This German city was cut off from supply lines by the Soviet Union, necessitating almost a year of allied air-lift relief.
What is Berlin?
100
Sprawling residential areas just outside cities.
What are suburbs?
100
These two doctors developed vaccines for polio.
Who are Salk and Sabin?
100
When soldiers returned from the war, they began having lots of them.
What are babies?
200
The CIA's first attempt to overthrow a government took place in this country.
What is Iran?
200
The effort by conservative groups to brand people as Communists and keep them from getting jobs.
What is blacklisting?
200
This couple was sentenced to death for giving nuclear bomb secrets to the Soviet Union.
Who are the Rosenbergs?
200
People who wanted to see the latest Clark Gable film with more privacy than the traditional theater would go there.
What is the drive-in theater.
300
After the Soviet Union aggressively installed Communist governments into Eastern Europe following WWII, the U.S., Western Europe, and Canada formed this alliance to counter the Cold War threat.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
300
The term for when a country declares that resources, like oil, belong to it, and not a foreign company.
What is nationalization?
300
He used intimidation and unfounded accusations to find and destroy Communists in our country.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
300
Children in school were shown a film in which Bert the turtle instructed them to do this if a nuclear bomb attack occurred.
What is duck and cover?
400
This tense event had the U.S. and Soviet Union pointing nuclear missiles at one another in October of 1962.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
400
The name of the policy developed by Eisenhower in which if the Soviets attacked any nation, the Unites States would respond with a nuclear attack.
What is massive retaliation?
400
The American Commander in the Korean War who was fired by President Truman for demanding permission to attack China, with nuclear weapons if necessary.
Who was Gen. Douglas MacArthur?
400
In every year of the 1950s, 1 in 5 Americans did this.
What is move to a new residence?
500
The Korean War ended in 1953 when peace talks were initiated by this president.
Who is President Eisenhower?
500
Businesses that have holdings in several unrelated industries.
What are conglomerates?
500
This president desegregated the military.
Who is President Harry Truman?
500
The group of American counter-culture writers of the 1950s.