Cold War Basics
This rivalry between two superpowers after WWII never became an all‑out war but led to an arms race and proxy wars. (Answer: What is the Cold War between the United States and the ________?)
What is the Soviet Union? (full: the Cold War was the rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union)
Federal law that helped veterans get loans and education
What is the GI Bill of Rights?
The U.S. entered Korea and Vietnam to stop the spread of what?
What is communism?
Company that created Betty Crocker
What is General Mills?
One piece of evidence supporting that neighborhoods changed — fact 1 (loans and homes and what did it do for the growth of the suburbs)
GI Bill enabled veterans to buy homes → drove demand for housing and suburbs.
Year the Soviet Union first tested an atomic bomb
What is 1949?
Builder of mass‑produced identical low‑cost houses
Who is Orrin Thompson?
Years of the Vietnam War (as given in the chapter)
What are 1954–1975? (note: major U.S. troop escalation began in the 1960s)
Convenience product from General Mills that changed baking
What are cake mixes (or Bisquick)?
Second piece of evidence — fact 2 ( who helped build the 'burbs? How did the growth happen?)
What is Orrin Thompson's mass‑built suburbs (identical, low‑cost houses) that expanded suburbs rapidly?
Define "superpower"
What is a country with very great political and military power that can influence other nations?
Restrictive covenants blocked people of certain ______ or ______
What are races and religions (or ethnic/religious groups)?
Name one Minnesotan from the chapter and role (example)
Who is Jim Northrup, an Ojibwe Marine? (Other acceptable: Who is Mary Lu Ostergren Brunner, an army nurse? Or Khao Insixienymay, Lao commander who later immigrated to Minnesota?)
Why Betty Crocker appealed to homemakers after WWII
What is because she provided easy, time‑saving recipes, reassurance, and a domestic ideal that fit busy postwar families?
Third piece of evidence — fact 3 (discrimination in housing)
What is restrictive covenants that prevented certain racial/ethnic/religious groups from buying homes?
One way the Cold War affected daily life (civil defense/homes)
What is building fallout shelters / civil defense preparations?
Two problems cities faced as people moved to suburbs
What are downtown decline (loss of businesses/tax base) and run‑down neighborhoods / decreased city revenues for repairs and upkeep?
Major 1973 event that changed U.S. involvement in Vietnam
What is the U.S. signing a cease‑fire (1973) that led to removal of most U.S. forces?
Two Cold War inspired consumer/civil defense items from the chapter
What are fallout shelters and survival supplies? (Also acceptable: toy submarine kits, electric kitchen appliances)
One‑sentence explanation linking the GI Bill to neighborhood change (In a complete sentence)
What is: The GI Bill made home loans and education affordable for veterans, increasing demand for houses and fueling suburban growth?
Why the Cold War is different from a "hot" war (two differences)
What is that the Cold War involved indirect conflict (proxy wars), an arms race, and political rivalry rather than direct full-scale fighting between the two superpowers (unlike WWII)?
Role/purpose of the Metropolitan Council (created 1967)
What is a regional planning body that studies land use and plans regional parks, public transportation, and growth for the Twin Cities (Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott, Washington Counties)?
Vietnam & Korea
Sequence for end of the Vietnam War (cease‑fire and fall of Saigon)
What is the cease‑fire in 1973 and Saigon fell in 1975?
How General Mills' marketing (Betty Crocker) responded to postwar changes (two effects)
What is that General Mills promoted time‑saving convenience foods (cake mixes, Bisquick) and used photograph‑rich cookbooks to teach modern cooking, reinforcing the domestic ideal and making home cooking faster and more appealing?
Three‑sentence evidence paragraph (model answer)
After World War II, the GI Bill helped veterans secure loans and buy homes, which increased demand for housing and encouraged suburban growth. Builders like Orrin Thompson met that demand by mass‑producing identical, low‑cost houses outside cities, causing many families to move to suburbs. At the same time, downtowns lost businesses and tax revenue while restrictive covenants kept many neighborhoods segregated, all together dramatically changing urban and suburban neighborhoods.