Americana
What was the Baby Boom in America?
A population increase from 1944-1957. (Baby boom generation lasted from 1944-64)
What was President Truman's policy on Communist expansion?
Containment
What was the name of the American program to help Europe rebuild after WWII?
The Marshall Plan/European Recovery Program
What did Stalin do in an attempt to push out the Allies from having any influence in Germany after WWII?
Cut all access to Berlin in 1948
What global organization was created post-WWII to help promote peace around the world?
United Nations
Name of the neighborhoods that saw an increase of families moving into in the 1950's.
Suburbs
What 19th century American policy did President Truman adopted as his own, which he also renamed?
The Monroe Doctrine/Truman Doctrine
What country was at the center of a major controversy early in the Cold War?
Germany and the Soviet Union
What four counties controlled Germany after WWII?
Soviet Union
Great Britain
France
What military alliance was formed to address threats of Soviet expansion?
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
What major highway project opened up access ways across the United States in the 1950's?
Interstate Highway Act
What president did President Truman succeed in 1945?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Why was Germany divided after WWII?
To demilitarize, give reparations, and denazification
Name of the plane that delivered treats to children in Berlin.
The Candy Bomber
What alliance was formed by the Soviet Union to counter NATO?
Warsaw Pact
Name of the invention that allowed people to consume news and entertainment from home?
Television
At what conference did President Truman meet with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin in 1945 to discuss the state of post-WWII Japan?
Potsdam Conference
What action was taken to supply the citizens of Berlin with needed materials from June 1948 to September 1949?
The Berlin Airlift
What conference was the last meeting between FDR, Stalin, and Churchill to discuss post-war Germany?
Yalta Conference
What devise did the United States possess that led to being a superpower?
The atomic bomb
Supreme Court case that ended segregation in schools across America.
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
President Truman was the only president of the 20th century to not have this.
A college degree
What two basic sections was Germany divided into after WWII?
Communist east and Democratic west
What is the official reason for the United States dropping two atomic bombs on Japan?
Force Japan to surrender and save lives
What profession did President Harry S. Truman work as before becoming president?
Haberdasher (someone who works in a men's clothing store)