Postwar America
Civil Rights
Cold War
Korea & Communism
Eisenhower Era
Space Race & Culture
100
The time period in the U.S. after World War II
Post war America
100
The rights given to all U.S. citizens by the Constitution
Civil Rights
100
Tension between the United States and the Soviet Union
Cold War
100
The war that began when North Korea invaded South Korea
The Korean War
100
President elected in 1952 and a war hero
Dwight Eisenhower
100
Competition between U.S. and Soviet Union to explore space
Space Race
200
This bill helped returning soldiers pay for college or buy homes
G.I. Bill
200
Laws that enforced segregation in the South
Jim Crow Laws
200
Policy of helping nations fight Communism
Truman Doctrine
200
General who commanded UN forces in Korea
General Douglas MacArthur
200
Waterway connecting Atlantic Ocean to Great Lakes
St. Lawrence Seaway
200
First American astronaut to travel into space
Alan Shepard
300
Groups of houses located near a city
Suburbs
300
First African American player in Major League Baseball
Jackie Robinson
300
Alliance formed between the U.S. and other nations
NATO
300
Truman feared this if the Korean War expanded into China
World War 3
300
Law that created the interstate highway system
Federal Aid Highway Act
300
America’s space agency
NASA
400
The generation born between 1946 and 1964
Baby Boomers
400
Supreme Court case that ended school segregation
Brown v Board of Education
400
Country that wanted to spread Communism after WWII
Soviet Union
400
Boundary line between North and South Korea
38th parallel
400
Event in Little Rock, Arkansas involving black students
Attempted integration of all-white school
400
First American program to send astronauts into space
Project Mercury
500
Placing too much importance on material possessions
materialism
500
Protest that followed Rosa Parks’ arrest
Bus Boycott
500
Senator who accused many Americans of being Communists
Joseph McCarthy
500
Country that supported Communist North Korea
China
500
Eisenhower sent these to protect students in Little Rock
Federal Agents
500
Evangelist who preached to large crowds across the U.S.
Billy Graham
600
Truman’s program to expand government aid
Fair Deal
600
Leader of the civil rights movement who believed in peaceful protest
Martin Luther King Jr.
600
Americans feared this spreading throughout the world
Communism
600
How the Korean War ended
armistice
600
Two states added to the U.S. in 1959
Alaska and Hawaii
600
Popular music style that emerged during the 1950s
Rock "n" Roll