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Question 1

Atom Bomb

Answer 1

Truman used this because otherwise we would have to invade Japan

Question 2

Manhattan Project

Answer 2

Code name for atom bomb

Question 3

Los Alamos, NM

Answer 3

Location of secret lab for atomic bomb

Question 4

Marshall Plan

Answer 4

America’s main program for rebuilding Western Europe and opposing communism after WWII

Question 5

NATO

Answer 5

Non-communist nations formed this group to halt the spread of communism

Question 6

Truman Doctrine

Answer 6

Policy that declared US would supply any nation with economic and military aid to prevent its fall to communism- originally aimed towards Greece

Question 7

Korean War

Answer 7

1950- war against communist North Korea

Question 8

McCarthyism

Answer 8

Caused by increased fear of communism

Question 9

Cuban Revolution

Answer 9

Castro became leader of Cuba and allied with the Soviet Union

Question 10

Bay of Pigs

Answer 10

CIA attempted to overthrow Castro

Question 11

Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer 11

When Kennedy did not intervene in Cuba with military, Soviets began process of locating nuclear missiles in Cuba; resolved when we agreed to remove our missiles from Turkey

Question 12

Vietnam War

Answer 12

Cold War conflict over communism that tried to protect South Vietnam from Communist North Vietnam

Question 13

Tet Offensive

Answer 13

Viet Congs’ most dangerous campaign; led Americans to question whether we could win the war= end of American support

Question 14

Baby Boom

Answer 14

Increase in births from 1945-1964

Question 15

Levittown

Answer 15

America’s first master planned communities build for baby boomers generation

Question 16

Interstate Highway Act

Answer 16

Connected American cities with highways, need because baby boomers were living in suburbs

Question 17

Kennedy/ Nixon debates

Answer 17

Changed shape of American politics to include TV

Question 18

Sputnik

Answer 18

Soviet launch of first satellite, America feared we were losing the space race, which ramped up teaching of science and math

Question 19

Jackie Robinson

Answer 19

First black to play in MLB, led to integration of professional sports

Question 20

Harry Truman’s integration order- 1948

Answer 20

Integrated the military and government jobs; led to later civil rights laws in 1960s

Question 21

Brown v. Board of Education

Answer 21

Said that segregation laws denied African American students equalities of 14th amendment

Question 22

“Letter from a Birmingham Jail”

Answer 22

Written to white religious leaders

Question 23

“I Have a Dream”

Answer 23

Asked for racial peace and harmony