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The period of time in the United States after WWII is called?
Postwar America
Placing to much importance on "things" money can buy is called...
Materialism
What are Civil Rights?
The rights given to all U.S. Citizens by the Constitution
the organization that began in 1945 with the hope of keeping peace in the world.
The United Nations
Eisenhower's campaign slogan
I like Ike
Russian satellite launched into space in 1957.
Sputnik
John F Kennedy was a democrat or a republican?
Democrat
The bill passed to help returning soldiers with life after the military.
The G.I. Bill
Name 3 things people wanted to buy after WWII
cars
refrigerators
televisions
radio
What laws were still in place after WWII that kept black Americans segregated from white Americans?
Jim Crow Laws
tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union came to be called
The Cold War
Eisenhower was the __ president
34th
What was the first living creature sent to space and who sent it?
A small dog sent by the Soviet Union
JFK introduced a program to help people in other countries improve their way of life. What was the program called?
The Peace Corps
Name at least two things the G.I. Bill helped returning soldiers with.
Buying a home
college
What was President Truman's new program called?
The Fair Deal
What were poll taxes?
Taxes designed to keep African Americans from voting in southern states
Giving military and economic aid to countries under communist threat was called. .
The Truman Doctrine
This allowed ships to travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes
The Saint Lawrence Seaway
The organization responsible for America's activity in space
NASA
The communist dictator in Cuba while Kennedy was in office.
Castro
what type of communities were created in response to a shortage of houses? (1 word)
Suburbs
The lowest possible wage a worker can make per hour?
minimum wage
Who was William Hastie?
African American judge appointed to the Supreme Court by Truman
The United States joined this group in 1949, an alliance between Canada, The USA, and several European nations
NATO
National Atlantic Treaty Organization
What 2 states were added to the United States under President Eisenhower
Alaska and Hawaii
The First American Astronaut in space
Alan Shepard
What was the Cuban Missile crisis
Missiles placed in Cuba by the Soviet Union that could be use to attack the USA
what do we call the generation of children born between 1946 and 1964
Baby Boomer
Truman's Fair Deal helped him when the election of 1948 True or false?
true
Who was the first African American Baseball player in the Major leagues?
Jackie Robinson
Communist dictator that came to power in China shortly after WWII.
Mao Zedong
What conflict began while Eisenhower was in office and lasted well into the 1970s?
Vietnam
The First American to orbit the earth
John Glenn
Who took office after Kennedy was assonated?
Lyndon B. Johnson
What happened to the homes and buildings in the cities and inner-city neighborhoods as suburbs developed?
Many people who lived here were poor and unable to keep up the buildings. buildings began to deteriorate and need improvement.
Give two examples of government aid programs Truman proposed.
Aid for education
Housing for the poor
Minimum Wage
This woman was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus.
Rosa Parks
Who was chosen by Truman to lead the soldiers in Korea?
General Douglas MacArthur
Who supplied military aid to North Vietnam?
China and the Soviet Union
What was the name of John Glenn's spacecraft he orbited the earth in?
Friendship 7
Where was President Kennedy laid to rest?
Arlington National Cemetery