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CIA in Iran and Cuba
By the Numbers
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1950's Oddities
Postwar Economy
100
The CIA's first attempt to overthrow a government took place in this country:
What is Iran?
100
This many new homes were built during the 1950's in the U. S.:
What is 13 million?
100
Developing countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America were called this.
What is emerging nations?
100
This kind of "drive-in" entertainment place was popular in the 1950's:
What were drive-in movie theaters?
100
This government program enabled veterans of WWII to go to college, buy houses, and start businesses?
What is the GI Bill?
200
The Soviet Union tried to place these in Cuba to threaten the U. S.:
What is nuclear missiles?
200
By 1960, this percentage of American families owned a car:
What is 75?
200
When a country declares that resources, like oil, belong to it, and not a foreign company, that is called this.
What is nationalization?
200
This new word entered the English language to describe residential areas that were neither rural or urban:
What is suburbs?
200
This was the fastest growing industry in the postwar U. S.:
What is advertising?
300
This man became the sole ruler of Iran after Mohammed Mossadeg was overthrown:
Who is Reza Shah Pahlavi or the Shah of Iran?
300
This many new nations "emerged" between 1946 and 1960 in the world.
What is 37?
300
Dismantling the huge United States war machine after WWII was called this:
What is demobilization?
300
Automobiles in the 1950s featured this useless adornment leading to the back tail lights:
What are fins?
300
During the 1950's the size of farms got bigger and the total number of U. S. farms changed in this way:
What is decreased in number, fewer farms?
400
This was the site of a failed U. S. backed invasion of Cuba aimed at overthrowing Fidel Castro:
What is the Bay of Pigs?
400
The CIA grew rapidly in the 1950's. In 1949 the CIA had 300 employees, but by 1952 it had this many:
What is 6,000?
400
Business companies that have holdings in several unrelated industries were called this:
What are conglomerates?
400
An extreme action by CIA agents to get rid of "troublesome" world leaders was to do this to them:
What is assassinate them?
400
This many miles of federal highways were built through The Highway Act of 1956:
What is 40,000 miles?
500
This American CIA agent led the revolt that toppled Mohammed Mossadeg from power and restored American and British control of Iran's oil:
Who is Kermit (Kim) Roosevelt, President Theodore Roosevelt's grandson?
500
By the 1950's, the U. S. controlled this many billion dollars of Latin American wealth:
What is $7 billion?
500
CIA secret missions were called this:
What is covert operations?
500
In every year of the 1950s, 1 in 5 Americans did this:
What is changed residences?
500
American automakers sold this many cars in the 1950's:
What is 58 million?