’s American Culture Eisenhower’s America End of WW I Reconstruction
-This system of fast moving highways was promoted by the Eisenhower administration? Row Question
-Interstates Row Answer
-This term refers to the large numbers of children born in the decade after WW II? Row Question
-Baby Boom Row Answer
-He was able to develop a vaccine for the crippling polio virus and saved many thousands from a dreaded disease? Row Question
-Jonas Salk Row Answer
-Name the most popular TV show of the 1950’s? Row Question
-I Love Lucy Row Answer
-These social non-conformists disagreed with the materialism of most Americans and preceded the social rebellion of the hippies? Row Question
-Beatniks Row Answer
- This was the new style of music that was born in the 50’s? Row Question
-Rock n Roll Row Answer
-This term refers to the moving of large numbers of white Americans to the suburbs? Row Question
-white flight Row Answer
Row Question -Betty Freidan wrote this book about the unhappiness that many women felt in their roles as just homemakers?
-Feminine Mystique Row Answer
Row Question -He wrote an influential book about child care?
-Dr. Spock Row Answer
-This new form of entertainment filled many homes during the 1950’s? Row Question
-television Row Answer
-Name the slogan used by the Eisenhower campaign of 1952? Row Question
-I Like Ike Row Answer
-This was the practice taught to schoolchildren as a nuclear bomb drill? Row Question
-Duck and Cover Row Answer
-The Russian launch of this space satellite shocked the world in 1957? Row Question
-Sputnik Row Answer
-In order to catch up in the space race, this agency was created with the sole objective of space research? Row Question
-NASA Row Answer
-This was the name of the scandal between the US and USSR over a high-flying spy plane shot down over Russia? Row Question
-U-2 Row Answer
-What was the name of the plan that Lincoln had developed for the nation to follow? Row Question
-10% Plan Row Answer
-Name the group of people who wanted harsher punishment for the South? Row Question
-Radical Republicans Row Answer
-What rights did the 14th Amendment grant? Row Question
-citizenship and equal protection of the law Row Answer
-These are southerners who supported Union plans for Reconstruction? Row Question
-scalawags Row Answer
-These are Northerners who came south to participate in Reconstruction? Row Question
-carpetbaggers Row Answer
-This was the name of the very specific plan for peace designed by President Wilson? Row Question
-14 Points Row Answer
-Name the place where the peace conference for WW I met? Row Question
-Versailles Row Answer
-This was the last of the specific goals presented by Wilson which called for a world organization to keep the peace? Row Question
-League of Nations Row Answer
-Which nation was forced to accept the blame for WW I and to pay huge damages? Row Question
-Germany Row Answer
-Which US leader specifically led a campaign to amend or disapprove the treaty? Row Question
-Henry Cabot Lodge Row Answer