Leaders
Replaced President FDR when he died
Harry S. Truman
Place where all federal laws are passed.
Washington DC
What does NATO stand for
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Dewey 'almost' defeated Truman in this year
1948
Name of foreign policy that believed that Communism would spread if not stopped.
Domino Theory
Major supreme court case which overturned 1897 Plessy V Ferguson which made segregation legal
Brown vs Board of Education 1954
Truman's policies were known as the ______________
Fair Deal
Brand new American music genre, starting in African American community
Rock and Roll
President Eisenhower's main goal was to keep _________________________ from spreading
Communism
Name of city in Arkansas that refused to segregate which resulted in President Eisenhower sending US troops to enforce Supreme Court decision
Little Rock
What space agency did D. Eisenhower establish?
NASA
Popular WWII general who was elected in 1952
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Two major developments of the Cold War which created a constant fear of catastrophic global conflict
nuclear weapons and arms race
Congress's expansion of interstate highways to enhance national defense and economic growth
Federal Highway Act of 1956
President responsible for the Federal Highway Act
Dwight D. Eisenhower
New technology that helped create a popular culture complete with westerns, newscasts, entertainment hours
television
Guerilla leader who successfully led a coup on the Cuban government. Eventually became communist and sided with USSR
Fidel Castro
site of Kennedy assassination
Dallas Texas
CIA---US spy agency
1951 Amendment that limited presidents to two terms
22nd Amendment
Conflict between 1950 and 1953, based on conflicts over communism. This war was the basis of the tv show MASH.
Korean War
Movement of people from inner cities to the suburbs is called this.
suburbanization
Youngest president ever elected, first Catholic president, and was assassinated in Dallas, Texas
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
People who could afford to moved out of the cities into these
suburbs
VP of JFK, became president in November 1963, was from Texas-took oath of office on a jet plane to Washington DC
Lyndon Baines Johnson
The Bay of Pigs invasion, an unsuccessful attempt to remove Fidel Castro as president of this country.
Cuba
JFK
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
French Indochina voted yes to communism, was split in half, and eventually ended up in this war.
Vietnam War 1955-1975
Secretary of State who was responsible for an economic aid program to help rebuild Europe to hopefully prevent Communism from spreading.
George Marshall
Name one of the larger than ever corporations that became very successful in the 1950s
General Motors
IBM
Coca-Cola
Amendment that limited the president to two terms.
22nd
Cinderella, Treasure Island, and The Story of Robin Hood were all movies produced by this company.
Disney
Leader of USSR from 1924-1953
Joseph Stalin
Famous meeting site of FDR, Churchill, and Stalin that discussed end of war
Yalta or Yalta Conference
WAC
Women's Army Corp--started by George Marshall
Country with a one party system for elections
USSR
Soviets blocked all transportation routes to the Allied controlled sections of Berlin in hopes to gain total control of Berlin
Berlin Blockade
significant growth in population from 1946-1963
Baby Boom
Role of president that gives him power over the military.
Commander in Chief
You Ain't Nothing but a Hound Dog was a top hit by this King of Rock and Roll
Elvis Presley
Soviet Leader during Cuban Missile Crisis and during launch of Sputnik
Nikita Kruschev 1953-1964
US and other countries broke the Soviet blockade by dropping supplies in Berlin by Air
Berlin Airlift or Berlin Blockade
UN
United Nations
Wisconsin senator who was responsible to this dark period of distrust and loss of civil rights for anyone related to communism
Joseph McCarthy
Walter McCarron Act made sweeping changes on US policy of _____________________
Immigration
The Baby Boom led to a cultural movement that focused on the __________________.
family
The power to declare war and fix budgets for military expenditures is in this branch of government.
Legislative
The name of the president when Mrs. Ellenbecker was born.
Eisenhower