This referred to the massive increase in births in the United States in the early 1950s.
What is the baby boom?
100
What country was trying to contain communism?
What is the U.S.?
100
This person blocked African American high school students from entering a newly segregated high school in Little Rock, Arkansas
What is Orval Faubus?
100
What two major countries in the Cold War competed in the Space Race?
What is the U.S. and the USSR?
100
President Johnson's social welfare program is popularly referred to as this
What is the Great Society?
200
By the end of the 1950s almost every family had one of these entertainment devices in their homes.
What is televisions?
200
This was the first major military conflict between the West and the Communist
What is the Korean War?
200
A civil rights lawyer who brought a school segregation case to the Supreme Court and won.
What is Thurgood Marshall?
200
The Soviet Union launched this artificial satellite into space on October 4, 1947?
What is Sputnik?
200
Who was the leader of North Vietnam?
What is Ho Chi Minh.
300
Many World War II veterans were able to obtain job training and buy homes because of this government program.
What is the GI Bill?
300
The theory which states that if one country in South East Asia were to become communist, the rest would soon follow along.
What is the Domino Theory?
300
Rosa Parks refusal to give up her seat led to this event. African Americans refused to use the bus system to protest segregation.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
300
What is the name of the place where exiles tried to overthrow Fidel Castro?
What is the Bay of Pigs?
300
This led to increased antiwar sentiments among American citizens
What is media (or press)?
400
President Eisenhower led a vast expansion of this network in order to connect the country and provide more security for the U.S.
What is the Interstate Highway Act?
400
U.S. financial aid provided to help European countries rebuild from the aftermath of WW2
What is the Marshall Plan?
400
The law of 1964 making segregation illegal in public businesses and places and the law of 1965 that stated a person's voting rights could not be restricted.
What are the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act?
400
This led to advances in technology that have improved the quality of our lives
What is the space race
400
The resolution that was passed by the U.S. congress gave President Johnson the power to use all military means to protect South Vietnam from communism.
What is The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
500
They challenged conformity to Establishment thinking
What is the Beats?
500
The Soviet Union's response to the formation of NATO
What is the Warsaw Pact?
500
This is the group that organized the Greensboro Sit-Ins
Who is the SNCC (Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee)
500
Kennedy ordered a naval blockage to stop the Soviets from delivering more missiles.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
500
This limited the President’s power to commit troops to major military operations in a foreign nation