This is the term used to explain the population explosion in the 1950's.
What is baby boom?
100
The leader of Cuba during the Cold War (and beyond).
Who is Fidel Castro?
100
Leader of North Vietnam and leader of South Vietnam at the start of U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
Who is Ho Chi Minh and Ngo Dinh Diem?
200
This plan gave about $13 billion in grants and loans to nations in Western Europe, in part, to persuade them to be democratic.
What is Marshall Plan?
200
This is the two word phrase to describe the exodus of one race out of urban centers in the 1950's and 1960's.
What is "white flight"?
200
The crisis in which the United States set up a blockade around the island of Cuba.
What is Cuban Missile Crisis?
200
This event (that might not have even happened) led to the United States dramatically increasing their involvement in Vietnam.
What is Gulf of Tonkin incident?
300
Churchill called the imaginary line between east and west Europe this...
What is the iron curtain?
300
This Act authorized funds to build 41,000 miles of highway consisting of multi-lane expressways that would connect the nation's major cities.
What is Interstate Highway Act?
300
The invasion of Cuba by CIA trained Cuban exiles used as an attempt to overthrow Castro and start a democratic revolution in Cuba.
What is Bay of Pigs invasion?
300
The guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam.
What is Vietcong?
400
This became a catchphrase for extreme, reckless charges during the early 1950s.
What is McCarthyism?
400
To help returning soldiers deal with their worries of returning home to domestic problems (lack of education and jobs) the federal government passed this.
What is the GI Bill of Rights?
400
This president gave the order to carry out the invasion of Cuba.
Who is President Kennedy?
400
President Nixon said that this strategy would lead to "peace with honor" in Vietnam.
What is "Vietnamization"?
500
These two "spy's" were given the electric chair for passing secrets to the Soviets.
What is Julius (spy) and Ethel (probably not a spy) Rosenberg?
500
These were the famous cookie-cutter suburbs that were mass produced in the Northeast.
What is Levittowns?
500
This man was the leader of the Soviet Union during all of the United States' Cuban fiasco's.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
500
Name three specific things that fueled the fire of the anti-war movement.
What is Kent State, Jackson State, draft, AA casualty rates, Pentagon Papers, My Lai massacre, Tet Offensive, "credibility gap."