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100
This couple was executed for espionage in 1953.
Who are the Rosenburgs?
100
Bill Haley & the Comments recorded this first Rock & Roll song in 1954.
What is Rock Around the Clock?
100
This former US WW II General was elected president in 1952.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
100
Holden Caulfield was the main figure in what JD Salinger novel?
What is The Catcher in the Rye?
100
Castro deposed this Cuban leader in 1959.
Who is Batista?
200
This country crossed the 38th parallel in June, 1950. Starting a 3 year conflict.
What is North Korea?
200
He performed his first hit, “That’s alright Mama” in 1954.
Who is Elvis Presley?
200
This 1954 US Supreme Court case over turned “separate but equal”.
What is Brown vs. the Board of Education?
200
This writer typified the “Beat Generation” with his popular novel, On the Road.
Who is Jack Kerouac?
200
Russia started the space race by launching this satellite in 1957.
What is Sputnik?
300
The US used this theory to justify its intervention in Korea & Vietnam.
What is the domino theory?
300
It took him 20 minutes to write Splish Splash in 1958.
Who is Bobby Darin?
300
This lady’s refusal to sit in the back of the bus, started the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955.
Who is Rosa Parks?
300
Poet Allen Gingsberg criticized modern, mechanized culture with this popular poem.
What is Howl?
300
This Disney show was a popular daily feature in the 50’s.
What is the Mickey Mouse Show?
400
This US Senator lead an anti-communist witch hunt culminating in televised hearings in 1954.
Who is Senator Joseph McCarthy?
400
This guitar aficionado performed songs like “Maybellene” and “Johnny B. Goode”.
Who is Chuck Berry?
400
This 1954 US Supreme Court case over turned “separate but equal”.
What is Brown vs. the Board of Education?
400
The Abstract Expressionists, led by this artist, reflected alienation from a world filled with nuclear threats and materialism.
Who is Jackson Pollock?
400
A crucial confrontation in school integration took place in this city in 1957.
What is Little Rock, Arkansas?
500
This Soviet leader dieg in 1953.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
500
Some say the 50s’ died on February 3, 1959, the Day the Music Died. Three artists died in that plane crash.
Who are the Big Bopper, Buddy Holly & Ritchie Valens?
500
Eisenhower’s Sec. of Defense (former GM president) said, “What is good for our country is good for General Motors and vice versa.”
Who is Charles E. Wilson?
500
This artistic movement began in Britain, it used popular mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane cultural objects.
What is Pop Art?
500
This fast food chain opened in Illinois in 1955.
What is McDonald’s?
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