Coming Home After War II
Soviets & Space
Power & Getting Around
More Wars
Multi-Cultural Washington
100
This federal program provided returning G.I.s with educational and housing opportunities (p 164)
What is the G.I. Bill?
100
The fear of attack by the Soviet Union and the Space Race were two causes of this (p 165)
What was the Cold War?
100
This building was a symbol of the nation's space program at the Seattle World's Fair (p 166)
What is the Space Needle?
100
Many Americans disagreed about involvement in this war (p 173)
What was the Vietnam War?
100
He was the first Chinese-American elected as governor in Washington (p 175)
What is Gary Locke?
200
A popular saying in the 1940s and '50s about Boeing's importance to the local economy (p 164)
What is "When Boeing sneezes, Seattle catches a cold"?
200
This Washington city was the first in the nation to practice a city-wide evacuation drill (p 166)
What is Spokane?
200
Places where many homes are built together outside a city's boundaries (p 165)
What are suburbs?
200
Unemployment soared in this part of the state after the Vietnam War ended (p 173)
What is Puget Sound?
200
Separate seating for blacks and whites in theaters or restaurants is an example of this (p 174)
What is segregation?
300
When a government limits food or other products so more people have a chance to buy (p 164)
What is rationing?
300
The world's first satellite, launched by the Soviets, was named this (p 165)
What was Sputnik?
300
This project in Eastern Washington produced electricity, reservoirs, and provided irrigation for farming (p 169)
What is the Columbia Basin project?
300
This war ended in a stalemate in 1953 (p 162, 172)
What was the Korean War?
300
The first black attorney in Spokane, he filed lawsuits for black customers who were denied service in restaurants and stores (p 175)
Who was Carl Maxey?
400
The post-war Moses Lake program to prepare a farm for a deserving veteran (p 170)
What was the "Farm in a Day" program?
400
The name of a Richland high school sports team during the Cold War (p 165)
Who were the Bombers?
400
President Eisenhower believed construction of this would help with evacuating cities in case of war (p 167)
What is the interstate freeway system?
400
This Korean War soldier survived a battle by using a shovel to fight off enemy soldiers (p 172)
Who was Gerald Foley?
400
What minority group is the largest in the state? (p 176)
What is the Hispanic population?
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