USA 1920-73 - POST WAR

Question 1

1941:

Answer 1

1941: Lend Lease begins

Question 2

1945:

Answer 2

1945: WW2 ends

1945: Poland & N. Korea turn
Communist

Question 3

1947:

Answer 3

1947: HUAC investigates
Hollywood

Question 4

1948:

Answer 4

1948: Alger Hiss investigation

Question 5

1949:

Answer 5

1949: the USSR drops its Atomic
Bomb.

Question 6

1950:

Answer 6

1950: Senator McCarthy starts his
claims

Question 7

1951:

Answer 7

1951: Rosenberg Trial

Question 8

1954:

Answer 8

1954: McCarthy’s downfall

Question 9

1955:

Answer 9

1955: “Rebel without a cause”
released

Question 10

1961:

Answer 10

1961: JFK becomes president

Question 11

1963:

Answer 11

1963: Equal Pay Act

1963: JFK Assassinated

1963: LBJ becomes president

Question 12

1964:

Answer 12

1964: Civil Rights Act

1964: Economic Opportunity Act

1964: Development Act

Question 13

1965:

Answer 13

1965: Voting Rights Act

1965: Medicaid and Medicare

Question 14

1966:

Answer 14

1966: The Model Cities Act

Question 15

1968:

Answer 15

1968: Civil Rights Act

Question 16

American
Dream

Answer 16

The belief that anyone who came to America could achieve good things

Question 17

Arms race

Answer 17

A competition between countries

Question 18

Baby boom

Answer 18

The dramatic increase in babies
born after World War 2

Question 19

Cold War

Answer 19

The increasing tensions

Question 20

Consumerism

Answer 20

A society based around purchasing

Question 21

Containment

Answer 21

The policy of containment of communism in Asia and Europe

Question 22

Honeymoon
period

Answer 22

A period after Kennedy was shot that Johnson used to pass a lot of legislation (like the Civil Rights Act)

Question 23

Levittown

Answer 23

Suburban towns that were built away from the cities for baby boomers.

Question 24

New Frontier

Answer 24

Kennedy’s domestic policy

Question 25

Great Society

Answer 25

Johnson’s domestic policy

Question 26

Second Red scare

Answer 26

Fear of Communism in the 1950s

Question 27

Rebel without a Cause

Answer 27

A film with James Dean that encouraged rebellious teenagers

Question 28

Senator McCarthy

Answer 28

Joseph McCarthy, famous for accusing members of government of being communists.

Question 29

Blacklist

Answer 29

To be banned