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1000

This president spend millions of dollars building up the Unites States' reserve of nuclear weapons...

Dwight Eisenhower

1000

The best selling book of the 1950s...

The Bible

1000

People built these on their property...

Bomb shelters

1000
Who signed the bill to create the interstate highway system?

President Eisenhower

1000

Where did the Japanese bomb during WWII? 

Bonus: What was the date?

A US Pacific navy fleet in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.


December 7th, 1941

2000

Children born to WWII veterans were known as...

Baby Boomers

2000

In 1949, this country announced that they, too, had built an atomic weapon...

Russia

2000
Newer, bigger roads to connect the country...

Interstate highway system

2000

Children were taught to do this to protect themselves from a nuclear attack...

Duck and cover

2000

Who was the president that authorized the dropping of the atomic bombs? 

Bonus: What number president was he?

Harry Truman

33rd 

3000
What did the GI bill do?
It helped veterans by homes.
3000

This refers to the period of time after the Second World War when the US and Communist Russia were hostile to each other...

The Cold War

3000

A nickname for Communists...

Reds

3000

What did Julius and Ethel Rosenberg do...

They were caught spying for Russia and were executed.

3000

Many homeless blamed this president for the Great Depression...

Bonus: What number president was he?

Herbert Hoover

31st

4000
This was a union of democratic counties opposed to Communist Russia...

NATO

4000

Though Russia did not fight the US in this war, they supported America's enemies. Which war was this?

Bonus: Why was America fighting in this war?

The Korean War

They were fighting in this war to stop Communist North Korea from taking over South Korea

4000

What is a Deterrant?

The idea of having more nuclear weapons would prevent anyone from using them.
4000

Convinced the president to add "Under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance...

Knights of Columbus

4000
Escaped slave who made 19 journeys into the South to help hundreds of slaves escape...

Harriet Tubman

5000
The Red Scare was at ime when...

Americans were suspicious that Communist spies were in the country.

5000

People were encouraged to submit these to the authorities...

Un-American activites
5000

Archbishop who had a popular television program...

Venerable Fulton J. Sheen

5000

Said the US government was full of spies...

Senator Joseph McCarthy

5000

Four thousand of them dies on the Trail of Tears...

Cherokee

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