Cold War
This man was the president before Eisenhower.
Who is Harry Truman?
This was the name of Eisenhower's foreign policy.
What is containment?
This everyday appliance changed the way Americans viewed President Kennedy (literally).
What is the Television?
Lyndon Johnson became president after the assassination of this man.
Who is John F Kennedy?
This famous celebrity of the 50s and 60s was censored from television due to his dance moves.
This was the first real conflict of the Cold war, ending in a stalemate in Asia.
What is the Korean War?
Eisenhower built this to improve mobility and connect the nation.
What is the Interstate Highway System?
JFK helped out this famous Civil Rights leader and then became known as activist president.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This was the name of the domestic policy of Lyndon B Johnson.
What is the Great Society?
This Supreme Court case brought a unanimous decision stating that separate was not equal.
What is Brown vs the Board of Education?
This was the military alliance (1949) made between western nations to prevent and protect against communist aggression.
What is NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)?
This group from Arkansas forced Eisenhower to face the school segregation issue.
What is the Little Rock 9?
JFK started this in 1961 to send young American volunteers to help developing nations.
What is the Peace Corp?
These two health care programs were started in the Great Society; one for older people and one for those on welfare.
What are medicare and medicaid?
This amendment was passed concerning succession of the presidency following JFK's assassination.
What is the 25th?
This time was characterized by fear of communism within the politicians and celebrities of the US and was run by a Senator after which it is named.
What is the McCarthyism?
The GI Bill (Servicemen’s Readjustment Act) helped soldiers by providing them two things. Name one.
Double points to name both
What is a free education?
-or-
What is a home loan?
This incident involved nuclear warheads in a Latin American country.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This is the name of the Act that created Head Start and other youth training programs.
What is the Economic Opportunity Act?
This is the name of the phenomenon where those who could afford to leave the city for the suburbs in the 50s and 60s, left.
What is white flight?
This conference created international laws meant to protect soldiers and civilians in wartime.
What is the Geneva Convention?
One of these did not happen during the Eisenhower presidency:
Bay of Pigs, Iran Coup, Sputnik launch or Korean war
What is the Bay of Pigs?
In the space race, JFK made a commitment to do this in 1961 and it was actually happened in 1969.
What is landing a man on the moon?
This was the name of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in the 60s that said prayer in school was unconstitutional and gave us Miranda rights.
Who is Chief Justice Warren?
This is the name for the anti-materialist, artistic, social movement that rejected mainstream 1950s culture?
What are the beatniks?