This president had the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
Who is President Harry Truman?
100
This document became the foundation for the Containment Policy of the United States.
What is the NSC 68?
100
This legislation allowed many returning veterans to go back to colleges.
What is the G.I. Bill?
100
This conflict was started when North Korea launched an invasion of South Korea on June 25, 1950 which quickly brought the United Nation forces to the defense of South Korea
What is the Korean War?
100
In October 1957, the Soviet shocked the world when they launched this satellite into orbit to become the first country to send an object into space and also start the space race.
What is Sputnik?
200
He was the leader of the Soviet Union during the end of World War II.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
200
This became the economic policy to rebuild Europe after World War II by providing billions of dollars in aid.
What is the Marshall Plan?
200
President Truman defeated this Republican candidate during the 1948 elections?
Who is Thomas Dewey?
200
This incident only intensified the relations between the U.S. and Soviet Union when an American spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union.
What is U-2 incident?
200
This musician appeared on the Ed Sullivan show on September 9, 1956 and promoted this new style of music called Rock -n- Roll.
Who is Elvis Presley?
300
This was the Communist leader who overthrows the Chinese government establishes himself as ruler.
Who is Mao Zedong?
300
In this conference Churchhill, Stalin, and Roosevelt, came to agreement that Germany would be divided into spheres of influences.
What is the Yalta Conference?
300
This became known as Truman's policy to deal with domestic issues like: increasing the minimum wage, social security benefits, and public work projects.
What is the Fair Deal Policy?
300
This a bold military move by the U.N. troops to stop the North Korean military advance.
What is the Inchon invasion?
300
This electronic device changed how Americans would spend their evenings at home grouped around it.
What is television?
400
He was the Commander of all United Nation forces during the Korean War and later fired by President Truman.
Who was General Douglas MacArthur?
400
This became the United States policy throughout the Cold War to stop the spread of communism.
What is Containment Policy?
400
During Eisenhower's administration these were built across the United States which connected many major cities.
What is the interstate highway system?
400
This communist rebel was able to overthrow the Cuban government and establish himself as dictator.
What is Fidel Castro?
400
This Civil Right's leader was responsible for the success of the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
500
This person started the "Red Scare" in America and starting looking for Communists in our country.
Who is Senator Joseph McCarthy?
500
During this crisis, allied aircraft brought more than 2.5 million tons of food and equipment Germans cut off in the city of Berlin.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
500
These were inexpensive homes built in many suburbs across America.
What is the Levittown homes?
500
This American organization helped to covertly topple the government of Iran and install the Shah.
What is the C.I.A.?
500
This famous Supreme Court decision in 1954, officially ordered the desegregation of all schools across the United States, it abolished the Separate but Equal clause.