Do Now - Alt 50s Culture Economy

Pick the THREE best answers:

The 1957 Soviet launch of Sputnik led to:

• The start of the Space Race

• The start of the Arms Race

• A massive increase in funding for math and science education in the US

• Movement of American families to the Great Plains

• The creation of NASA

This American Cold War policy was meant to prevent a nuclear war but led to a massive build up of nuclear arms in the US and the USSR:

• Truman Doctrine

• Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)

• Homestead Act

• Containment

The widespread fear of communist revolution in the US is known as...

• The Dust Bowl

• The Great Depression

• The Roaring 20s

• The Red Scare

Why was the House Un-American Activities Committee created during the 1950s?

• To take down Harambe

• To ensure the wellness of the country

• To investigate disloyalty, and unusual behavior in citizens and employees

• To immediately respond to a Soviet nuclear threat with war.

McCarthyism was what?

• a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state.
• an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.
• a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
• The practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence.