This conference was the first meeting between "the Big 3" in this Soviet controlled city
What is the Yalta Conference
100
The name of the line that divided Korea during the Korean War
What is the 38th Parallel
100
The significant increase in the number of babies born is referred to as this
What is the baby boom
100
The world's first artificial satellite
What is the Sputnik
200
Trial that put high-ranking Nazis on trial in the Germany
What is the Nuremberg Trials
200
American General in charge of the war effort in Korea
Who is Douglas MacArthur
200
The growth of suburbs led the federal government to design this program to help improve life in cities
What is the Urban Renewal Program
200
Developed by President Truman, this plan included a higher minimum wage, the creation of a national health insurance plan for all Americans, and expanded Social Security benefits for all the elderly
What is the Fair Deal
300
International Organization dedicated to resolving international conflicts.
What is the United Nations
300
Making aggressive accusations about communism without proof
What is McCarthyism
300
By the end of the 1950s, 90% of American households had one of these
What is a television
300
This plan offered veterans money for school as well as loans for houses, farms, and businesses also known as the Servicemen's Readjustment Act
What is the GI Bill of Rights
400
United States policy of providing aid to help foreign countries fight communism
What is the Truman Doctrine
400
Weapon that was far more powerful than the atomic bomb with a blast radius of nearly 3 miles
What is the hydrogen bomb
400
Teenagers helped power this new form of music, buying more than 70% of all records sold in the late 1950s
What is Rock 'N' Roll
400
In 1949 the United States joined this international organization, along with Iceland and Canada, to defend each other if a Soviet attack was launched
What is NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
500
Designs that sent more than $13 billion in U.S. loans and grants to Western Europe for European economic recovery between 1948-1952.
What is the Marshall Plan
500
President Eisenshower's policy of being willing to go to the brink of war to oppose communism
What is brinkmanship
500
Young people who criticized society with unusual writing styles and rebellious behaviors during the 1950s
What is a beatnik or beats
500
Leader of the Communist party in China during the Korean War