Living With
The Bomb
The Bomb
What is fallout?
Radioactive particles dispersed by a nuclear explosion.
What time period had many medical breakthroughs?
The 1950s.
Who won the election of 1960?
John F. Kennedy.
What percent of families owned a TV by 1957?
80%.
A greater demand for goods led to what?
Higher Prices.
Americans feared a surprise nuclear attack from who?
The Soviets.
A record of 58,000 cases of this disease were reported in 1952.
Polio.
What two presidents were running against each other for the 1960 presidential election?
Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.
What audience did radio have that television didn't?
People travelling in cars.
People started going on strike as what rose?
The cost of living.
Drill created in case of nuclear attack.
Duck and cover drills.
Cancer patients started getting better treatment from what?
Radiation treatments and chemotherapy.
This presidential debate was the first one to be what?
Televised.
Between 1948-1957 what form of media doubled?
Radio stations.
What is the closed shop?
The practice of forcing business owners to hire only union members.
In the 1950s where would the U.S. perform nuclear tests?
At a site in Nevada northwest of Las Vegas.
This highly contagious lung disease had a cure by 1956.
Tuberculosis.
What month was the election?
September 26, 1960.
What type of music was created by a new generation of whites and African American musicians ?
Rock n' roll.
What group of people were asked to leave jobs?
Women.
Exports noted for every person killed by nuclear blast how many would die from fallout?
4.
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation which is known as what, developed in 1950.
CPR.
Were the two candidate's views on key issues different or similar?
They were very similar.
Who became a popular rock n' roll musician in 1956?
Elvis Presley.
By 1952 how many more married women were working outside the home?
2 million.