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100
This chain showed the entrance of consumer culture into food
What is McDonalds?
100
The Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public schools was unequal and, thus, unconstitutional
What was Brown v. Board of Education?
100
In response to NATO, the USSR and Eastern European countries signed this pact
What is the Warsaw Pact?
100
This place became the art capital of the world after WWII.
What is New York?
100
The US spent this much to prevent communism from spreading in Latin America
What is $500 million?
200
This is the sector that women entered in the job market
What is the service sector?
200
Ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, is considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement.
What is the civil rights act?
200
This was the name of the communist leader in Vietnam
Who was Ho Chi Minh?
200
Helped develop abstract expressionism in the 1940s and 1950s.
Who is Jackson Pollock?
200
This country in Latin America became a Soviet Military Chemist
What is Cuba?
300
Eisenhower provided this for free to Americans
What is the polio vaccine?
300
Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. formed this
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?
300
North and South Korea agreed to an armistice after Eisenhower threatened to do this
What is to use nuclear weapons?
300
He wrote The Old Man and the Sea, won the Nobel Prize for literature, and killed himself in 1961
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
300
The US did this to force Britain and France to retreat from the Suez Canal
What is stop providing Britain and France oil?
400
This group of people did not approve of new icons like Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe
Who are the traditionalists?
400
Southern black students formed this to give more focus to their efforts
What is the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee?
400
McCarthy said this number of communists were working in the State Department.
What is 205?
400
Looked at social issues
What is literature?
400
Succeeded in changing the custom, and was thrust onto the national stage.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
500
Eisenhower passed this act which improved transportation
What is the Interstate Highway Act?
500
He ended segregation in federal civil service and ordered "equality of treatment and opportunity" in the armed forces in 1948.
Who is President Harry Truman?
500
These two territories became states
What are Alaska and Hawaii?
500
Flourished during the postwar era
What is poetry and playwrights?
500
Were created in a modernist or "International Style."
What are skyscrapers?
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