1950s

•“long, hot summers”
•Freedom Summer
•Greensboro sit-ins
•U-2 incident
•Détente 

• 1960s
• 1950s
• 1970s
• 1940s

When a country chose to remain neutral and out of the affairs of other countries

• Isolationism
• Propaganda
• Appeasement
• Rationing

—  Took over after death of FDR.
Approved the dropping of atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima (on August 6) and Nagasaki (on August 9). 

• President Truman
• George C. Marshall
• President Eisenhower
• Prime Minister Winston Churchill

trying to kill an entire group or race of people

• D-Day
• Executive Order 9066
• Genocide
• Rationing

These became a status symbol in the 1950s as new models emerged annually.  The rise of the suburbs also heavily impacted their significance.

• Television
• Drive-in Movie Theaters
• Radios
• Cars

Which of following accurately describes the expected role of women in the 1950s?

• Politically Active 
• Happy Housewife
• Majority Income Earner
• Single Mothers

Dramatic increase in birth rate, especially in the years following WWII. This was due to so many people working and making a better living.

• Baby Boom ­

• Baby Gap

• GI Bill

• Transistor

Beatnik

• an elderly person in the 1920s who suffered financial loss.

• the fact or process of converting someone or something back to a former state.

• ­ a young person in the 1950s and early 1960s belonging to a subculture associated with the beat generation.

• This was a type of music which challenged earlier music and was popular to teenagers.

He mass produced houses: one model, interchangeable parts, and affordable to the middle class

• Henry Ford

• William Levitt

• Alfred Kinsey

• Richard Nixon

Much of the consumerism in the 1950s was funded through credit card debt

• True

• False