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100
This leader of Cuba grew closer to the Soviet Union after the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who is Fidel Castro?
100
This policy stated that the United States wanted to prevent the spread of communism.
What is containment?
100
It was feared that this new style of music would turn teenagers into delinquents.
What is rock 'n' roll?
100
This was built by the Soviet Union to keep their people from getting to the democratic side of a city in Germany.
What is the Berlin Wall?
100
This term refers to the massive increase in births in the United States in the early 1950s.
What is the baby boom?
200
This organization was created by JFK to bring young American volunteers to help in developing countries.
What is the Peace Corps?
200
Superpowers used this strategy to force the other side to back down by going to the edge of war.
What is brinkmanship?
200
By the end of the 1950s almost every family had one of these entertainment devices in their homes.
What is a television?
200
This is the name of the CIA led invasion of Cuba.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
200
This term was used to describe the separation of nations between democracies in Western Europe and communist nations in Eastern Europe.
What is the iron curtain?
300
Kennedy wanted America to accomplish this goal before 1970.
What is put a man on the moon?
300
When the Soviet Union blocked Berlin in 1948, this mission was ordered by President Truman to bring them aid.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
300
What was the main purpose of the House on Un-American Activities Committee?
What is to investigate suspected communists.
300
Many World War II veterans were able to obtain job training and university educations because of this government program.
What is the GI Bill?
400
In 1950, this man declared that he had a list of 205 names of members of the U.S. State Department that were communist.
Who is Senator Joseph McCarthy?
400
This stated that the United States would give assistance to any forces resisting communist forces in their country.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
400
Houses in this community were built cheaply and side by side, were identical in structure, had a green lawn, and came with a white picket fence.
What is Levittown?
400
The Cuban Missile Crisis was resolved when the Soviet Union removed its missiles from Cuba in exchange for the US removing its missiles from this country.
What is Turkey?
400
The name of the group that investigated the JFK assassination and deemed that the assassin acted alone.
What is the Warren Commission?
500
This popular president was in office right before JFK. He was president during the nations economic recovery after WWII.
Who is Dwight Eisenhower?
500
This was an alliance centered around the Soviet Union and its satellite nations.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
500
List at least three criticism of suburban life in the 1950s.
What is “suburbs create a culture of conformity” What is suburbs are a wasteland of conformity and materialism? What is “suburbs are filled with bland people in bland houses living bland lives?"
500
The red phone that connected Moscow with the White House was known as this.
What is the hot line?
500
This is the term used to describe when businesses create the desire to own something a little newer and a little better before buying the product is really necessary.
What is planned obsolescence?
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