Fun in the 50's
Rapid Reproduction
What is the Baby Boom?
HUAC
House for Un-American Activity Committee
not taking a side - like the US policy before Pearl Harbor
What is neutrality?
Arkansas students determined to attend a desegregated school
Who are the Little Rock Nine?
single largest loss of life on American soil to date
What is 9/11?
New Neighborhoods
What are Levittowns?
OPEC
What is the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries?
What is espionage?
First African American female adviser to the UN, founded a college in FL
The fear of communism infiltrating the US
What is Red Scare?
Soldier's Saving Grace
What is the GI Bill?
NAFTA
What is the North American Free Trade Agreement?
Freedom - like from slavery
What is emancipation?
groups of students on buses standing up to segregation throughout the south
Who are Freedom Riders?
The Four-Power Treaty was signed by the United States, United Kingdom, France and Japan at THIS Naval Conference in December 1921.
What is Washington?
Not hot conflict between the US & USSR
What is the Cold War?
SALT
What is Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty?
not slavery, but close - freed slaves often did this because they could not get fair paying jobs post Civil War
What is sharecropping?
He fought for collective bargaining for migrant farm workers in California.
Who is Cesar Chavez?
What are interstate highways?
This WWII General turns POTUS.
Who is Eisenhower?
NATO
What is North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
Movement of a large group - like to a big city for work
What is migration?
African American WWII fighter pilots
Who were the Tuskegee Airmen?
Controlling all means of production in business
What is a monopoly?