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1950's Civil Rights, Culture and Cold War
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1
What is the term for buying luxury goods and services to show off?
Prosperity
Containment
Conspicuous Consumption
Communism
2
Which country was the first to put a satellite in space?
Britain
Germany
USSR
USA
3
What was held to bring the Nazi war criminals to justice?
Blitzkrieg
Nuremburg Trials
Warsaw Pact
Lebensraum
4
What was the heated war of words and build up of arms between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.?
Vietnam War
Korean War
Cold War
World War II
5
What were people in the '50's called who were considered unsatisfied with life?
Beatniks
Yippies
Hippies
Silent Generation
6
What type of music became popular in the 1950's?
R&B
Country
Classical
Rock & Roll
7
Which court case began the idea of separate but equal?
Roe v. Wade
Brown v. Board
13th Amendment
Plessy v. Ferguson
8
Which of these was NOT a fad from the 1950's?
Nintendo
Poodle Skirt
Cat in the Hat
Elvis Presley
9
What was the fear of communism called in the 1920's and the 1950's?
Containment
McCarthyism
Red Scare
Patriotism
10
Who made the "Iron Curtain" speech?
Stalin
Truman
Eisenhower
Churchill
11
What was the U.S. policy of going to the edge of all out war to stop communism?
Brinkmanship
Marshall Plan
Red Scare
Space Race
12
Who became the leader of the USSR after Stalin died?
Lenin
Hitler
Khrushchev
Truman
13
What type of protests did MLK promote?
Riots
Arsen
Peaceful
Violent
14
How long did the Cold War last?
23 years
10 years
5 years
41 years
15
What event is Rosa Parks associated with?
NASA
Nuremburg Trials
Little Rock 9
Montgomery Bus Boycott
16
Who were the students who were prevented from attending schools by the Governor of Arkansas?
Sit ins
The Sputniks
Rosenburgs
The Little Rock 9
17
What was the name of the defensive alliance of the Soviet countries?
United Nations
Warsaw Pact
NATO
Stalingrad
18
Which country was split at the 38th Parallel?
Vietnam
Japan
China
Korea
19
What was the policy of stopping the spread of communism practiced by the U.S.?
Domino Theory
Propaganda
Containment
Red Scare
20
Who was the general who wanted to drop 26 nuclear bombs during the Korean War?
MacArthur
Truman
Eisenhowr
McCarthy
21
Who was the leader of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
MLK
McCarthy
Eisenhower
Thurgood Marshall
22
Which leader was the only one of the big three to attend both Yalta and Potsdam?
Stalin
Churchill
George W. Bush
Roosevelt