Mrs. Hagerman Social Studies

Question 1

Baby boom

Answer 1

The significant rise in the amount of babies born from 1945-1960

Question 2

Sunbelt

Answer 2

Southern and western states that offer warm climate all year

Question 3

Elvis

Answer 3

A famous rock ‘n’ roll star

Question 4

Jonas Salk

Answer 4

A doctor who invented a vaccine for polio

Question 5

Beats or beatniks

Answer 5

Young people who acted rebellious and wrote strangely

Question 6

Mao Zedong

Answer 6

Chinese communist revolutionary who was the founder of the peoples republic of china

Question 7

Redscare

Answer 7

A radio broadcast about North Korea invading South Korea on June 26,1950

Question 8

Sputnik

Answer 8

The worlds first artificial satellite launched into orbit by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957 as part of the soviet space program

Question 9

Arms Race

Answer 9

A competition between nations for superiority and the development and accumulation of weapons, especially between the U.S. and former Soviet Union during the Cold War.

Question 10

Cold War

Answer 10

An ongoing political rivalry between the United States, Soviet Union, and there respective allies that developed after WW2.

Question 11

NATO

Answer 11

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union.

Question 12

United Nations

Answer 12

An organization dedicated to resolving international conflicts.

Question 13

Y’all’s conference

Answer 13

Allied leaders known as the big three—Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United States, Winston Churchill of Great Britain, and Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union—met in the Soviet city of Yalta to discuss plans for peace.

Question 14

Marshal Plan

Answer 14

Western Europe received more than $13 billion in U.S. loans and grants for European economic recovery between 1948 and 1952.

Question 15

Truman Doctrine

Answer 15

A policy of providing aid to help foreign countries fight communism.

Question 16

SDS

Answer 16

a society of college students where the members protested against the draft, as well as companies that made weapons used in Vietnam.

Question 17

Hippies

Answer 17

members of a culture who emphasizes individual freedom, nonviolence, and community sharing.

Question 18

Richard M. Nixon

Answer 18

a president that promised to restore order to American societ and bring “peace with honer,” but instead expanded the war by approving having bomb raids on Cambodia and Laos and sent troops to Cambodia to attack communist bases.

Question 19

Henry Kissinger

Answer 19

He was the national security advisor that helped Nixon create the Vietnamization plan.

Question 20

Vietnamization

Answer 20

a plan to pull U.S. troops from Vietnam and have the south Vietnamese army take over all the fighting.

Question 21

26th amendment

Answer 21

frederal voting age was changed from 21 to 18.

Question 22

War Powers Act

Answer 22

requirement that the president must have congressional approval before committing U.S. troops to an armed struggle.