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1
The "king" of rock and roll?
Elvis Presley
James Brown
Prince
Ray Charles
2
What 1950's show had young people dancing to popular music?
American Bandstand
Soul Train
Leave it to Beaver
Solid Gold
3
A treaty between US and USSR limited the use of?
Nuclear weapons
Fossil Fuel
Plastics
Diplomacy
4
The first computers were made out of thousands of?
Transistors
Vacuum tubes
Vacuum Cleaner
Hard drives
5
What did we test our first H-Bomb on?
Japan
A farm
An island
USSR
6
Who taught us to "Duck & Cover"?
Bert
Belinda
Ben
Timmy
7
What was the main type of plane built to deliver a nuclear bomb?
Boeing 737
B-29
B-52
F-16
8
What 5 nations attacked Israel?
China, Cuba, USSR, East Germany, & Albania
Egypt, Jordan Lebanon, Iran, & Syria
Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, & Syria
Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, & Syria
9
According to the 22nd Amendment what is the maximum years a president can serve?
10 years
12 years
4 years
8 years
10
What did the USSR's 2nd satellite carry?
A dog
An Astronaut
A monkey
A Cosmonaut
11
Who was a U-2 pilot who was convicted as a spy?
Julius Rosenberg
Alger Hiss
Gary Powers
Austin Powers
12
Writer who inspired the "beatnik" generation and went after the middle class consumerism?
Kerouac
Dewey
Blake
Rowling
13
Built in the 1950's to link our country, the _____________________ was a $25 billion dollar public works program.
Transcontinental Railroad
Juvenile Rehab Program
Interstate Highway System
National Healthcare Act
14
What was the name of the alliance the USSR formed for them and their friends
Moscow PACT
NATO
Perestroika
Warsaw Pact
15
What were you encouraged to build in case of a nuclear attack?
Block Houses
Tomb
Nothing:, just Duck and Cover and you will be fine.
Bomb Shelter
16
A planned community?
NASA
Project
Levitttown
Housing Plan
17
Who ran as Ike's VP?
John Foster Dulles
Richard Nixon
Adalai Stevenson
JFK
18
The #1 t.v. show of the 1950's that featured a "redhead"?
Andy Griffith
Dragnet
I Love Lucy
The Lone Ranger
19
What is a summit?
A meeting of leaders
The highest point on a mountain
An Inn
A party
20
Why did Truman give the go ahead to build the atomic bomb even though many scientists said not to?
Afraid of China
For protection and to keep ahead of the Soviets
Protection from the British
Because he could
21
The first satellite's name?
Warsaw Pact
Cosmonaut
Sputnik
Laika
22
Eisenhower's nickname?
Ike
Dwight
Mamie
The General
23
What nation declared independence in the Middle East that caused problems?
Dubai
Syria
Israel
Jordan
24
Post-war America refers to which time period?
1841-1845
1941-1945
1945-1965
1985-present
25
Ike's Secretary of State?
Jack Kerouac
John Foster Dulles
Jonas Salk
RIchard Nixon
26
What is a weakened live virus?
Covid
A vaccine
A strain
Polio
27
Who took over the USSR when Stalin died?
Khrushchev
Gorbachev
Lenin
Trotsky
28
Created a vaccine to prevent against polio
Salt
Marco
Salk
Dewey
29
Early on what did we use to deliver a nuclear bomb to it's destination
Launchers
Airplanes
Nuclear Submarines
ICBM's
30
Who ran for the Democrats in 1952
Dwight Eisenhower
FDR
Woodrow Wilson
Adali Stevenson
31
What was formed by the US for our space program
NAACP
FBI
NASA
CIA
32
We built weapons, then the USSR built weapons, then we did, then them--we call this?
The gun show
The Cold War
Nuclear Fallout
An arm's race
33
Our first Hydrogen Bomb's nickname?
Melissa
Mindy
Mike
Matt
34
What party was Eisenhower from?
Democrat
Green
Republican
Independant
35
What is the Sunbelt
The Pacific North west
The Southwest
Mexico
The Northeast
36
What politician had their career ruined because of TV?
Truman
Eisenhower
McCarthy
Nixon
37
Over what canal did we almost have a major war
Erie Canal
Canal Street
Panama Canal
Suez Canal
38
This was created to spy on foreign governments?
NASA
Homeland Security
CIA
FBI
39
Radioactive particles from a nuclear bomb are called?
Nuclear Fallout
Warhead
Nukes
Bomb particles
40
What was developed to travel thousand of miles with nuclear weapons and strike close to its intended target?
Planes
Nuclear Subs
Tanks
ICBMs
41
Popular magazine that helped people keep track of TV shows?
US Weekly
TV Guide
People
National Enquirer
42
What country launched the first satellite?
China
USA
France
USSR
43
Who wrote the "Other America" about the plight of the poor
Jack London
Jonas Salk
Jack Kerouac
Michael Harrington
44
In computers, what replaced the vacuum tubes?
circuits
vacuum tubes
fuses
transistors
45
The Eisenhower Doctrine was protecting what area from Communism?
Pacific
Western Europe
Eastern Europe
Middle East
46
How did commercials change over time
Went to no commercials
went to 2 commercials per hour
went to many commercials from many companies
went to 1 commercial per hour
47
Which of these events did not occur during life in the post-war world?
Battle of the Bulge
generation gap
the launch of Sputnik
the largest population jump in history, a baby boom
48
What is going to the verge of war without actually going to war called?
Standing up to
Containment
Brinkmanship
Walloping
49
What country created the H-Bomb first?
China
USA
Great Britain
USSR
50
Was not a post-war president
Truman
Kennedy
Eisenhower
FDR