The name of the satellite Russia launched that started the space race.
Sputnik
100
Truman's initial policy towards communism.
containment
100
Eisenhower signed this act in case cities needed to be evacuated from a nuclear war.
Highway Act of 1956
100
Families left the cities for the _______.
suburbs
100
The "keeping up with the ______" mentality inspired a time of consumerism in the 1950's.
Joneses
200
The first satellite launched by the United States.
Explorer 1
200
This event was a turning point in the Cold War, which caused for major military action in Asia.
Korean War
200
Eisenhower's strategy of using the nuclear threat to maintain peace was known as ______ because it brought the United States to the brink of war.
Brinksmanship
200
In the 1950s, Americans began spending on new consumer goods primarily because they had more _______ ________ than ever before.
disposable income
200
What was the iron curtain?
Dividing line between the Eastern European communist countries, and democratic countries of the west.
300
Who was the first man on the moon?
Neil Armstrong
300
Truman had to fire this general because of a disagreement over the use of atomic weapons.
Douglas MacArthur
300
By the time President Eisenhower ran for a second term in 1956, the nation had successfully shifted back to a ___________ economy.
peacetime
300
School enrollment increased by 13 million in the 1950s, when this group began entering the education system.
Baby Boomers
300
At this conference in February of 1945, Allied leaders agreed to divide Germany into 4 zones.
Yalta Conference
400
What was the Apollo-Soyuz Rendezvous?
first joint space mission between USSR and USA
400
The Red Scare in America allowed for this man to rise up and "bully" people in order to find communists in the country.
Joe McCarthy
400
The Federal Highway Act of 1956 provided for the construction of the interstate highway system, and exemplified President Eisenhower's policy of __________ ___________
dynamic conservation
400
Due to the Bracero Program, the nation witnessed a sharp rise during the 1940's and 1950's in the number of immigrants from what country?
Mexico
400
This bill allowed for thousands of veterans to be able to go to college and own a home.
GI Bill
500
What does NASA stand for?
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
500
After much of his domestic legislation was defeated, President Truman criticized the majority Republican Congress by calling them this.
"Do-Nothing Congress"
500
President Eisenhower used this term to refer to federal aid to business.
"creeping socialism"
500
During the 1950s, new tests, treatment, and vaccines were developed to control two diseases that had terrorized Americans, tuberculosis and ________
polio
500
As a result of NATO allowing West Germany to rearm and join their organization, the Soviet Union created this pact to unify their countries.