Cold Hard Facts
This American economic plan provided aid to rebuild Western Europe after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
These planned communities symbolized 1950s suburban growth and conformity.
What is Levittown?
The launch of this Soviet satellite shocked the U.S. in 1957.
What is Sputnik?
This Supreme Court decision ended legal school segregation.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This group of 1950s writers challenged conformity and materialism.
Who are the Beat Generation?
The U.S. responded to a Soviet blockade with this 1948–49 operation.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
This term describes the 1950s fear-driven hunt for communists.
What is McCarthyism?
This act funded science and math education after Sputnik.
What is the National Defense Education Act?
This city’s 1955 bus boycott was sparked by Rosa Parks’ arrest.
What is Montgomery?
This new music style symbolized rebellion and youth culture.
What is rock and roll?
This war was the first military test of the containment policy.
What is the Korean War?
This 1950s ideal promoted women’s domestic roles post-WWII.
What is the Feminine Ideal?
This acronym describes guaranteed destruction in a nuclear war.
What is MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction)?
The brutal murder of this Chicago teen in Mississippi drew national attention.
Who is Emmett Till?
This bill gave veterans access to college and home loans after WWII.
What is the GI Bill?
This 1947 U.S. policy marked a major shift from isolationism, asserting that the U.S. would provide political, military, and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This Cold War incident involved a U.S. spy plane being shot down over the USSR.
What is the U-2 Incident?
This "scare" involved government targeting of LGBTQ+ workers.
What is the Lavender Scare?
This committee investigated suspected communists in government and Hollywood.
What is HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee)?
Federal troops were sent to this city to protect Black students integrating school.
What is Little Rock?
This form of entertainment shaped idealized American life and family roles.
What is television?
These two covert CIA missions removed governments in Iran and Guatemala.
What are Operation AJAX and PBSUCCESS?
This CIA operation monitored domestic civil rights and anti-war groups.
What is Operation CHAOS?
This type of shelter was commonly built by Americans fearing nuclear war.
What is a fallout shelter?
This strategy was central to the early Civil Rights Movement's protests.
What is nonviolent resistance?
This doctrine pledged to aid countries resisting communism in the Cold War.
What is the Truman Doctrine?