1940s and 1950s

The fear of communism spreading:

• Red Scare

• Containment

• Nativism

• Democratic Whiplash

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

• Patton

• MacArthur

• Eisenhower

• Stalin

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

• Hubble Telescope

• Gemini 2

• Apollo 11

• Sputnik

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

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

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

What did the invention of the television help spread?

• News

• Popular Culture

• Knowledge of Amendments

• Civil Rights

This allowed the US to get passed a Soviet blockade

• Berlin Wall

• Berlin Airlift

• Tanks

• Jeeps

What did Jonas Salk create that eradicated polio in America?

• Mandatory quarantining

• Cure for polio

• Polio Vaccine

• New ways to package food to stop the spread

The influence of African American music styles, such as rhythm & blues illustrated what?

• Emergence of hip hop

• Emergence of techno

• Emergence of the Kardashians

• Emergence of rock n' roll