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100
He arranged for about 400 million dollars in aid to be sent to postwar Turkey and Greece.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
100
This policy was intended to defend the Middle East, an attack by any communist country.
What is the Eisenhower Doctrine?
100
This term refers to the indirect but hostile conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union, which began at the end of World War II.
What is the Cold War?
100
What category do stereophonic sound and popular culture belong?
What is film of the 1950's?
100
This group consisted of Eastern European nations that were dominated by the Soviet Union.
What are satelite nations?
200
The Senate eventually condemned this man for improper conduct that tended "to bring the Senate into disrepute".
Who is Senator Joseph McCarthy?
200
This defensive military alliance was the first that the United States ever entered upon during peacetime.
What is NATO?
200
This policy required greater dependence on nuclear weapons and the airplanes that delivered them.
What is brinkmanship?
200
This is often referred to as the glorification of white America and the Western frontier.
What is television of the 50's?
200
During the 1950's, which jobs declined?
What is manufacturing?
300
He could only be charged with perjury, not espionage, because too many years had passed since the spying had taken place.
Who is Alger Hiss?
300
Both the United States and the Soviet Union joined this organization after World War II.
What is the United Nations?
300
This is a company that offers the same products or services in many locations.
What is a franchise?
300
Focused on local and community interests, also popularized African-American cultures.
What is radio in the 50's?
300
One of the benefits the GI Bill of Rights offered to returning veterans.
What is low-interest rates?
400
Who claimed to be persecuted for being Jewish, holding radical beliefs, and pleaded not guilty to the crime of espionage?
Who are Ethel & Julius Rosenberg?
400
When the Soviet Union exploded an atomic bomb, the United States responded by developing what?
What is the hydrogen bomb?
400
This is the preoccupation with buying material goods.
What is consumerism?
400
Followers of this movement were called beats or beatniks, who lived nonconformist lives.
What is the Beat Movement?
400
This is a marketing strategy, in which manufactures purposely design products to wear out or become outdated in a short period of time.
What is planned obsolescence?
500
He told an aide, "If one of these [U-2's] were lost when we were engaged in apparently sincere deliberations, it could...ruin my effectiveness".
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
500
This action provided vital supplies to a region blockaded by the Soviet Union.
What is the Berlin airlift?
500
This is a major corporation that includes a number of smaller companies in unrelated industries.
What is a conglomerate?
500
Elvis Presley can be sorted into this culture, the name, which has come to mean music that's both black and white, with roots in rhythm and blues.
What is Rock 'n' Roll?
500
This type of business seeks financial security through diversification, or investment in various areas of the economy.
What is a conglomerate?
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