Key Terms
What is the Red Scare?
The two superpowers after WWII.
What is the US and Soviet Union?
The warm area of America that people moved to during the 1950s.
What is the sunbelt?
The line that separates the free countries from the communist countries in Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
The artist of Heartbreak Hotel.
Who is Elvis Presley?
War between democratic powers and communist powers in Asia.
What is the Korean War?
The defense alliance signed between Soviets and their satellite states.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
The best activity for the summer. Also, became an industry when car ownership boomed.
What is the drive-in movies?
The couple who was executed for accusations of sharing nuclear secrets with Soviet Union.
Who are the Rosenbergs?
The first creature to be launched into space.
Who is Laika?
Group of people who refused to conform during the 1950s.
What is the beatniks?
The stockpiling of nuclear weapons by United States and Soviet Union.
What is the Arms Race?
The symbol of youth culture during the 1950s. HINT: not a person.
What is Rock 'n' Roll?
The senator who accused several government officials of being communist.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower, or Ike?
The "benefit package" for WWII veterans
What is the GI Bill of Rights?
What is Mutually Assured Destruction, or MAD?
This demographic shift greatly impacted the economy and education system.
What is the baby boom?
What is China?
The leader of the Soviet Union after Stalin died. (first & last name)
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
The willingness to go to the edge of an all-out war
What is brinkmanship?
The response of western powers to Soviets cutting them off from Berlin.
What is the Berlin Airlift/Blockade?
The policy that forced Native Americans to assimilate to American culture in 1954.
What is Termination Policy?
The plan to send money to support nations fighting communism.
The leader of the communist party in China.
Who is Mao Zedong?