APUSH 23 & 24
Demonstrated how to protect oneself in case of nuclear attack
Duck and Cover
King of Rock and Roll
Elvis Presley
The couple executed for spying
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
Ended segregation in the armed forces
Executive Order 9981
Why was it inevitable that the United States and the Soviet Union would eventually come into conflict after the war ended?
Historically, both nations had never shared long-term interests or values.
Case that frightened many into testifying before HUAC
Hollywood Ten
Developed to deliver powerful nuclear weapons
ICBMs
Site of the amphibious landing in South Korea
Inchon
During the 1950s, American teenagers:
Increased in number and were often perceived to be alienated.
What made the Army-McCarthy Hearings unusual for American television programming of the 1950s?
It was deeply political and controversial.
Developed the polio vaccine
Jonas Salk
Accused the military of hiding Communists in the US
Joseph McCarthy
Ordered the invasion of South Korea in June 1950
Kim Il Sung
The program based on the belief that economic prosperity would keep countries free and democratic
Marshall Plan
The Housing Act of 1949:
Reinforced the concentration of poverty in non-white urban neighborhoods.
Why did France and other Europeans understand NATO as a form of double containment?
The pact would guard them against Soviet aggression as well as against the resurgence of a powerful Germany.
After World War Il, the automobile:
altered the American landscape.
Japan:
A and B Was aided by the United States in rebuilding its postwar industrial base to establish a strong economic counter to communism in the Far East AND Was under the control of the supreme commander Douglas MacArthur from the end of the war until 1948.
Used to describe an America overly focused on wealth
Affluent
Teenage Rock and Roll show hosted by Dick Clark
American BandStand
1945 through 1964 increase in the birth rate
Baby Boom
Rejected the norms of American society
Beatniks
A plan that provided crucial supplies to the British, French, and US occupied zones
Berlin Airlift
Supreme Court decision to desegregate public schools
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, KS
Under Eisenhower and Dulles, the United States developed a nuclear strategy for defense based on
Building more conventional and nuclear weapons.
William Levilk, with the help of the Gl Bill, gave many Americans the opportunity to:
Buy a home.
Conducted secret actions against foreign targets
CIA
Which statement about the Korean conflict is FALSE?
Chinese troops threatened to enter the conflict, but never did.
The era of high tensions between the world's superpowers
Cold War
The Truman Doctrine:
Committed the United States to fighting communism anywhere.
The ideas expressed in this passage are an example of
Containment.
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles's policy of massive retaliation:
Declared that any Soviet attack would be countered by a nuclear attack
Recommended using atomic weapons in the Korean War; dismissed by President Turman
Douglas MacArthur
1959 came to power in Cuba and established a dictatorship
Fidel Castro
Helped veterans make a successful return to civilian life
GI Bill
Key architect of the containment policy
George Kennan
A group that focused on the thread of Communism in the US
HUAC
What made Elvis such a popular celebrity?
He brought the rhythms and sexually provocative movements of black musicians to white audiences.
The 1960 presidential debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon:
Highlighted the impact of television on political campaigns.
The symbolic representation of a sharp division in Europe
Iron Curtain
Played for the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team
Jackie Robinson
President of Teamsters that disappeared
Jimmy Hoffa
Believed only the threat of nuclear war would stop of the Soviets; coined the word "Brinkmanship"
John Foster Dellus
The spy who worked on the Manhattan Project
Klaus Fuchs
In 1949, Mao Zedong:
Led a successful communist revolution in China.
Military alliance formed in 1948
NATO
First man to walk on the moon
Neil Armstrong
Emerged as the leader of the Soviet Union after Stalin's death
Nikita Khrushchev
Dangerous product of nuclear explosion
Nuclear Fallout
The Marshall Plan:
Offered economic assistance to noncommunist governments.
Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected president in 1952 in part because he:
Pledged to use nuclear weapons in the Korean War
The policy of "containment" can best be described as:
Preventing the spread of communism worldwide
Southern port city of Korea; defended by UN troops
Pusan
In the 1952 presidential campaign, Richard Nixon' Checkers speech:
Reflected the growing importance of television in American life
President Truman's civil rights plan called for all of the following EXCEPT:
Reparations.
Why were American suburbs of the 1950s so heavily segregated?
Residents, brokers, and realtors dealt in contracts and mortgages that barred the sale to non-white residents.
Most likely why did the U.S. Supreme Court not order the immediate implementation of its ruling in Brown V. Board of Education in 1954?
Some justices on the Court feared the outbreak of widespread violence with such a bold ruling.
Soviet satellite launched in 1957
Sputnik
The demographic changes that resulted in the development of housing projects like the one in the image could be described as
Suburbanization
The president of South Korea's Republic of Korea
Syngman Rhee
Which long-held U.S. territory was granted independence in 1946?
The Philippines.
After World War II, the only nation that could rival the United States was:
The Soviet Union.
The charges against which of the following organizations led to the downfall of Joseph McCarthy in 1954?
The army.
What inspiration did Martin Luther King Jr. gain from Mahatma Gandhi?
The idea of peaceful civil disobedience
Which event did President John F. Kennedy blame on the failures of the Eisenhower administration?
The launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik
Operation Dixie was:
The postwar union campaign in the South.
The Berlin Blockade was:
The reaction by the Soviet Union to the establishment of a separate currency in western Berlin's occupied zones.
Why did nearly 5 million workers walk off their jobs over the course of 1946?
The removal of price controls resulted in a drop in workers' real income.
The shopping mall was the inevitable result of what institution?
The suburb.
Why did American policymakers agree to spend billions of dollars on the economic recovery of Europe under the Marshall Plan?
They were afraid that if they did not help with the recovery, western European nations might fall into the Soviet sphere of influence.
How did the United States respond to Joseph Stalin's blockade around Berlin?
Truman ordered that supplies be brought to Berlin via an airlift
Operation Wetback:
Was a military operation that rounded up illegal aliens found in Mexican-American neighborhoods for deportation.
Ngo Dinh Diem:
Was backed by the United States in his decision to ignore the Geneva Accords' plan for elections in Vietnam.
The Montgomery Bus Boycott:
Was sparked when Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her scat to a whine man.
After World War I, most working women:
Were concentrated in low-paying, nonunion jobs
Coined the term "Iron Curtain"
Winston Churchill
A community of inexpensive homes in the suburbs
Levittowns
Famous red headed television actress and comedian
Lucille Ball
Led the Chinese Communists
Mao Zedong
Between 1946 and 1960, the American gross national product:
More than doubled, and wages increased.
Refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus
Rosa Parks
An object put into orbit around the Earth
Satellite
Capital of South Korea
Seoul
The "Iron Curtain":
Separated the free West from the communist East
What did Eleanor Roosevelt do of particular significance several years after the war ended?
She chaired the committee that drafted the United Nations "Universal Declaration of Human Rights."
Why did auto manufacturers and oil companies vault to the top ranks of corporate America in the 1950s?
The consumer demand for the automobile boomed in this decade
Governor Orval Faubus responded to the court-ordered desegregation of Central High School:
With defiance, refusing to comply and allowing violence to break out.
During the 1950s, television:
Became an effective advertising medium.
President Truman's plan for America
Fair Deal
Ambitious building project of the 1950s
Interstate Highways