1950s Culture
1950s Domestic Policy
Cuban Missile Crisis
McCarthyism
Cold War General
100
This was a major spike in births that occurred at the end of WW II.
What is the baby boom?
100
This was dubbed the "magic carpet to the middle class."
What is the GI Bill?
100
This man was the leader of Cuba during the crisis.
Who is Fidel Castro?
100
Joseph McCarthy pursued alleged Communists through this Committee.
What is the House UnAmerican Activities Committee?
100
This program gave US support to rebuild European economies.
What is the Marshall Plan?
200
This group rejected the rules of 1950s society and encouraged individualism.
Who are the Beats/Beatniks?
200
The GI Bill was signed into law by FDR in this year.
What is 1944?
200
The standoff between the US and the Soviet Union lasted for this many days.
What is 13?
200
This was a group of writers, actors, and directors who
What is the Blacklist?
200
This policy focused on preventing the spread of Communism.
What is containment?
300
This was the most popular television series of the 1950s.
What is "I Love Lucy"?
300
This town was the idealized suburb. There, they could build a house in only one day.
What is Levittown?
300
This was the failed invasion of Cuba in 1961.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
300
This man was a high ranking official in the State Department who was imprisoned for five years for perjury.
Who is Alger Hiss?
300
North and South Korea were divided along this line.
What is the 38th parallel?
400
This term described whites leaving urban areas and moving to the suburbs.
What is "white flight."
400
This 1956 law provided funding for over 41,000 miles of road.
What is the Interstate Highway Act?
400
As a result of the crisis, both the US and Soviet Union signed this in 1963.
What is the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty?
400
This couple was convicted and executed for being Soviet spies. (FIRST AND LAST NAMES)
Who are Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?
400
This World War II general commanded US forces in Korea.
Who is MacArthur?
500
This man revolutionized parenting and encouraged parents to trust their instincts.
Who is Dr. Benjamin Spock?
500
This documentary explained the first African American family moving into Levittown.
What is "Crisis in Levittown"?
500
This was the biggest export of Cuba.
What is sugar?
500
This man wrote Spartacus and was on the Blacklist preventing him from earning an Oscar for his film?
Who is Dalton Trumbo?
500
This man was the leader of Communist China during the Korean War.
Who is Mao Zedong?
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