Post-War America
This 1944 act provided numerous benefits to returning WWII veterans, including low-cost mortgages and college tuition.
What is the GI Bill?
Formed in 1949, this military alliance was created to provide collective security against the Soviet Union.
What is NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)?
This 1948-1949 crisis occurred when the Soviet Union blocked Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to Berlin.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
This new form of entertainment became widely popular in American homes during the 1950s.
What is television?
This U.S. President implemented the policy of containment and oversaw the beginning of the Cold War.
Who is Harry Truman?
This demographic phenomenon led to a significant increase in the U.S. population between 1946 and 1964.
What is the Baby Boom?
This 1947 U.S. foreign policy pledge promised American support to democratic nations under threat from authoritarian forces.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This war, lasting from 1950 to 1953, was the first major conflict of the Cold War era.
What is the Korean War?
This new genre of music, emerging in the 1950s, combined elements of R&B, country, and pop, appealing to the younger generation.
What is Rock and Roll?
This Soviet leader ruled from 1922 to 1952 and was a key figure in the early Cold War period.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
This new residential development became popular in the 1950s as middle-class families moved away from cities.
What are suburbs?
This economic assistance program, proposed by Secretary of State George Marshall, aimed to rebuild Western European economies after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
The launch of this Soviet satellite in 1957 marked the start of the space race between the U.S. and USSR.
What is Sputnik One?
These health initiatives, greatly expanded in the 1950s and 1960s, helped prevent diseases like polio and measles.
What are vaccination programs?
This U.S. President, a former general, warned about the "military-industrial complex" in his farewell address.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
Added to U.S. currency in 1957, this four-word phrase became the official motto of the United States.
What is "In God We Trust"?
This term, coined by Winston Churchill, described the ideological and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas after WWII.
What is the Iron Curtain?
his 1962 confrontation between the U.S. and Soviet Union over nuclear missiles in Cuba brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This group of entertainment industry professionals was blacklisted after refusing to testify before HUAC about their alleged involvement with the Communist Party.
Who are the Hollywood Ten?
This U.S. Senator led a campaign to root out alleged Communist infiltration of the U.S. government in the 1950s.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
This congressional body, formed before WWII, became notorious during the Cold War for its probes into suspected Communist infiltration in American society.
What is HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee)?
This military alliance was created in 1955 by the Soviet Union and other Eastern European communist countries to counterbalance NATO.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
This policy, adopted by the U.S. government, aimed to stop the spread of communism around the world.
What is the policy to contain communism?
This government agency, established in 1958, was responsible for the civilian space program and aeronautics research.
What is NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)?
This U.S. President faced the Cuban Missile Crisis and promoted the Space Race with the goal of landing on the moon.
Who is John F. Kennedy?