Origins
Conflicts
Politics
1950s Culture
Important People
100
An international peacekeeping organization formed after WWII.
What is the United Nations?
100
The Soviets formed this as a counter to NATO.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
100
President who devised a program called the Fair Deal.
Who is Harry Truman?
100
This replaced the radio as the center of home family entertainment.
What is the television?
100
He lead the UN forces during the Korean War
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
200
Meeting where Truman tried to get the upper hand by telling Stalin about the US atomic bomb program.
What is the Potsdam Conference?
200
Aid to West Berlin by the British and Americans after Stalin cut off all ground access.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
200
This president intended to be "conservative when it comes to money, liberal when it comes to human beings."
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
200
Many middle class Americans moved to these neighborhoods to escape the busyness of the cities.
What is the suburbs?
200
Senator who gain power through a crusade against potential communists in the Government.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
300
Term Winston Churchill used to describe the dividing line between Communist and non-communist Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
300
After being split at the end of WWII, this country fought over reunification in the early 1950s.
What is Korea?
300
Term to describe a senator's crusade to rid the government of communist influences through a smear tactics.
What is McCarthyism?
300
Form of music that became popular during the 1950s, especially with teenagers.
What is Rock n' Roll?
300
Couple who were executed for alleged espionage.
Who are Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?
400
Attempt to keep Communism where it had already been established.
What is containment?
400
Policy of going as close two war as possible without actually going to war.
What is brinkmanship?
400
Policy which stated America would assist any nation that was under threat of a forced, unpopular government.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
400
Counterculture of the 1950s which stressed spontaneity and release from material goods.
Who are the beatniks?
400
He was the vice president under Eisenhower who gave the famous "Checkers Speech".
Who is Richard Nixon?
500
A post WWII program for European economic recovery.
What is the Marshall Plan?
500
Event where a US Spy plane was shot down by a Soviet missile.
What is the U-2 Incident?
500
Program established by Eisenhower to keep up with the Russian space program.
What is NASA?
500
Evangelist who gained a wide following during the 1950s.
Who is Billy Graham?
500
The policy of containment was based on writings of this man.
Who is George Kennan?
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