West Berlin was supported by American cargo planes flying in supplies to them during the Soviet Blockade in 1948. What was this mission called?
The Berlin Airlift
100
Famous General fired by President Truman for insubordination.
General Douglas MacArthur
100
These are the rights that are guaranteed to each and every American in the Constitution.
Civil Rights
100
What term means to be addicted to material possessions?
Materialism
100
Who was the most prominent civil rights leader in the late 1950's and through the 1960's.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
200
In the Korean War, which nation did the US support?
South Korea
200
He became the first African-American Federal Appeals Court Judge under President Truman.
William Hastie
200
This bill was passed by Congress after World War II to help soldiers returning home.
G.I. Bill
200
What was the purpose of the civil rights movement?
African Americans were fighting for equal rights.
200
What region of the United States is known as the Sunbelt Region, according to the reading?
Southwest Region
300
This couple was executed in 1953 after being convicted of being spies for the Soviet Union.
The Rosenbergs
300
This man was the successor to Joseph Stalin as the Soviet leader after Stalin's death in 1953.
Nikita Khrushchev
300
This is an act by a court which forbid a union from striking.
Injunction
300
When soldiers returned home after the war and began to start families, what was this mass birth of children called?
The Baby Boom
300
Name of first African American Major League baseball player.
Jackie Robinson
400
Name of the local laws passed after the Civil War that segregated society by race.
Jim Crow Laws
400
This African-American woman refused to leave her seat on an Alabama bus for a white man. This action led to the beginning of the Montgomery bus boycott.
Rosa Parks
400
What was the name of the congressional act that led to the construction of Interstate 71?
The Federal Aid Highway Act
400
The Taft-Hartley Act allowed labor unions to do what?
Strike
400
This international peace keeping body was formed with the help of President Truman on April 25, 1945.
The United Nations
500
What Supreme Court case led to the desegregation of public schools beginning in 1954?
Brown vs. Board of Education
500
He was elected President in 1952 and was known for his leadership as the Supreme Allied European commander in World War II.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
500
President Truman's programs proposed in 1945 to address poverty and needs to post-war America were called what?
The Fair Deal
500
The advancements of agriculture in the 1950s were known as "_______?"