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1940s and 1950s

Authored by Chris Taylor

Social Studies, History

9th - 12th Grade

50 Questions

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1940s and 1950s
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The fear of communism spreading:

Red Scare

Containment

Nativism

Democratic Whiplash

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Although he won many military achievements, Truman fired this general during the Korean War:

Patton

MacArthur

Eisenhower

Stalin

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

In 1957, the USSR successfully launched this satellite into space:

Hubble Telescope

Gemini 2

Apollo 11

Sputnik

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who was the 1st person from the United States to travel to space and successfully return to Earth?

John Glenn

Yuri Gagarin

Neal Armstrong

Alan Shepherd

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which married couple was accused, tried, and executed for selling nuclear secrets to the USSR?

Fred and Wilma Flintstone

George and Jane Jetson

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

In 1956, John Dulles said the U.S. was willing to risk war in order to state our interests/goals. What did the U.S. call this policy of pushing close to the edge of war?

Space Race

Brinkmanship

Containment

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Media Image

What did the invention of the television help spread?

News

Popular Culture

Knowledge of Amendments

Civil Rights

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