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Presidents
50's Culture
Key Terms
Red Scare
Cold War
100
President of the US at the end of WWII
Harry Truman
100
Name for the increase in children being born
Baby Boom
100
The practice of seeking shelter during a nuclear attack
Duck and Cover
100
Senator from Wisconsin who claimed the US government was full of Russian spies
Joseph McCarthy
100
Doctrine to help support free countries resisting communism (Greece)
Truman Doctine
200
Premier and leader of the Soviet Union after Stalin Died
Nikita Khrushchev


200
Name of the builder who built more than 150 house a week in 1949
William Levitt
200
Created in response to Sputnik
National Aeronautic and Space Administration NASA
200
Russian satellite 
Sputnik


200
Plan to help economies in Europe recover from the war and resist communism.
Marshall Plan
300
President during the Cuban Missile Crisis
John F. Kennedy
300
Factory workers in the 1950's decreased by 4.5% due to this
Automation (Machines in the workplace)
300
Types of secret missions created by the CIA
Covert Operations
300
Captain of a U-2 spy plane shot down over Russia
Gary Powers
300
The cutting off of supplies to West Berlin by the Russians.
Berlin Crisis.  
400
Leader who gave the Iron Curtain Speech in Fulton, Missouri
Winston Churchill
400
Largest public works project in American History 
Interstate Highway Act
400
Word that mean "on the verge of war"
Brinkmanship
400
Unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Fidel Castro
Bay of Pigs
400
Western nations forming a treaty in order to coordinate a defense against Russia
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
500
Elected President of the US in 1952
Dwight Eisenhower 
500
TV promoted traditions values.  What was Superman's slogan?
Truth, Justice, and the American Way!
500
Foreign Policy meant to keep communism in one location
Containment 
500
Crisis* Russian missiles in Cuba
Cuban Missile Crises
500
Organization of Communist states in Central and Eastern Europe
Warsaw Pack