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Truman to Nixon Voc.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Professional jobs such as Clerical, sales and advertisement, and management. | White Collar |
| Young writers who rejected social conformity. | Beatniks |
| Things that are very popular during a certain time period. | Popular Culture |
| President from 1974 – 1977, the un-elected President. | Gerald Ford |
| Trying to build bigger, better weapons faster than your enemy. | Arms Race |
| The Soviet Union created this in response to NATO. | Warsaw Pact |
| A husband and wife who were charged with selling secrets about the Atomic Bombs to Russia, tried and executed with little proof at the time. | The Rosenberg Trials |
| The government created and maintained new highways across the nation, leading to a rise in franchises such as Motels, fast food restaurants, and gas stations. | Interstate Highway Act |
| Became the 33rd president, when FDR died of a stroke. He ended WW2 and started the Cold War when he dropped the Atomic bombs. | Harry Truman |
| President Kennedy's legislative program, which included proposals to provide medical care for the elderly, to aid education, and to expand the space program. | New Frontier |
| These men were the first to walk on the moon in 1969. | Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin |
| New style of music - Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, and Little Richard were pioneers. | Rock and Roll |
| This was the first man the United States put into orbit around the earth. | John Glenn |
| House of Un-American Activities - investigated organizations thought to be hiding or supporting Communists. | HUAC |
| North Atlantic Treaty Organization - Based on the concept of COLLECTIVE SECURITY each member pledged to defend every other member if attacked. | NATO |
| AKA The Servicemen Readjustment Act - gave soldiers money for education, housing, and job training. | G.I. Bill |
| The National Aeronautics and Space Administration. America’s 1st space program. Established during the Space Race. | NASA |
| The Motto of the United States changed from “E Pluribus Unum” to this to signify we had religious freedom. | In God We Trust |
| President from 1963-1968. Took over the presidency when JFK was assassinated. | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| Based on the fear of Communists infiltrating the U.S government once again. | 2nd Red Scare |
| LBJ’s programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, Head Start, and Job Corps developed to fight the war on poverty. | Great Society |
| This was the 1st election ever broadcast on Television, showing that people in America think looks are important - Nixon v. Kennedy. | Election of 1960 |
| A government employee accused of spying and found guilty of perjury. | Alger Hiss |
| The name given to people that accuse others of being Communist with no actual proof. | McCarthyism |
| The differences in opinions, values, fashion, music styles, etc. between younger people and older people. | Generation Gap |
| A race to be the first to put a man on the moon. NASA was started and math and science became an important part of school curriculum. | Space Race |
| Senator who claimed to have a list of Communists working in the Government - Never produced proof. | Joseph McCarthy |
| Provided aid to war torn countries in Europe. | Marshall Plan |
| 1st time many people owned their own homes | Housing Boom |
| When people are very similar to each other, seen especially in the 1950’s. | Social Conformity |
| The policy to keep Communism from Spreading. | Containment |
| President between 1960-1963, assassinated in Dallas by Lee Harvey Oswald. | John F. Kennedy |
| Released in 1997 proved that the Rosenbergs were in fact guilty. | Venona Papers |
| Leader of the FBI who sent agents to investigate and arrest suspected groups of Communists. | J. Edgar Hoover |
| Men working for Nixon’s re-election campaign got caught in the Democratic headquarters making Nixon look like a crook. | Watergate |
| One of the country’s earliest suburbs in New York with “cookie-cutter” houses (mass produced houses that look alike). | Levittown |
| The Environmental Protection Agency, created by Nixon to protect the environment. | EPA |
| Invented the Polio vaccine. | Jonas Salk |
| Form of government where everything is common to all people. The government owns everything and the individual has no right to anything. | Communism |
| Labor Jobs such as mechanic, millwright, and construction. | Blue Collar |
| President from 1968 - 1974. Elected on the promise that he would pull the U.S. out of the War with “Peace with Honor.” | Richard Nixon |
| After World War II soldiers came home from the war the number of birthrates were the largest in history. | Baby Boom |
| a law requiring the Fish & Wildlife Service to list species of plants and animals that are threatened with extinction. | Endangered Species Act |
| Provided military aid to Turkey and Greece to help fight Communism. | Truman Doctrine |
| Neighborhoods outside of cities where all the houses looked the same. | Suburbs |
| The first artificial satellite launched into space by the Soviet Union. | Sputnik |
| Ford pardon’s Nixon of any crimes he may or may not have committed. | Nixon Pardon |
| Created under Kennedy to send volunteers into poor countries to help them create programs and hopefully keep them from turning to Communism. | Peace Corps |
| A new appliance that connected all Americans. | T.V. |
| A general during WWII, who became president during the 1950’s when the U.S. was prosperous once again. | Dwight Eisenhower |
| A list of Actors, writers, and directors who were said to be Communist and could not be hired. | Hollywood Blacklist |
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