A husband and wife made up this popular 1950s TV show.
What is I Love Lucy?
100
Men's and women's roles were defined by what?
What is social and religious traditions?
100
This act allowed for the president to declare an 80 day cooling off period in which strikers had to return to work if its industries affected national interest.
What is the Taft-Hartley Act?
200
This author wrote The Catcher in the Rye.
Who is J.D. Salinger?
200
This type of worker produces goods or performs services depended on manual labor.
What is a blue-collar worker?
200
This is a tiny circuit device that amplifies, controls, and generates electrical signals.
What is a transistor?
200
What was the role of women during the 1950s?
What is to manage the household?
200
Truman created this 21 point program that extended the New Deal.
What is the Fair Deal?
300
Who had the first successful test of the polio vaccine?
Who is Jonas Salk?
300
This is a business that contracts to offer certain goods and services from a larger parent company.
What is a franchise?
300
What disease did Jonas Salk create a vaccine to prevent against?
What is polio?
300
Elvis Presley was the king of _________?
What is rock and roll?
300
Eisenhower's idea of Modern Republicanism is_________?
What is conservative when it comes to money, liberal when it comes to human beings?
400
Feminine Mystique was written by this woman.
Who is Betty Friedman?
400
This is the term for a person who criticized American society as apathetic and conformist.
What is a beatnik?
400
Along with the discovery of antibiotics, what other medical advancement was developed during the 1950s?
What is surgical advances/surgery to correct heart defects?
400
What was the norm for most women to do once they got married?
What is to leave their jobs?
400
This program was created in response to Soviet Union launch of Sputnik.
What is NASA?
500
This future president went on television to defend himself of accusations stating that he accepted illegal gifts from political friends.
Who is Richard Nixon?
500
This is a corporation made up of three or more unrelated businesses which helped to defend against economic downturn.
What is a conglomerate?
500
What was a transistor used in?
What is a radio/computer/electrical devices?
500
James Dean was in this movie that captured the feelings of alienation.
What is Rebel Without a Cause?
500
This act was designed to improve science and mathematics instruction in schools so the US could meet the scientific and technical challenge of the Soviet Union.