Post War America, 1945-60, Key Individuals- unfinished hodder notes

Question 1

Who was the Soviet leader at the time when the second world war came to an end?

Answer 1

Joseph Stalin

Question 2

Which president was visibly ill in February 1945 and seemed to sympathise with Stalin

Answer 2

Franklin D Roosevelt

Question 3

Who was Roosevelt’s sucessor when he died on the 12th april 1945

Answer 3

Harry S Truman

Question 4

Who made the Iron Curtain speech

Answer 4

Winston Churchill

Question 5

Who was the Marshall Aid named after

Answer 5

The US Secretary of State, General George Marshall

Question 6

Who were the vast majority of UN forces under during the Korean War 1950-53

Answer 6

American Commander, General Douglas MacArthur

Question 7

Who was president 1953-61

Answer 7

Dwight Eisenhower

Question 8

In 1955 who did Stalin get succeeded by as leader of the soviet union

Answer 8

Nikita Khrushchev

Question 9

Who led the moderate Communists in Hungary in 1956

Answer 9

Imre Nagy

Question 10

After Imre Nagy was shot and removed, which more acceptable leader of the moderate hungarian communists took over

Answer 10

Janos Kadar

Question 11

What was the name of the man who caused the 1960 U2 spy plane crisis after he was flying over soviet land

Answer 11

Francis Gary Powers

Question 12

Who was the Egyptian leader in July 1956 who took control of the Suez Cana;

Answer 12

Gamal Abdel Nasser

Question 13

Who was the former president of China and the Chinese Nationalists who recieved US aid in their struggle against Mao and the Chinese Communist Party

Answer 13

Chiang Kai shek

Question 14

Who was the leader of the Chinese Communist Party

Answer 14

Mao Zedong

Question 15

Who were the Levitt houses named after

Answer 15

William Levitt

Question 16

Whose influential books on childcare sold over a million copies a year in the 1950s

Answer 16

Dr Spock

Question 17

Who asserted in the McCall’s magazine in 1954 that there is ‘simply no room for split-level thinking or doing when Mr and Mrs set their sights on a happy home, a host of friends and a bright future through success in HIS job.’

Answer 17

Mrs Dorothy Carnegie- Dale Carnegie’s wife

Question 18

Which feminist conducted research into the subsequent careers of former students of the exclusive all female smith college in 1957 and found that 89 per cent were homemakers

Answer 18

Betty Friedman

Question 19

Name the three newcoming stars who played the role of anti hero in 1940s and 50s hollywood cinema

Answer 19

James Dean
Paul Newman
Marlon Brando

Question 20

Which three more ‘proper’ actos did Dean, Newman, and Brando replace

Answer 20

Tyrone Power
Van Johnson
Robert Taylor

Question 21

Who did half of the population see take to the air as Peter Pan in a 1955 spectacular

Answer 21

Mary Martin

Question 22

Who broke the stereotypical mould of passive females being both peformer and producer in I love Lucy having a regular audience of 50mn

Answer 22

Comedienne Lucille Ball

Question 23

Name two major actors who were recruited to TV worldwide

Answer 23

Loretta Young
Ray Millard

Question 24

Who launched their Davy Crockett series in 1955, which had $300,000 in tie in merchandising

Answer 24

Walt Disney

Question 25

The first film to appeal specifically to a teenage demographic- Rebel Without a Cause- had the cult hero of who

Answer 25

James Dean

Question 26

Who erupted in 1956 onto the pop music scene, singing songs that broke all sales records, such as Heartbreak Hotel and Hound Dog

Answer 26

Elvis Presley

Question 27

Who was the psychologist in 1954 that published The Seduction of the Innocent which exposed the violence and brutality of comic books that sold in their millions.

Answer 27

Frederic Wertham

Question 28

Name two rebellious movies and who they were by

Answer 28

The Wild One (1953) by Laszlo Benedek
Rebel Without a Cause (19550 by Nicholas Ray

Question 29

Who played the leader in the 1953 film The Wild One

Answer 29

Marlon Brando