Cold War Heats Up
This nation and peninsula was divided at the 38th Parallel and resulted in a 3-year long war
Where is Korea?
This became the most popular medium for news and entertainment during the 1950s
What is television?
Many consider her refusal to give up her seat on a bus as the start of the Civil Rights Movement
Who is Rosa Parks?
Klaus Fuchs and the Rosenbergs were found guilty of spying related to this specific project or top secret information
What is the atomic bomb (or Manhattan Project)?
This individual held power in China from 1943 to 1976 after winning the Civil War and creating the People's Republic
Who is Mao Zedong?
Based on his military experience, President Eisenhower believed this would help the United States grow in 1956, but also saw it as necessary for defense of the homefront
What is the Interstate Highway System?
The United States airlifted tons of supplies when the Soviet Union blockaded this city in 1948
Where is Berlin?
Young people preferred this type of music style or genre as exemplified by Elvis Presley
What is Rock 'n' Roll?
He became the first black athlete to play in Major League Baseball in 1947
Who is Jackie Robinson?
The Soviets launched the first satellite into space spurring the US to invest in education programs at home to not fall behind. That satellite in 1957 was known by this name
What is Sputnik?
In 1959 this individual overthrew the government of Cuba, setting up a communist dictatorship in the US' "backyard"
Who is Fidel Castro?
The first credit card issued in the United States
What is the Diners Club?
When the Communists won the Chinese civil war, Chiang Kai-Shek and the Nationalists set up a government here
Where is Taiwan?
The largest generation in American history came into existence between 1945 and 1964
Who are the Baby Boomers?
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was led by this young charismatic local Baptist preacher
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
Gary Powers was shot down and captured while spying on the Russians flying this type of plane
What is a U-2?
This family has been the ruling dynasty of North Korea since 1950
Who are the Kims?
The essence of the Truman Doctrine focused on using this to fight Communism
What is money?
For 13 days in October of 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union (Russia) stood on the brink of war in this CRISIS
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Exemplified by the literary movement inspired by Allen Ginsberg's "Howl", this became the counterculture movement of the 1950s
Who are Beatniks, or what is the Beat Generation?
This Supreme Court decision determined that school segregation was unconstitutional in 1954
What is Brown v Board of Education of Topeka?
National Security Council Paper #68, written by diplomat George Kenan, articulated this U.S. strategy against the spread of communism
What is Containment Policy?
This Soviet leader was known as "The Man of Steel"
Who was Joe Stalin?
Winston Churchill compared the split of western and eastern Europe to this during a speech in Fulton, Missouri in 1946
What is an Iron Curtain?
The U.N. divided this nation at the 17th Parallel in 1945 when the French began to lose control of their East Asian colony
Where is Vietnam?
Many Americans used the GI Bill to find affordable housing, leaving the cities for the suburbs, in designed neighborhoods by this family
Who are the Levitts (Levittowns)?
President Eisenhower sent the U.S. Army to escort nine black students safely into this Arkansas high school (full name) in 1957
What is Little Rock Central High School?
China and the Soviet Union boycotted this organization in protest over which China would be recognized as the official China
What is the United Nations (UN)?
This Soviet leader was in charge from 1953 to 1964, creating tension for Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy, especially when he announced "We will bury you"
Who is (Nikita) Khrushchev?
This nation is the U.S.'s main ally in the Middle East, receiving more aid than any other nation dating back to 1948, and is also a primary reason we are targets for Jihadist terror attacks
What is Israel?