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Topic 5 (US History)
US History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Period of greatly increased birth rates in American | Baby Boom |
| American group that researched space travel | NASA |
| Name of plan that gave $13 billion to European countries to rebuild and strengthen democracy | Marshall Plan |
| Provided loans, college financial aid, and benefits to veterans who needed support after WWII | GI Bill |
| Fear that communists were working to destroy American life | Red Scare |
| Eisenhower plan that created highway system to connect the nation's cities | Interstate Highway Act |
| Name for global conflict between the United States and Soviet Union over 45 years | Cold War |
| New technology that changed American life and leisure time | television |
| New music style made popular by Chuck Berry and Elvis Pressley | Rock and Roll |
| The Soviet alliance with other communist states | Warsaw Pact |
| Law that outlawed the practice of closed-shop workplaces | Hartley Taft Act |
| Going to the edge of war to discourage | Brinkmanship |
| This was the dividing line between North and South Korea before the Korean War | 38th Parellel |
| Senator who led a "witch hunt" on potential communists in American government | Joseph McCarthy |
| Name for the southern states that many people migrated to in the 1950s | Sunbelt |
| Areas outside the cities that many Americans migrated to in the 1950s | Suburbs |
| The treaty that America joined about WWII | NATO |
| Policy to keep communism within its existing borders | containment |