This song highlights what concept in 1950s culture?
Conformity
How does this map relate to the Cold War?
Highways were built to mobilize the military in the event of an invasion.
The mass suburbanization after WWII was fueled by the Baby Boom. What name was given to these developments built quickly to satisfy the need for houses?
Levittown
How were the 1920s and 1950s similar?
Economic boom and growing fear of communism
What are 2 contributing factors to the growth of suburbs in the 1950s?
Introduction of better roadways and interstates.
Baby Boom --> larger houses needed
More reliable cars
GI Bill
What competition did this fuel?
Sputnik; It started the space race.
This phrase was created by Pres. Eisenhower to talk about the economic prosperity of constant war preparation.
Military Industrial Complex
What was the rationale used for US involvement in Asia after WWII?
The Domino Theory
How does this picture show resistance to segregation?
Montgomery residents refusal to use public transportation that is segregated.
What is this image highlighting?
McCarthyism
How did the GI Bill lead to a housing boom after WWII?
GI Bill gaves loans with low interest rates for vetarans to buy bigger houses for their bigger family.
What outcome is this cartoon alluding to?
Brown v. Board
What innovation leads to the growth of this area?
Air Conditioning
This Cold War cartoon illustrates what principle?
Mutually Assured Destruction if either USSR or the US used nuclear weapons.
This family lineage highlights communism in what way?
The Kim family has ruled harshly over North Korea since 1950.
Why did America get involved in the Korean Civil War?
Communism was spreading in the north.
What is the significance of Earl Warren to US legal history?
He was a progressive Supreme Court Chief Justice that extended civil rights and liberties during the 1950s and 1960s.
This graph illustrates what concept?
Arms Race
This picture shows what policy of the United States?
Containment
These posters highlight what fear in America?
Red Scare
Mao Zedong and Kim Il Sung represent what in the late 1940s and 1950s?
Conversion of communism in East Asia.
This map highlights what?
NATO vs. Warsaw
Democracy vs. Communism
The Cold War
This picture highlights what outcome of the Korean War?
The DMZ and the continued tension between North and South Korea along the 38th paralell.
China, Korea & Cuba have what in common during the 1950s?
Communism spread to those countries from Soviet influence.
The arrest of the Rosenbergs represents what fear the US government had?
Spies had infiltrated the US Government