Important People
1950's Politics
McCarthyism & Communism
Abundance & Poverty
Miscellany
100
Winner of the Presidential election of 1952.
Who was Dwight D. Eisenhower?
100
U. S. policy of containing Communism through economic, military, and diplomatic/political means.
What is the 'Truman Doctrine?'
100
Executed couple found guilty of selling nuclear secrets to the USSR.
Who were the Rosenbergs?
100
Massive rise in postwar births.
What is the 'baby boom?'
100
Military theory that explains why nuclear weapons have prevented WWIII.
What is 'Mutually Assured Destruction?'
200
Took over the Soviet Union after the death of Josef Stalin.
Who was Nikita Khrushchev?
200
U. S. diplomatic policy to aid postwar Europe economically.
What is the 'Marshall Plan?'
200
This was the congressional committee whose mission was to find and remove Communists from the public and private spheres.
What was the House Committee on Un-American Activities (House Un-American Committee - HUAC)?
200
The 1950's saw the formation of these new kind of housing neighborhoods outside of urban centers.
What are suburbs?
200
The 'Suez Crisis' occurred in this country.
What is Egypt?
300
President of Egypt who started the pan-Arabism movement.
Who was Gamal Abdel Nasser?
300
Congressional Act that outlawed 'closed-shops' and allowed for 'Right-to-work' laws limiting the power of unions.
What is the Taft-Hartley Act?
300
This was the location of the first of America's 'proxy' wars with the Soviet Union.
What was the Korean war?
300
This American region saw little of the prosperity experienced by much of the United States.
What is Appalachia?
300
Eisenhower's political philosophy mixing progressivism and conservatism.
What is 'dynamic conservatism?'
400
American diplomat who famously wrote the 'Long Telegram.'
Who was George Kennan?
400
Executive act requiring federal employees to denounce Communism.
What was the Truman Loyalty Program?
400
Longest serving FBI director who would hunt communists his entire life.
Who was J. Edgar Hoover?
400
This is the type of economist system practiced in the United States.
What is capitalism?
400
Truman's plan to end to blockade of West Berlin.
What was the 'Berlin Airlift?'
500
Nationalist Prime Minister of Iran removed by the CIA.
Who was Mohammed Mossadegh?
500
Act granting military veterans financial aid after the war (for houses, education, etc.)
What was the Serviceman's Readjustment Act?
500
Ethel Rosenberg practiced this profession before being executed as a communist spy.
What is a housewife?
500
This sociological term defines the nature of the disconnect between parents and children culturally and socially.
What is the 'generation gap?'
500
This was the Christian, democratic, capitalist leader South Korea.
Who was Syngman Rhee?
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