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1950s Cold War & Popular Culture #ushistory
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Name of the couple accused and executed for espionage in 1953?
Kardashians
Rosenbergs
Moldy Ringworm
2
What replaced the radio in the 1950s?
TV
the Internet
Telegrams
Morse Code
3
"I like _______"
Kennedy
Nixon
Ike
Johnson
4
Book by Arthur Miller comparing the Salem witch trials to the McCarthy hearings
16 Candles
Catch 22
The Crucible
Animal House
5
Russian name for Soviet concentration camps
Gulags
Crow Bar Hotel
The Clink
6
President of the U.S. at the end of the Korean War (Elected 1952)
Eisenhower
Kennedy
FDR
Truman
7
Truman’s policy to prevent the spread of Communism was called what?
Edwardian Culture
Containment
Utopianism
Social Darwinism
8
"I love ______"
Jay Leno
Colbert
Saturday Night Live
Lucy
9
Military alliance developed in 1955 by the Soviets and their satellites
NATO
European Union
Warsaw Pact
10
He developed a polio vaccine
Rajesh Ramayan "Raj" Koothrappali
Jonas Salk
Leonard Hofstadter
Sheldon Cooper
11
Gave WWII veterans many benefits
Medicaid
Obamacare
Medicare
GI bill of rights
12
1948 Truman authorizes planes to fly over E. Germany & drop supplies into the capital city
Cuban Quarantine
Berlin Airlift
the Roswell Incident
U2 Incident
13
Name of the drill practiced by students at school to protect themselves from the Atomicbomb
Duck n Cover
Stop, Drop, and Roll
Run Away!
14
Soviet Leader who called off a conference w/ IKE in '60 when a US spy plane plane was shot down
Breshnev
Khrushchev
Lenin
Stalin
15
Popular T.V. hero of the 1950s
Batman
Lone Ranger
Oprah
Malcolm "Mal" Reynolds
16
Name the $13Billion in aid to European nations for economic recovery after WWII?
New Jersey Plan
Marshall Plan
Quarantine Plan
Virginia Plan
17
Leader of U.N. troops in Korea until 1951 when fired by Truman
Lee
Grant
Patton
MacArthur
18
The US Govt. encouraged citizens to construct one of these during the Cold War in the 1950s
Bomb Shelter
Indoor Plumbing
Solar Panels
Tree Fort
19
President of the U.S. at the beginning of the Korean War
FDR
Kennedy
Eisenhower
Truman
20
Home-- to the middle class
Skyscrapers
Shepley
Inner Cities
Suburbs
21
American Population increase of the 1950s
boom box
baby boom
sonic boom
22
What did parents refer to as the “devils music” in the 1950’s?
Rap
Rock n’ Roll
Waltz
Country
23
Soviet satellite launched into space in 1957
Mars Rover
Viking
Sputnik
Explorer I
24
The party owns & controls property & the means of production/ makes all decisions
Agnosticism
Absolute Monarchy
Communism
Populism
25
One of the first rock n' roll hits (by Bill Haley and the Comets)
Rock Around the Clokc
Time To Say Goodbye
Bad Blood
We Dance Again
26
1950s movie blockbuster ( with a Biblical theme)
Superman
Ten Commandments
Noah
Planet of the Apes
27
Capital of South Korea: UN recaptured after the invasion at Inchon
Panmujoun
Seoul
Peking
Hong Kong
28
The entry of this country into the war in late 1950 ruined the US plan for victory
North Vietnam
China
Cuba
Soviet Union
29
Military alliance developed in 1949 to fight the spread of Communism
USSR
NATO
Warsaw Pact
30
Govt Act in 1956 that spent millions of $ on construction of highways across the US
Highway Act
Medicaid
Obamacare
Medicare
31
The parallel or line of latitude at which Korea was divided after WWII
38th
Arctic Circle
17th
Equator
32
Famous 1950s Rock and Roll singer from Mississippi
Elvis Presley
Paul McCartney
Jim Morrison
Tom Petty
33
The 1947 doctrine in which the Pres. pledged that the US would help people maintain freedom
Versailles
Yalta
Eisenhower Doctrine
Truman Doctrine
34
Name of the cartoon turtle used to demonstrate a technique ofprotection against the A-bomb
Michelangelo
Theodore
Bert
MiSHELL
35
Term which refers to the uneasy peace betw. the US and USSR
War of the Five Clans
War of Terror
Cold War
War on Drugs
36
In the 1950s many people left rural America and moved where?
Ghettos
Bowler
Inner Cities
Suburbs
37
Who was the most famous voice of communist conspiracies during this time/ WI Senator?
Joseph McCarthy
Richard Nixon
Jim Doyle
Scott Walker
38
Phrase coined by Churchill to describe Soviet policy in Europe
Steel Wheels
Steel Wall
Iron Curtain
Berlin Blockade