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the organization was created following the Second World War to prevent another such conflict.

The United Nations (U.N.)

100
officially the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, provided many benefits to veterans of World War II. It established veterans' hospitals, provided for vocational rehabilitation, made low-interest mortgages available, and granted stipends covering tuition and living expenses for veterans attending college or trade schools.
What was the GI Bill?
100
a mutual defense alliance of nations from Europe and North America. It was organized to defend member nations from the possible aggression of the Soviet Union and the nations of Eastern Europe
What was The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
100

Trashketball Bonus: This was a group of young writers, artists and poets who began to criticize the consumerism and conformity of 1950s America.

Who are the Beatniks (I would also accept the Beat Movement)

100

Who became president after the death of FDR?

Who was Harry Truman?

200
Truman asked Congress for a $400 million appropriation specifically to combat communism in Turkey and Greece. He told Congress: "It must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures . . .
What was the Truman Doctrine?
200

This was the "cute" term for one of many nuclear war drills school children experienced in the early years of the Cold War.


What is "duck and cover?"



200
A treaty establishing a mutual-defense organization composed originally of the Soviet Union and Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania.
What was the Warsaw Treaty Organization (Warsaw Pact)?
200

Trashketball Bonus: from 1946 to 1964 almost 77 million babies are born in the United States.

What was the Baby Boom?

200

This president is given credit for helping to expand the interstate highway system

Eisenhower

300

Trashketball Bonus: in July 1947, George F. Kennan defined the central goal of U.S. foreign policy during the cold war verse communism:

What was containment?

300

Trashketball Bonus: developers such as William Levitt (“Levittowns” in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania) began to buy land on the outskirts of cities and use mass production techniques to build modest, inexpensive tract houses there.

What was the Suburbs?

300

US spy planes found over the Soviet Union heightened tensions between the two countries in what became known as this.

U-2 Incident

300
this invention changes American culture, in 1946 there was 7,000 and by 1950 there was 50,000,000. It will go on to replace the radio as the primary source of home entertainment.
What was the Television?
300

Trashketball Bonus: He served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 & was responsible for the partial de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union

Krushchev

400

Trashketball Bonus: In 1948, the Russians–who wanted Berlin all for themselves–closed all highways, railroads and canals into western-occupied Berlin. They believed, would make it impossible for the people who lived there to get food or any other supplies and would eventually drive Britain, France and the U.S. out of the city for good. Instead of retreating from West Berlin, however, the U.S. and its allies decided to supply their sectors of the city from the air.

What was Berlin Airlift?

400
Since its inception in the late 1940's, this has profoundly transformed American music and is now one of the most popular musical forms in the world. Its roots is in the delta blues of the south.
What was Rock & Roll?
400

Trashketball Bonus: The Korean War and Vietnam War were examples of this type of war because the U.S. and USSR did not fight each other directly. 

Proxy War

400

This book, written by Arthur Miller was an allegory for McCarthyism and the Red Scare of the early 1950s 

The Crucible 

400
he arrived on the scene just at the right time with a sound that was unique to most white teenagers, a mix of Southern blues, country, and gospel. He was the first rock and roll star.
Who was Elvis Presley ?
500

was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961. tried to overthrow Castro

Bay of Pigs

500

Fast food and drive in establishments became popular after the growth of this industry in the 1950s

What is the automotive industry?

500

Cold War competition between u.s and Soviet Union to develop the most powerful weapons

Arms Race

500
Winston Churchill’s name for the division of Europe after WWII ended - the separation between Eastern Europe and Western Europe.
What was the Iron Curtain?
500

Trashketball Bonus: is a Cuban communist revolutionary and politician who was Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976, and President from 1976 to 2008 one-party state under Communist Party rule; the first of its kind in the western hemisphere.

Fidel Castro