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Post WW II
1950's Politics
1950's Culture
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100
He was the US President the authorized the use on atomic weapons against the Japanese
Who is Truman?
100
Man who succeeds Truman as president.
Who is Eisenhower?
100
Musician that cause a stir with his hips.
Who is Elvis?
100
Gov.'t agency that becomes know as America's "spy agency".
What is the CIA?
200
The leader of Communist China
Who is Mao?
200
The search for communist among the American population.
What is the Red Scare?
200
A 1950's sitcom.
Multiple answers
200
Two new states added
What are Alaska and Hawaii?
300
Conference that set up what post WW II would look like and created the United Nations.
What is the Yalta Conference?
300
Senator that led the search for communists among the American population.
Who is McCarthy?
300
A new place to watch movies
What is the drive-in?
300
Developed the idea of communism (decades before).
Who is Marx?
400
the first aggressive act by the Soviets that signified the start of the Cold War.
What is the Berlin Blockade?
400
The four countries at the Yalta Conference.
What are the US, USSR, Great Britain, and France?
400
The music created in the 1950's?
What is rock n' roll?
400
Term that described the border between communist and non-communist countries IN EUROPE.
What is the Iron Curtain?
500
The other name for the Truman Doctrine.
What is "containment"?
500
Low interest loans for schooling and housing made to WW II veterans.
What is the GI Bill?
500
Invention that reached out to millions of Americans, right in their homes.
What is television?
500
Succeeded Stalin as leader of the Soviet Union.
Who is Krushchev?