US Interstate
These were the first "highways" in the US.
What are rivers?
The major challenge of the baby boom.
What is building enough homes for them all?
This invention greatly improved life for people living in the hot southern US.
What is the air conditioner?
A word for separating people based on gender or race.
What is segregation?
A country that has significant influence and power over other countries around the world.
What is a Superpower?
The US President that developed the Interstate System.
Who is President Eiesenhower?
Number of homes built in the US from 1945-1955.
What is 13 million homes?
The name of the mission that put man on the moon.
What is Apollo 11?
The year in which the US Military was desegregated.
What is 1948?
In 1955, the US was making this percentage of the worlds cars.
What is 80%?
The amount of explosives it took to build the interstate system.
What is 1.5 million tons?
The name for Levitt and Sons housing developments.
What is Levittown?
This US President set the goal of putting a man on them moon sometime in the 1960s.
Who is President John F Kennedy?
The name of Martin Luther King Jrs most famous speech.
What was the "I Have a Dream" speech?
1950s washing machines made the task of washing clothes go from 6 hours to this amount of time.
What is 45 minutes?
It is 46,876 miles long.
How long is the interstate system?
This company became the Ford production line of house building in the 1950s.
Who is Levitt and Sons?
The date that man first landed on the moon.
What is July 20, 1969?
A time of tension and conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union and their allies.
What is a cold war?
economic wealth, military strength, technological strength, political infuluence and cultural strength
What are the 5 factors that make a superpower?
It killed businesses and towns that depended on people traveling through.
What is a negative of the interstate?
According to Mr. Barberg and the inflation calculator, the amount the average new home would cost in the 1950's in today's money.
What is $95,000?
The first 3 Astronauts to land on the moon.
Who are Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin
October 1962, US and Soviet Union came close to nuclear war after the Soviets secretly brought nuclear missiles to Cuba, prompting a US naval blockade of the island.
What is the Cuban Missle Crisis?
The largest earthmoving project in the history of the world.
What is the US Interstate System?