
What is a veteran?
100
This is a person who buys and uses products
What is a consumer?
100
To help poor people, Eisenhower did this
What is public housing for poor city neighborhoods?
100
This was the policy to stop the spread of communism in the Cold War
What is containment?
100
A community on the edge of a city
What is a suburb?
200
This bill helped soldiers returning from WWII get unemployment, special loans, and money for college.
What is the GI Bill of Rights?
200
By 1960, most Americans had this in their home
What is a TV?
200
This was created under Eisenhower and allowed people to drive across the country without stopping for traffic lights
What is the interstate highway system?
200
This began during the Cold War and is still going on today
What is the Korean War?
200
A large increase in births after WWII
What is baby boom?
300
This happened to the US economy after WWII
What is government, business, and the American people spent lots of money. The economy grew.
300
This is why companies spent so much money on TV ads.
What is they can reach larger audiences than ever before?
300
He was President during this war
What is the Korean War?
300
He was a brutal leader of the Soviet Union and killed almost 10 million of his own people
Who was Stalin?
300
use of machines to do jobs once done by people
What is automation?
400
This was one change in the way people worked.
What is machines made good faster, people worked fewer hours.
400
This group started rock n' roll
What are African Americans - Rhythm and blues
400
As a soldier, Eisenhower did this
He led the Allied forces in Europe during WWII
400
This event almost sparked WWIII
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
400
A large difference in taste and values between young people and their parents
What is generation gap?
500
This disease was treated in the 1950s and a vaccine was discovered
What is Polio?
500
He wrote songs about the problems of young people and was a famous African American rock n' roll singer
Who is Chuck Berry?
500
This act provided $31 to build roads
What is the Federal Aid Highway Act?
500
This doctrine promised help to countries facing a Communist takeover
What is the Truman Doctrine?
500
a period when the economy slows down
What is recession?
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