An institution that helped rebuild war-battered Asia and Europe.
What is The World Bank
100
In the years after WWI, the US saw an increase in suburbanization due to a __________ that resulted from veterans returning home to their wives.
What is Baby Boom
100
A group of prominent film directors and screenwriters who refused to say whether they were members of the communist party and were convicted of contempt and sent to prison
What is The Hollywood Ten
100
The age of Joy's cat
What is 16 years
200
The agreement that closed trading blocks and expanded international trade.
What is the General Agreement of Tariffs and Trade
200
A competition between the US and the Soviet Union by means short of armed conflicts which resulted in a nuclear arms race
What is The Cold War
200
The first African-American major league baseball player
Who is Jackie Robinson
200
A group of southern segregationalists who opposed Truman's support of Civil Rights and formed the State Right's Party.
What is Dixicrats
200
The African American Woman who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man
Who is Rosa Parks
300
An administration that sought to control inflation and pressure on prices.
What is The Office of Price Administration
300
An American diplomat who wired a telegram to the State Department describing Soviet expansion as inevitable
Who is George F. Kennan
300
A pro-business act that outlawed the "closed shop", the "union shop", and secondary boycotts that was passed in 1947 after Congress overrode Truman's veto
What is The Taft-Hartley Act
300
An act passed in 1956 that provided twenty-six billion dollars to build interstate highways, linking the United States' major cities.
What is The Interstate Highway Act
300
Jake Bearer's middle name
What is Michael
400
An Act that committed the Federal Government to ensuring economic growth and established the Council of Economic Advisers.
What is The Employment Act of 1946
400
A doctrine that united military, economic, and diplomatic strategies to prevent communism from spreading and to enhance America's security and influence abroad
What is Containment Policy
400
A 'Rock n Roll' icon famous for his music and gyration of his pelvis
Who is Elvis Presley
400
An Act that provided benefits to returning veterans of World War II in the form of low mortgages, low interest loans, and paid tuition to colleges.
What is the GI Bill of Rights
400
Patience Timi's favorite sport
What is volleyball
500
An agenda proposed by Truman that included the following measures: Raising the minimum wage, increasing social security benefits and coverage, and expansion of appropriations for public power
What is the Fair Deal
500
An agency created in 1947 from the National Security Act that employed spies to gather information from foreign governments
What is The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
500
A supreme court case that ruled that segregation in interstate buses was unconstitutional
What is Morgan vs Virginia
500
A program that barred members of the Communist Party and anyone guilty of "sympathetic association".