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100
He is known as the 'King of Rock n' Roll'
Who is Elvis Presley?
100
This was the earliest suburb built in the United States.
What is Levittown, NY?
100
This act provided generous loans to veterans to help them establish businesses, buy homes, and attend college
What is the GI Bill?
100
From 1945 to 1961, the era of when 65 million children were born in the U.S. is known as this
What is the baby boom?
100
A person who is a doctor works this type of job
What is a white-collar job?
200
He was an African-American singer who was denied a variety show because he could not find a national sponsor
Who is Nat King Cole?
200
NASA has a base and museum located here.
What is Cape Canaveral, FL?
200
This was Truman's response to Roosevelt's New Deal
What is the Fair Deal?
200
The cultural separation between children and their parents is known as this
What is the generation gap?
200
In 1946, a scientist working for the U.S. Army developed this to make military calculations faster
What is the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer)?
300
He was known as the 'Toast of the Town' and hosted a very popular variety show in the 1950s and 1960s
Who is Ed Sullivan?
300
This is a government-set figure to reflect the minimum income required to support a family
What is a poverty line?
300
The balance of economic conservatism with some activism is known as this
What is dynamic conservatism?
300
This idea came from the anti-social and criminal behavior of young people in the 1950s
What is juvenile delinquency?
300
The practice of limiting work output in order to create more jobs is known as this
What is featherbedding?
400
His book stated that conformity was changing people
Who is David Riesman?
400
These programs torn down slums and erected high-rise buildings to house the poor
What is urban renewal?
400
The U.S. government launched this program to bring Native Americans into mainstream America.
What is the termination policy?
400
The idea of living an unconventional life as a fugitive of the 1950's culture is known as this
What is the Beat Movement?
400
A company that expands across the world is known as this.
What is a multinational corporation?
500
His book claimed that postwar prosperity was a new phenomenon.
Who is John Kenneth Galbraith?
500
This region in the Northeast mountains has their own dialect and struggled through poverty in the 1950s.
What is Appalachia?
500
This is the largest public works program in American History
What is the Federal Highway Act of 1956?
500
He developed a medical breakthrough in the 1950s
Who is Jonas Salk?
500
This program brought over 5 million Hispanics to work and left them with poverty and hardship
What is the Bracero Program?