Post War Europe
This plan involved rebuilding Western Europe and allying with Western European countries.
What is the Marshall plan?
The Cold War was between these two countries.
Who are the USA and USSR?
This practice of publicly accusing government employees of political disloyalty and being communists ruined many careers, reputations, and lives.
What is McCarthyism?
New families kept going into these new homes.
What are the suburbs?
This defensive organization made by the Western countries for the safety of the countries involved against Soviet aggression.
What is NATO?
The Cold War was not a battle fought with bullets, but with these ideas.
What are capitalism and communism?
This Supreme Court case made it clear that segregation in schools was illegal, and that "separate but equal," is ineheritently unequal.
What is Brown vs. Board of Ed?
Soldiers returning from war + all the single ladies X a great economy, caused the largest population in US history.
What is the Baby Boom?
This is the acronym for NATO
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
It's true, man, that under this foreign policy, the United States would provide political help, military help, and economic help to countries that promised to fight against communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
You like him, we like him, everybody likes the Republican president of the 50s.
Who is Dwight Eisenhower?
He, the King of Rock and Roll, has left the building.
Who is Elvis Presley?
This collective defense treaty established by the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe in response to NATO.
What is The Warsaw Pact?
Who supported who in the Korean War?
The United States helped South Korea, USSR/China helped North Korea.
This woman took a stand by sitting down.
Who is Rosa Parks?
Call her a minecrafter, cuz these women are doing what they were told to be in the 50s.
What are housemakers?
This mustached monster was the leader of the United States' rival during the early part of the Cold War.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
This was in line with the US policy of containment, and to prevent the further spread of communism.
Why did the USA join the Korean War?
This is the reason we're able to get across the country easily... assuming there is no traffic.
What is the Federal Highway Act?
They say money can't buy happiness, but this is when we keep buying anyway.
What is consumerism?