Nifty 1950s
Red Scare
Blocking Communism
Early Civil Rights
Presidential Trivia
100
After the World War II, millions of White families would move to these cheap and easily built communities.
What are suburbs?
100
A Red Scare is the fear of this form of government and belief system spreading in the United States.
What is communism?
100
This was the first crisis in the Cold War when the United States had to drop supplies for over a year into West Berlin after Joseph Stalin surrounded the city with a military blockade.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
100
This baseball player would be an early symbol of Civil Rights when he broke the color line of Major League Baseball in 1947 by joining the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
100
The Democratic president of the United States from 1945 to 1952 who would two nuclear bombs on Japan, rebuild Western Europe with the Marshall Plan, stop the spread of communism with containment, establish the military alliance of NATO, propose his Fair Deal economic plan, conduct the Berlin Airlift against Joseph Stalin, desegregate the military in 1948 through executive order, and lead America through the Korean War.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
200
By 1960, there were more than 52 million of these in American homes blasting shows like "I Love Lucy" and "Leave It to Beaver" into American living rooms.
What are televisions?
200
Created in 1938 to investigate alleged Nazis in the United States, it would be used throughout the early Cold War to question suspected communists in the State Department, military, Hollywood, and college campuses.
What is the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)?
200
This was the program created by Secretary of State George Marshall that gave billions of dollars in aid to European countries to rebuilt after World War II and to prevent them form converting to communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?
200
This Supreme Court case filed by the NAACP would end segregation in public schools in 1954 and overturn the 1896 ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson.
What is Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka?
200
The Republican president from 1952 to 1960 who served as the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe during World War II and oversaw D-Day. As president he would end the Korean War, send in the Army during the Little Rock Nine crisis in 1957, start America in the Space Race and create NASA, and would create the Interstate Highway System.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
300
This law passed in 1944 would give scholarships for college and cheap loans for homes to returning World War II veterans and their families.
What is the GI Bill?
300
This junior Senator from Wisconsin became the face of the Red Scare when he accussed hundreds of people during Congressional hearings of being communists without proof.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
300
The United States and United Nations got involved in this conflict from 1950 to 1953 when the northern side of this Asian country invaded the Southern side.
What is the Korean War?
300
Rosa Parks would spark a movement in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama by refusing to give up her seat on a segregated city bus. This was the 27-year-old preacher would lead the nonviolent boycott for over a year.
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
300
This Democratic president served from 1960 to 1963 and would order the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion into Cuba in 1961, lead the country through the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, be president during the construction of the Berlin Wall, and would suggest comprehensive civil rights legislation in 1963 before being assassinated in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963.
Who is John F. Kennedy? 
400
Built and funded by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, this system of interconnected roads is the now the lifeblood of the country and created a car culture in the United States.
What is the Interstate Highway System?
400
This is the Soviet satellite that launched into orbit in 1957 and started the space race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
What is Sputnik?
400
This is the policy created by President Harry Truman that would stop the spread of communism through financial or military aid and would be the guiding foreign policy throughout most of the Cold War from 1945 to 1991.
What is containment/Truman Doctrine?
400
Four college students in 1960 in Greensboro, North Carolina used this form of non-violent protest to protest against the segregated lunch counters of the local Woolworth's.
What is a sit-in?
400
This Democratic president from 1963 to 1968 would lead America into the Vietnam War to stop communism from spreading, create the Great Society program to attack poverty, and would pass life-changing civil rights legislation like the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson? 
500
This post-World War II generation popularized rock and roll, movies, cars, and teenage culture.
Who are Baby Boomers?
500
This motto was added to all U.S. currency in 1956 to contrast the United States from the Soviet Union.
What is "In God We Trust?"
500
This Caribbean nation became the target of American intervention after it was taken over by communist rebels in 1959.
What is Cuba?
500
These are the four major civil rights organizations in the U.S. by 1965.
Who are the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), the SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference), SNCC (Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee), and CORE (Congress of Racial Equality).
500
This Republican president from 1968 to 1974 would expand the Vietnam War into Cambodia and Laos before withdrawing American troops in 1973. He would also try to restrict the gains of the civil rights movement, pass environmental legislation, start detente and open talks with the Soviet Union, be the first president to visit communist China, and would eventually resign from office after the exposure of the Watergate Scandal by his associates.
Who is Richard Nixon?