Economy & Consumerism
This economic period saw rapid growth industries such as electronics and automobiles.
What is the Post-War Economic Boom? (Close guesses are allowed)
This senator lead anti-communist investigations and witch hunts?
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
This 1954 Supreme Court case declared school segregation unconstitutional?
What is Brown V Board of Education?
Despite Brown v Board of Education, this practice continued in many areas through different forms of resistance and many loopholes.
What is Segregation?
This president led the U.S for most of the 1950's.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
This practice encouraged Americans to purchase goods by paying overtime?
What is Buying on Credit? (Installments)
In the year 1949 this country exploded its first ever atomic bomb?
What is the Soviet Union?
This 1957 law created a civil rights commission?
What is the civil rights act of 1957?
This term describes the targeting of LGBTQ plus people during the Cold War?
What is the Lavender scare?
This committee heled hearings to investigate suspected communist influence in American society.
What is HUAC?
Rapid expansion of housing developments outside cities that symbolized post-war prosperity and the "American Dream"
What is suburbanization?
This Cold War strategy looked to prevent the spread of communism worldwide
What is containment
A young boy who is murdered in 1955 and exposed racial injustice nationally over the US?
Who is Emmett Till?
This deportation campaign removed large numbers of Mexican/Latino workers?
What is Operation W*****?
This event that started in 1950 marked the first major military conflict of the Cold War.
What is the Korean War?
This demographic became the major focus of advertising and consumer culture in the 1950's.
Who are Teenagers?
This 1957 satellite launched and sparked American panic, and also led to great education reforms?
What is Sputnik?
This Supreme Court case fought discrimination against Mexican Americans in jury selection?
What is Hernandez v Texas?
This discriminatory practice kept equal housing opportunities from African Americans and segregated communities. The effects of this practice are still present today.
What is Redlining
This practice required many Americans to sign statements claiming they were not communists in order to keep their jobs.
What are Loyalty Oaths? Close answers will be taken
By 1960, this percentage of wealth was owned by the top 1% of Americans.
What is 33%
This document from the Cold War caused the US to double its overall spending
What is NSC-68
This is the division that was created in the U.S. justice department to enforce acts against racial discriminatory practices.
What is the Civil Rights Division
This executive order expanded investigations into LGBTQ individuals
What is Executive Order 10450?
After the Soviet launch of Sputnik, Congress passed a law to boost science and math education to compete in the Cold War.
What is the National Defense Education Act?