Levittown is an example of the growth of new communities called ___________.

All of the following were policies followed by President Eisenhower (in the 1952 Pres. campaign) EXCEPT...

The Red Scare of the 1950's was named after this Senator, who gave a speech that he had a list of 205 members of the government who were communist sympathizers.

Senator McCarthy gave a speech that he had a list of 205 members of the government who were communist sympathizers. He made many, often reckless, accusations and increased hysteria of the ________________. Also known as McCarthyism.

FBI director J. Edgar Hoover strengthened this and tasked it with holding public hearings to investigate anyone suspected of subversion or Communist sympathies

What does this source mean "To Patronize REDS"?

After the botched CIA Bay of Pigs invasion, tension between the US & Communist Cuba under Castro escalates → nuclear missiles spotted in Cuba and after a tense standoff and US-imposed quarantine, the USSR agrees to remove missiles from Cuba & US removes missiles from Turkey.

Closest we've ever been to nuclear war!

What is this speech about?

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia, all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in many cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow.

What is this speech about?

"At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life...I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures...I believe that our help should be primarily through economic and financial aid which is essential to economic stability and orderly political processes."

What does this map show?

_____________ hand-in-hand with containment policy: if one country falls to Communism, all are at risk of falling

How did the Korean war end? (why we finally removed troops)

Where was KOREA divided?

Became popular in the 1950s. They rejected all forms of convention: they shunned traditional jobs and the materialism of American life and studied Eastern religions, such as Hinduism and Buddhism.

(Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry & Elvis) was a new style of music that teenagers embraced. Radios & record players were cheap enough for teens to buy on their own.

True/False- Baby boomer teens CONFORMED with everything their parents believed in.

This group was famously 'blacklisted' from gaining any new jobs or roles in their industry because they refused to testify about communist involve in front of Congress.

CONSUMERISM (of the 1950s) means...

Which characterizes women in the 1950's?

Which of the following LIMITED the power of labor unions in the 1950's?