Housing after WWII
This was the name for a place and state where all the houses were built cheap and oftentimes had similar designs for people in the middle class.
What is Levittown, Pa.?
First country to send a satellite into space.
What is Russia?
Senator who initiated the scare that there were Communists everywhere in the United States during the 1950's
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
Who is Elvis Presley?
This war started under Truman.
What is the Korean War?
What is Sears?
First man to orbit the earth for the United States.
Who is John Glenn?
The initial purpose of the interstate highway system.
What is transportation for national defense?
Top rated TV comedy show during the 50's with one very loud female lead.
What is I Love Lucy?
A war that lasted as many as 20 years for the United States with much of it being fought in a burning jungle.
What is Vietnam?
The shape of the Levittown mall was the shape of this letter.
What is an L or a V?
Who is Laika?
We wanted to keep the Russians from spreading their communist beliefs so we had a policy that tried to keep this system of government hemmed in.
What is containment?
Year during the 50's that the words "One Nation Under God" was added to the Pledge of Allegiance.
What is 1954?
Country we were afraid we might end up fighting in World War III because we were close to crossing into it in North Korea.
What is China?
The name of the man who was in charge of the Newark Housing Authority after World War II.
What is Louis Danzig?
What is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
This was the theory that if one nation fell to Communism in a region, that more and more would likely fall like...
What is the domino theory?
Starter of McDonald's whose name does not have Mc in it.
Who is Ray Kroc?
Name of the general that Truman fired because he publicly disagreed with his policies in Korea.
Who is General Douglas MacArthur?
Nationality that was not black but not happy when their neighborhood in decimated in an attempt to renew its housing.
What is Italian?
The name of the first satellite sent to space by the United States was called this.
What is the Explorer?
Actors spoke out against the hearings during the Red Scare in our country. This is what happened to them in the movie industry.
They were blacklisted.
The Day the Music Died was a reference to the day this popular musician that sang "Peggy Sue" died.
Who is Buddy Holly?
Name of the river we were kind of afraid to cross in Korea.
What is the Yalu River?