THIS offered military veterans money to go to college, buy homes, and start businesses. Very important for stimulating the economy.
What is the G.I. Bill?
100
THIS new technology would become the most popular form of mass media during the 1950s. By 1957, 80% of American families owned at least one.
What is the television?
100
THIS was American diplomat George Kennan's proposal for how to defeat Soviet communism, which would not even require (actual) war and would allow communism to collapse, in time, of its own accord.
What is the containment of communist expansion—the policy of containment.
100
THIS was the dividing line between Communist North Korea and non-Communist South Korea after WWII.
What is the 38th parallel?
100
THIS was Eisenhower's major policy for containing communism, which relied on keeping the peace through threatening nuclear war.
What is massive retaliation/brinkmanship?
200
Increasing mechanization of farm and factory work led to the rapid growth of THIS KIND of work in the postwar period.
What are white-collar jobs?
200
THIS new musical style contributed to the rise of a new 'youth culture' as well as a worrying 'generation gap.'
What is rock 'n' roll?
200
Threats of communist takeovers in (1) THESE TWO countries in 1947 (in southeastern Europe) led to a new US policy whereby we promised aid to any people willing to fight the spread of communism, which became known as the (2) __________ ___________.
What is (1) Greece and Turkey, and (2) the Truman Doctrine?
200
The Americans turned the tide of the Korean War when General MacArthur invaded THIS port city behind North Korean enemy lines.
What is Inchon?
200
THIS was the term Eisenhower used to warn Americans about a potentially dangerous emerging relationship between the military and the defense industry.
What is the military-industrial complex?
300
THIS TREND lasted from 1945 to 1961 and would place unique strains on American society for several generations.
What is the baby boom?
300
The ___________ were the socially deviant "weirdos" of the 1950s, who rejected mainstream American culture as too materialistic, conformist, and spiritually empty.
Who are the beatniks?
300
The Americans proposed THIS European Recovery Program, in which we offered billions of dollars in aid to any European nation that wanted it, as a way to make communism less attractive in Europe.
What is the Marshall Plan?
300
General MacArthur criticized President Truman because Truman refused him permission to do (1) THIS ; so President Truman did (2) THIS to MacArthur.
What is (1) bomb China with atomic weapons; (2) fired MacArthur?
300
THIS was the term for JFK's military containment policy, which aimed to give him a broad range of military response options, including conventional armed forces, nuclear weapons, and Special Forces ("Green Berets").
What is "flexible response?"
400
Most Americans wanted to live in THESE cookie-cutter, mass-produced residential communities because they were seen as safe, family-friendly, and communally solidary.
What is suburbia/the suburbs?
400
The development of THIS system had an enormous impact on American society by increasing the nation's connectedness, influencing the location of the suburbs, transforming the way economic goods are transported, and increasing our reliance on foreign oil.
What is the interstate highway system?
400
The Soviet decision to blockade West Berlin from getting access to West Germany led Truman to devise THIS 11-month long heroic operation.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
400
The discovery that the Soviets had a large spy network inside the United States led to (1) THIS era, where HUAC and the FBI director (2) __ _________ ___________ searched for Communists throughout US society.
What is (1) the Red Scare, (2) J. Edgar Hooover?
400
The (1) ______ of __________ Invasion was a CIA-orchestrated attempt to overthrow (2) ________ _________, but it failed miserably and embarrassed the US and JFK.
What is (1) Bay of Pigs Invasion, (2) Fidel Castro?
500
Identify TWO key advances in medicine made in the 1950s.
What are (1) radiation and chemotherapy; (2) CPR; (3) artificial heart valves and pacemakers; (4) antibiotics for tuberculosis; (5) vaccine for polio?
500
________ __________ was the musical hero of the 1950s, and ____________, Tennessee was a hub of new creative music, where _______ Studios and _________ Records signed artists and produced good music.
(1) Elvis Presley; (2) Memphis; (3) Sun Studios; (4) Stax Records
500
(1) THIS mutual defense military alliance of mostly Western European nations was historic in that the United States decided to join it, and (2) THIS was the Soviet counterpart to it.
What is (1) NATO and (2) the Warsaw Pact?
500
The most famous outed spies of this era were former US diplomat Alger ________, and New York couple Julius and Ethel ____________.
Who are Alger Hiss; Rosenberg?
500
In October 1962, U-2 spy planes discovered (1) THESE in Cuba, which led to thirteen days of crisis between the US and Soviets. It was resolved when (2) THIS agreement was reached.
What is (1) Soviet nuclear missiles; (2) the Soviets agree to remove the nuclear missiles in exchange for a guarantee that the US will not invade Cuba. (We also secretly agreed to remove our nuclear Jupiter missiles from Turkey.)