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Non-Conformity and Misc.
100
This plan gave economic assistance to European countries after WWII
What is the Marshall plan?
100

This is the place where many middle-class people moved to cause economic hardship for urban areas.

What are the Suburbs?

100

This multi-national organization was created for the purpose of mutual defense/collective security against the Soviet Union (not the UN)

What is NATO?

100

Court case that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and de-segregated the schools. 

What was Brown vs. Board of Education (1954)

100
Group of people who wrote poetry and rejected the ideals of the 1950s.
What are Beatniks?
200

Churchill used this phrase to refer to Eastern Europe being under the control of the Soviet Union; dividing line of eastern and western Europe

What is the Iron Curtain?

200

This term refers to spending on things like televisions and appliances.

What is consumerism?

200
This Congressional committee's investigation led to many Hollywood producers, directors, and actors getting blacklisted
What is HUAC (House un-American Activities Committee)?
200

The line that divides North and South Korea that was established at the end of the Korean War. 

What is the 38th Parallel?

200
Dr. Jonas Salk developed a vaccine to combat this once fearful disease.
What is Polio?
300

This act allowed the building of the interstate road system and connected the country east to west. 

What is the Federal Highway Act of 1956? 

300

Helped cause the population to shift from urban areas to the suburbs.

What is Baby boom or car or inexpensive housing?

300

Foreign Policy which states that the U.S. must prevent communism from spreading.

What is containment?

300
The baby boom of the 1950s and 1960s caused an increase in the construction of these two things
What are houses and schools?
300
The international political philosophy where one appears ready to go to war. Literally "at the edge" of attacking.
What is Brinkmanship?
400
A senator who seemed to have solid proof that communists had infiltrated the government
Who is Joe McCarthy?
400
This government program helped former soldiers get an education and buy homes
What is the G.I. Bill
400
This event saw the United States and other European nations bring food and supplies to a German city when the Soviets blocked ground transportation to that city.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
400

Americans started to live in fear because of this policy that meant if one country was destroyed because of atomic bombs, the other one would be too. 

What is mutually assured destruction (MAD). 

400

What type of music was created in the 1950s as a way of expressing non-conformity? 

What is rock 'n roll? 

500
This phrase describes the constant need to build up more weapons than the Soviets in order to prevent nuclear war
What is Arms Race?
500

The interstate system, fast food restaurants. drive-in movies and the suburbs were all made possible by what type of culture? 

What is car culture?

500

The nickname given to the fears of Communism in the 1950s in the U.S., partially caused by McCarthyism and a fear of communists in our government. 

What is the Second Red Scare? 

500

The interstate system was created with a numbering system in mind. What numbers are given to roads that run north/south and east/west?

What is even and odd numbered roads. 

500

The Truman Doctrine was an act of containing communism for these two countries.

What are Turkey and Greece?