I like Ike
Who was Ike?
Who was Dwight D Eisenhower
Ike created this new cabinet position that focus on social Issues.
What was the Department on Health Education and Welfare.
Ike could do nothing as the USSR invaded this country and replaced it's democratically elected government with one that it would control?
What was Hungary?
Massive Retaliation led to these drills being held in public and private schools.
What were "duck and cover" drills?
This invention led to an explosion in the advertising industry
What was television (TV)?
Ike's Vice President
Who was Richard Nixon?
This legislation put America on the map . . . so to speak.
What was the Interstate Highway Act (1956)
Another term for a bomb shelter based on the fact that radiation from a nuclear bomb could come from the sky and kill you.
What were fallout shelters?
Relations with the USSR were hurt when this of plane was shot down over the Soviet Union.
What was a U-2 spy plane?
If you didn't attend this, Americans may suspect you were a communist.
Ike promised to end fighting in this war.
What was the Korean War?
Unfortunately, the Interstate Highway Act greatly hurt this industry . . . (remember Vander . . . . bilt it)
What were the railroads
Who was Nikita Khrushchev?
The arms race became the space race when this was put into orbit by the Soviet Union?
What was "Sputnik"?
This group rebelled against the social norms of the 1950s.
Who were the "beatniks"?
Ike had to deal with this generation that grew up mainly during the 1950s
What was the Baby Boom generation?
Ike's administration created this bill after Sputnik flew threw the heavens.
What was the National Defense Education Act?
The Eisenhower Doctrine was focused mainly protect on this part of the world from communism . . . . and high gas prices?
What was the Middle East?
Ike was worried that this would run the US and bring us to the brink of war with all it's weapons.
What was the military industrial complex?
What made an analogy between the Red Scare and the Salem Witch Trials?
What was The Crucible?
Ike's Secretary of State who was more forceful on communism.
Who was John Foster Dulles?
This foreign policy caused thousands of Americans to build bomb shelters in the back yard.
What was "massive retaliation"?
In 1960, Eisenhower became the first to deal with this group that was basically an international oil monopoly.
What was OPEC - the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
This nation became communist in 1959 . . . just 90 miles from America.
What was Cuba?
What were the 1920s (Roaring 20s)?