1950sTest Review

Organize each of the vocabulary words by determining if it happened domestically (at home) or foreign (overseas)

Groups:

(a) Foreign

,

(b) Domestic

• Rock and Roll

• Domino Theory

• Truman Doctrine

• Sputnik (1957)

• NATO

• Berlin Airlift

• Korean War

• McCarthyism

• Baby Boom

• House of Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

• Iron Curtain

• Consumerism

• Marshall Plan

• Containment

• Beat Generation

• GI Bill (Servicemen's Readjustment Act)

Select all of the following words that are America's response to communism AT HOME. (Three TOTAL)

• Red Scare

• HUAC

• McCarthyism

• Containment

• Berlin Airlift

Select all of the words that are America's response to communism ABROAD (Foreign policy) THREE TOTAL

• Marshall Plan

• Truman Doctrine

• Korean War

• Levittown

• GI Bill

Select all of the words that are EFFECTS of American Prosperity (THREE TOTAL) during the 1950s

• Consumerism

• Automobile

• Baby boom

• Servicemen's Readjustment Act

• NASA

The United States and Soviet Union entered into a​ (a)   after the Soviet Union launched a satellite, ​ (b)   to orbit the earth in ​ (c)  

• Space Race
• Sputnik
• 1957
• 1945
• Cold War
• H-Bomb

Select the countries that received military and financial aid from the United States under the Truman Doctrine (TWO)

Match the following items from the 1920s to their equivalent in the 1950s

• GI Bill & Baby Boom

• Post World War I Economy

• Beatniks

• The Lost Generation

• Rock n Roll

• Jazz

• HUAC & McCarthyism

• Palmer Raids

Match each of images with the best term.

b

d

e

f

c

a

Domino Theory

Marshall Plan

Sputnik

Beatniks

Rock n Roll

Interstate Highway System of 1956

Correctly place the CAUSES and EFFECTS of American Prosperity of the 1950s​ ​

d

e

f

c

b

a

Baby Boom

Labor saving home technology

Shift from Blue Collar to White Collar

Servicemen's Readjustment Act

Malls

Automobiles & Suburbia

After World War II, the United States government was concerned about the men returning home from war with no jobs, so they created the ​ (a)   . This was created to provide college tuition, on the job training and ​ (b)   to veterans. As a result, the United States workforce shifted from production of goods to the ​ (c)   . Along with the shift in workforce, Americans will use the prosperity of the 1950s to move to the ​ (d)   . However, it is important to recognize that not all veterans or Americans benefitted from the GI Bill and prosperity. With new highway systems bypassing cities and cutting through neighborhoods, ​ (e)   with little political influence will be left behind.

• GI Bill
• Veterans Assistance Program
• home loans
• service industry
• suburbs
• minorities
• women