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Question 1

Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer 1

Began in 1962, when spy planes found Russian nukes in Cuba

Question 2

_________ grew as Americans left the cities to buy their own homes

Answer 2

Suburbs

Question 3

Brown vs. Board of Education

Answer 3

led to end of segregation in public schools

Question 4

Abbreviation for buffer between North and South Korea

Answer 4

DMZ

Question 5

The _______ _________ doubled the birth rate between 1946-1964

Answer 5

Baby Boom

Question 6

Competition to build more powerful weapons

Answer 6

Arms Race

Question 7

Marshall Plan

Answer 7

Loaned 12 billion dollars to help rebuild Europe after WW2

Question 8

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

Answer 8

Tried and executed for the crime of passing nuke secretes to the Soviets

Question 9

Famously false headline ,” ________ DEFEATS TRUMAN”

Answer 9

Dewey

Question 10

Berlin airlift

Answer 10

Western allies delivered food and supplies to the people of West Berlin

Question 11

Warsaw Pact

Answer 11

Was in alliance between Soviet Union and its allies

Question 12

I like ______

Answer 12

Ike

Question 13

Dwight Eisenhower

Answer 13

Was elected POTUSin 1952

Question 14

__________ turn communist after Mao Zeodong lead a revolution in 1942

Answer 14

China

Question 15

America UN forces against communist aggression in this country from 1950 until 1953

Answer 15

Korea

Question 16

Castro

Answer 16

Overthrew the Cuban government in 1959 and set up communist dictatorship

Question 17

Truman Doctrine

Answer 17

Goal was to halt spread of communism

Question 18

Bay of Pigs Invasion

Answer 18

Unsuccessful attempt by the CIA to overthrow Castro

Question 19

Sputnik

Answer 19

First man made satellite launched by the Soviet Union

Question 20

Space race

Answer 20

The ultimate prize was landing on the moon first

Question 21

Truman dismissed General _________ father he advocated expanding he Korean War into China

Answer 21

McCarthur

Question 22

By the mid-1950s 75% of American homes had a __________ set.

Answer 22

Television

Question 23

McCarthy

Answer 23

Senator from Wisconsin accuser many Americans of being communist in the early 1950s

Question 24

Churchhill describe the barrier between the east and west as A _________ ____________.

Answer 24

Iron Curtain

Question 25

When you hear the air rate siren, head to the nearest _________ shelter

Answer 25

Fall out

Question 26

Berlin wall

Answer 26

Stood from 1961 until 1989 separating eastern and western sides of the city

Question 27

The US assisted the French in their fight against communist rebels in __________.

Answer 27

Vietnam

Question 28

Goal of the United Nations

Answer 28

Maintain peace and settle disputes

Question 29

When demand exceeds supply, it leads to a ________ of prices.

Answer 29

Inflation

Question 30

Acronym for the North Atlantic Treaty organization, which guarded against Soviet attacks

Answer 30

NATO

Question 31

Superpowers

Answer 31

Countries that are so strong that they can wield their influence around the globe

Question 32

Elvis

Answer 32

King of rock 'n roll and made his TV debut in 1956

Question 33

Standard of living

Answer 33

Measures how comfortable a nation's population lives

Question 34

NATO

Answer 34

Guarded against soviet attacks