1950s Chapters 18&19

Question 1

What was Bikini Island?¿

Answer 1

Tested MIKE there; the hydrogen 💣

Question 2

What was Suburbia?¿ (besides a gr8 song by Troye Sivan)

Answer 2

Complexes with “🍪 cutter” homes, close proximity, some people say living there lead to loss of individuality, with most people in the suburbs and jobs in the city there were bad 🚗🚕🚓🚚 jams

Question 3

Fidel Castro

Answer 3

Leader of Cuba

Question 4

what was the HUAC?¿

Answer 4

Stood for- House.Un-American activities.committee

Part of 2nd Red Scare

•Before WWII we looked for communist influence in the New Deal
•After WW2 publicly proved Truman administration looking for communist
(No idea it was in notes)

Question 5

Who da heck was Whittaker Chambers?¿?

Answer 5

Time magazine senior editor who had been a communist. The lil snitch told Nixon about Alger Hiss (dude involved with pumpkin papers)

Question 6

Harry S.Truman

Answer 6

Creates the FEDERAL EMPLOYEE LOYALTY PROGRAMS. He also made LOYALTY BOARD which had 3 million investigated, 3,000 forced to resign from their jobs and 212 were fired.

Question 7

John.F.Kennedy (rip 😪)

Answer 7

President during Bay of 🐷s and Cuban middle crisis

Question 8

Problems with the 1952 election🤔

Answer 8

Concerns~
•Hot War (Asia)
•Cold War (everywhere but Asia)
• Fear of communism

Problems~
• Korea=stalemate (at a draw or tie) 
•Inflation 
•China lost to communism 
• corruption in Washington

Question 9

Dwight D.Eisenhower

(he is always dwight) lol #puns4lyfe

Answer 9

• Woohoo he becomes the 34th president😐🎉
• Name means “iron axe”
• Educated at West Point
• Wife went by “Mamie”
• Does something with Dept. of health, education & welfare
• Eisenhower Doctrine
• Brown vs Board
• served in both WW1 & WW2

Question 10

What were the 2 new states created in 1959?¿🤷🏼‍♀️

Answer 10

If anyone misses this I’ll cry myself to 😴

• Alaska❄️-January
• Hawaii🌺-August

Question 11

Sputnik waasss….

Answer 11

• Created by the soviets and launched as the 1st ever man made satellite on Oct 4,1957
• means “fellow traveler”

Question 12

Explorer 1

Answer 12

Created by the USA and was launched in 1958.

Was the 2nd attempt to launch a satellite into space by US

Question 13

Baby Boom (aka 👶🏼💥)

Answer 13

• Economy and family growth
• a 👶🏼 was born every 7 seconds in US
• Continued into mid 1960s

Question 14

McCarran Act

Answer 14

It was a law that made it illegal for Americans to engage in activities that would create a communist government
• communists couldn’t work in defense plants or own passports.

Question 15

Who was Alger Hiss?¿

Answer 15

• He was accused of spying and involved with the 🎃 papers.

* went to YAlTA with FDR

Question 16

Who was Richard Nixon?¿

Answer 16

•Representative from California (wonder if he knows Miss.Dorothy🤔)

• Member of the HUAC
• Eisenhower’s Vice President
• Platform~ attached democratic foreign policy
• promised to end war in Korea
• free captive people from communism
• “return honesty to gov”

Question 17

Who were the Hollywood 10?¿

Answer 17

A group of Hollywood writers/ or people involved in production who refused to answer if they had ever been apart of the Communist Party in the US

Question 18

Who was J.Edgar Hoover?¿

Answer 18

• He believed the 1/3 of the 🌎s population was part of a great communist conspiracy.
• Head of FBI
• Get name struck fear in many people

Question 19

What was MIKE (besides a name dummy)

Answer 19

Hydrogen 💣 tested at 👙 island

Question 20

Who was Adlai Stevenson?¿

Answer 20

• Democrat candidate who ran against Eisenhower
• knew it would be almost impossible to beat him
• wanted to talk sense into Americans

Question 21

What was another name for METO?¿

Answer 21

Baghdad Pact-1955
•Was a treaty 
•Involved GB,Turkey,Irag, Iran,Pakistan
• oil of middle ear becomes important 
•US does not join to avoid provocation

Question 22

What was the Mutual Defense Treaty?¿

Answer 22

To protect Taiwan from communist china

Made in 1954

Question 23

Pactomania in the 1950’s?¿

Answer 23

•Idea of Secretary of State Dulles
• reason was the fear of all of Asia falling to communism
Treaties~ 1st is Seato (US, GB and France)
mutual defense treaty,
Baghdad Pact- GB, Turkey, Irag, Iran, Pakistan NOT US
•John Foster?

Question 24

Foreign Affairs in the late 1950’s?¿

Answer 24

1958- USSR~ warns US to leave Berlin
• Middle East~ Nasser(Egypt), Anti-West feelings, Arms dead with USSR, Attack on Israel
•China~ mainland sells nationalist Chinese Islands in 1958
•Latin America~ Monroe Doctrine, often assisted oppressive give, Castro come to power in cube in 1958(evil m8)