Post War America, 1945-60, Key Individuals- unfinished hodder notes Flashcards
Who was the Soviet leader at the time when the second world war came to an end?
Joseph Stalin
Which president was visibly ill in February 1945 and seemed to sympathise with Stalin
Franklin D Roosevelt
Who was Roosevelt’s sucessor when he died on the 12th april 1945
Harry S Truman
Who made the Iron Curtain speech
Winston Churchill
Who was the Marshall Aid named after
The US Secretary of State, General George Marshall
Who were the vast majority of UN forces under during the Korean War 1950-53
American Commander, General Douglas MacArthur
Who was president 1953-61
Dwight Eisenhower
In 1955 who did Stalin get succeeded by as leader of the soviet union
Nikita Khrushchev
Who led the moderate Communists in Hungary in 1956
Imre Nagy
After Imre Nagy was shot and removed, which more acceptable leader of the moderate hungarian communists took over
Janos Kadar
What was the name of the man who caused the 1960 U2 spy plane crisis after he was flying over soviet land
Francis Gary Powers
Who was the Egyptian leader in July 1956 who took control of the Suez Cana;
Gamal Abdel Nasser
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
Chiang Kai shek
Who was the leader of the Chinese Communist Party
Mao Zedong
Who were the Levitt houses named after
William Levitt
Whose influential books on childcare sold over a million copies a year in the 1950s
Dr Spock
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.’
Mrs Dorothy Carnegie- Dale Carnegie’s wife
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
Betty Friedman
Name the three newcoming stars who played the role of anti hero in 1940s and 50s hollywood cinema
James Dean
Paul Newman
Marlon Brando
Which three more ‘proper’ actos did Dean, Newman, and Brando replace
Tyrone Power
Van Johnson
Robert Taylor
Who did half of the population see take to the air as Peter Pan in a 1955 spectacular
Mary Martin
Who broke the stereotypical mould of passive females being both peformer and producer in I love Lucy having a regular audience of 50mn
Comedienne Lucille Ball
Name two major actors who were recruited to TV worldwide
Loretta Young
Ray Millard
Who launched their Davy Crockett series in 1955, which had $300,000 in tie in merchandising
Walt Disney
The first film to appeal specifically to a teenage demographic- Rebel Without a Cause- had the cult hero of who
James Dean
Who erupted in 1956 onto the pop music scene, singing songs that broke all sales records, such as Heartbreak Hotel and Hound Dog
Elvis Presley
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.
Frederic Wertham
Name two rebellious movies and who they were by
The Wild One (1953) by Laszlo Benedek
Rebel Without a Cause (19550 by Nicholas Ray
Who played the leader in the 1953 film The Wild One
Marlon Brando
