“Deal or No Deal (1945 Edition)”
This president proposed the Fair Deal after World War II.
→ Who is Harry S. Truman?
This program investigated loyalty among federal employees.
→ What is the Loyalty-Security Program?
This law provided benefits such as education and housing loans to veterans.
→ What is the GI Bill?
This type of community grew rapidly outside cities after WWII.
→ What are suburbs?
This technology became the dominant form of entertainment in the 1950s.
→ What is television?
This 1954 Supreme Court case ended legal school segregation.
→ What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This document is the supreme law of the United States.
→ What is the Constitution?
This program expanded Social Security coverage and increased benefits.
→ What is the Fair Deal?
This congressional committee targeted suspected communists.
→ What is HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee)?
This economic trend saw a rapid increase in births after WWII.
→ What is the baby boom?
This developer built mass-produced suburban homes.
→ Who is William Levitt?
This cultural movement emphasized conformity and traditional gender roles.
→ What is domesticity (cult of domesticity)?
This protest involved African Americans refusing to ride city buses.
→ What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
This famous American landmark was a gift from France in 1886.
→ What is the Statue of Liberty?
his act raised the federal minimum wage in 1949.
→ What is the Fair Labor Standards Act amendment?
This senator led aggressive anti-communist investigations in the 1950s.
→ Who is Joseph McCarthy?
This system of mass production and consumption defined postwar prosperity.
→ What is consumer capitalism?
This famous suburban development became a model for postwar housing.
→ What is Levittown?
This group of writers rejected conformity and embraced counterculture ideas.
DAILY DOUBLE
→ What is the Beat Generation?
This leader became prominent during the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
→ Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This amendment guarantees freedom of speech.
→ What is the First Amendment?
This performer’s rise to fame in the 1950s—along with his controversial dance style and fusion of musical genres—made him a symbol of youth rebellion and helped popularize rock and roll.
→ Who is Elvis Presley?
Truman’s failed proposal aimed to create this national healthcare system.
→ What is national health insurance?
This document called for a major military buildup to contain communism.
→ What is NSC-68?
This term refers to the expanding group with stable income and home ownership.
→ What is the middle class?
This federal policy made suburban homeownership more accessible.
→ What are FHA/VA loans?
This term describes the pressure to fit into mainstream society.
→ What is conformity?
This 1957 event required federal troops to enforce school integration.
→ What is Little Rock Crisis (Little Rock Nine)?
In Back to the Future, this is the speed the DeLorean must reach to activate time travel.
→ What is 88 miles per hour?
This coalition blocked many Fair Deal reforms in Congress.
→ What is the conservative coalition (Republicans + Southern Democrats)?
This term describes the fear-driven hunt for communists in American society.
→ What is the Red Scare?
This government spending program helped fuel economic growth during the Cold War.
→ What is defense spending (military-industrial complex)?
This discriminatory practice denied loans to minority neighborhoods.
→ What is redlining?
This book criticized the limited roles of women in suburban life.
→ What is The Feminine Mystique?
This civil rights organization used legal challenges to fight segregation.
→ What is the NAACP?
In Barbie, the film explores this major theme involving gender roles, identity, and societal expectations.
→ What is feminism (or questioning traditional gender roles)?