These were the three things Italian children were taught in schools after Mussolini came to power.
What are believe, obey, fight?
100
This group was the poorest minority group in America in the 1950s.
What are Native Americans?
100
This is the nickname for the first atomic bomb the U.S. dropped on Japan.
What is Little Boy?
100
This was the price of the average home built in Levittown, NY, in the 1950s.
What is $8,000?
100
This is the president who ordered the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan.
Who is Harry Truman?
200
The three main Axis countries during World War II were Germany, Italy, and this country.
What is Japan?
200
This was the cost of a loaf of bread in the 1950s.
What is $0.19?
200
This is the year communism spread to China, when Mao Zedong took over the government.
What is 1949?
200
This was the name for the legislative program President Truman wanted to enact after World War II.
What is the Fair Deal?
200
This is the name of the man who lost on the famous episode of the TV game show "Twenty One."
What is Herb Stempel?
300
In 1931, Japan invaded this region in order to get more raw materials.
What is Manchuria?
300
This is the name Truman gave to the congress that refused to enact the laws Truman wanted.
What is the "Do-Nothing Congress"?
300
True or False: The term "Iron Curtain" refers to a wall that separated Eastern Europe from Western Europe during the Cold War.
What is false?
300
This is the term for the ability and desire to spend extra money, something that came about for the first time in America in the 1950s.
What is consumerism?
300
This United States senator accused his political opponents of being communists in the 1950s.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
400
This is the name of the internment camp where Japanese-Americans who were considered troublesome were sent.
What is Tule Lake?
400
This is the name for the conference that took place near the end of World War II at which the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union agreed to divide up Germany after the war.
What is the Yalta Conference?
400
This is the name for the concern some people felt about the possibility of communism spreading to the United States during the 1950s.
What is the Red Scare?
400
This is the approximate number of babies that were born in America in the period between 1945 and 1961, the period known as the Baby Boom.
What is 65 million?
400
He was the leader of the Soviet Union during World War II.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
500
The main Allied countries during World War II were Great Britain, the United States, France, and this country.
What is Russia?
500
This is the couple who were convicted of and executed for selling secrets to the Soviet Union for how to make the atomic bomb.
Who are Julius & Ethel Rosenberg?
500
This is the name for the plan to help European nations rebuild after World War II.
What is the Marshall Plan?
500
According to the article titled “The Rise of American Consumerism,” this is one of the factors that led to so many people buying cars for the first time in the 1950s.
What is the growth of the suburbs?
500
This is the Soviet leader who ordered the construction of the Berlin Wall.