The name given to the generation of children born to the families of returning World War II veterans between 1945 and 1960.
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What was the Cold War?
The political and economic confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States that dominated world affairs from 1946 to 1989.
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What does the CIA stand for?
Central Intelligence Agency
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Who was the Nation of Islam founded by?
Elijah Muhammad
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What does NAACP stand for?
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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What did the GI Bill of Rights provide?
Legislation in June 1944 that eased the return of veterans into American society by providing educational and employment benefits.
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What is the Fair Deal?
The name President Harry Truman gave to his policies to continue and extend many of the New Deal's domestic policies.
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What is the Spirit of Geneva?
A perspective fostered by Eisenhower and Khrushchev that the Cold War might, at the least, be limited by their personal engagement with each other.
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What is the Interstate Highway System?
A national system of super highways that Congress approved at the urging of President Eisenhower in 1956 to improve car and truck travel across the United States.
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What is the Brown v. Board Education?
A Supreme Court decision in 1954 declaring that "separate but equal" schools for children of different races violated the Constitution.
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What was the GI Bill of Rights for?
It was for the return of veterans into American society by providing educational and employment benefits.
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What did the "iron curtain" do?
Divided Europe and became one of the central images of the Cold War.
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What is the National Defense Education Act (NDEA)?
Federal aid to improve education, especially science and math education, approved by Congress in 1958.
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How did the Interstate Highway System help?
It was a national system of super highways to improve car and truck travel across the United States.
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What does SCLC stand for?
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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What is the United Nations?
An international organization launched at the end of World War II with leadership from the United States, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, and China.
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Explain what the Marshall Plan is
The European Recovery Program (1949), which provided U.S. economic assistance to European nations in large part to keep them out of the Soviet Union's sphere of influence.
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What was the world's first space satellite that was launched by the Soviet Union in 1957 called?
Sputnik
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What was the Nation of Islam?
A religious and political organization that mixed Muslim religious teachings with a campaign for African-American separatism, pride, and self-determination.
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What is the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Black civil rights organization founded in 1960 that drew heavily on younger activists and college students.
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At the end of World War II, what did the Americans embrace?
They embraced a new image of domestic bliss in a suburban home filled with children.
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Who became president in April 1945?
Harry Truman
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Who created massive retaliation?
Eisenhower
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Who was Billy Graham?
Nations best known religious leader
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What was the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party created for?
to challenge the official all-white Mississippi delegation.