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The Cold War
Communism
The Korean War
Postwar America
Life in the 50's
100
Define the Cold War
What are countries developing Nuclear Weapons
100

What kind of a society does this describe and what is it the opposite of?


Where private citizens control almost all economic activity and voting is by the people who elect a president 

What is a capitalistic society and what is the opposite of communism?

100
What did the US do that gave Soviets a chance to invade South Korea?
What is cutting back military support?
100
What did America become after WWII?
What is an economic and military super power?
100
Having a wife, family, a home, a car and money in your pocket was called....
What is the American Dream?
200
Name the 2 main countries the tensions were between
What is the US and Soviet Union
200
Name the Communist leader in China
Who was Mao ZeDong?
200
What political party was South Korea?
What is the Nationalist Party?
200
Veterans faced unemployment so the government gave them what and what did it provide?
What is the GI Bill and what are low interest loans, free tuition to college and unemployment benefits?
200
What led to the population explosion and what was it called?
Who are soldiers returning home, settling into family life and what is the baby boom?
300

How long would the Cold War dominate global affairs—and U.S. foreign policy?

What was 1945 until the break up of the Soviet Union in 1991?
300
What happened in the US after WWII that related to Communism?
What is fearing spies who are planning espionage?
300
Who were the allies to North Korea?
Who are China and the Soviet Union?
300
What happened because men and women's roles changed?
What is a rise in the divorce rate?
300
Name a scientific discovery of the 50's that ended a childhood disease and who developed it?
What was the polio vaccine and who was Jonas Salk?
400
What did Stalin do in West Berlin that almost starved the people and what did the US do to help?
What is blockading supplies and the Berlin Airlift?
400
Who were the minor communists activist in the US who gave the Soviets atomic secrets and what happened to them. 
Who were the Rosenburgs and why were they executed?
400
Who was the US general during the war and what was his solution to end the war?
Who was Douglass Macarthur and what is the use of atomic weapons?
400
Who was the next president after Truman and what party did he represent?
Who was Dwight D. Eisenhower and what is a republican?
400
What adolescent title was invented in the 50's?
What is a teenager?
500

What does NATO stand for and what did it do?


What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and what are the 12 members nations who pledged military support to one another?
500
What program did President Truman implement to investigate government employees?
What is the Federal Employee Loyalty Program?
500
Approximately how many troops did the US send to help South Korea? 
What is 90% of 520,000 troops?
500
Where were assembly line houses built and who was behind the idea?
What are the suburbs and who was Henry Kaiser?
500
What enabled Americans in the 50's to have more leisure time? 
What are cars, roads, suburbs and commuting to work?