This singer was the first true rock and roll star.
Who is Elvis?
100
This bill made it easier for veterans to buy houses.
What is the GI Bill?
100
This decade saw a rise of the counter-cultural "hippies" who criticized the fifties lifestyle.
What is the 1960s?
100
During the Fifties, people were now able to buy this type of product.
What is consumer goods?
100
This international organization was created to stop the spread of Communism.
What is NATO?
200
These were the group of intellectuals, artists, writers, and musicians who criticized mainstream fifties society.
What is the Beatniks.
200
This man led the suburban revolution.
Who is David Levitt?
200
In the 1960s, this movement exposed the mistreatment of African-Americans in the fifties.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
200
To keep up with the expectation of luxury, Americans used this new buying tool.
What is a credit card?
200
This organization was created by the Space Act of 1958.
What is NASA?
300
The first group to seriously challenge the typical American lifestyle was centered in this community.
What is Greenwich Village?
300
This government organization made it easy for builders to construct low-cost housing.
What is the Federal Housing Administration?
300
In the 1970s, this woman promoted a "bottom-up" view of history, which looked at the lives of women and minorities rather than only white men.
Who is Shiela Rowbatham?
300
This was the term used for businesses using technology to turn farming into massive corporations.
What is agribusiness?
300
This Wisconsin senator is known for his widespread accusation of suspected Communists.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
400
This artist was known for his painting depicting the loneliness of corporate life.
Who is Edward Hooper?
400
This term was used to describe the mass migration of white families to the suburbs to avoid minorities in the city.
What is "white flight"?
400
Author of the 1990s' "The Fifties," this man presented both the negative and positive events of the 1950s.
Who is David Halberstam?
400
This street is considered the birthplace of modern advertisement.
What is Madison Avenue.
400
This organization was created to investigate Communist threats in America.
What is The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)?
500
The author of "On The Road"
Who is Jack Kerouac?
500
This magazine detailed the ideal suburban life, focusing especially on the life of a suburban housewife, describing her as the mother of four children and married at 16.
What is Life magazine?
500
This popular 1970s show on the Korean War showed the nostalgia felt at the time for the 1950s.
What is MASH?
500
In the 1958 Recession, what percentage of Americans were unemployed?
What is 7.7%?
500
This beloved children's book was banned because it was believed to promote Communism.