Economy 1950s Domestic 18 EOQish Chapter Testy
A large corporation that owns a number of smaller unrelated companies
Conglomerate
With more money to spend and more products to buy, this was the preoccupation with purchasing material goods
Consumerism
A marketing strategy designed to encourage consumers to buy more goods
Planned Obsolescence
A company that offers similar products or services in many locations
Franchise
A disadvantage of corporate standardization in American business was that it discouraged this
Individuality
He was nominated by the Dixiecrats to run for president in the 1948 election
Strom Thurmond
President Harry Truman threated to do this to striking workers in an effort to keep strikes from crippling the US economy in late 1940s
Draft
The Beat Movement and Rock and Roll music were viewed as forms of this
Rebellion
He created the vaccine for polio
Dr. Jonas Salk
He was the first politician to skillfully use the new medium of television
Richard Nixon
The Eisenhower Doctrine was a warning to the Soviet Union against military intervention here
Middle East
They are best known for investigating Communism in the film industry
HUAC
The leader of Communist China
Mao Zedong
He was convicted of perjury after being accused of spying for the USSR
Alger Hiss
During the 1950s, the Republican Party hoped to support a balanced federal budget and counter Communism by relying on these/this
Nuclear weapons (brinkmanship)
What group was forced to retreat to Taiwan
The Chinese Nationalists
This battle was the last German offensive of WWII
Battle of the Bulge
These three leaders attended the Yalta Conference
Stalin, Churchill, FDR
He was the Supreme Commander of US forces in Europe during WWII
Dwight D Eisenhower
Of these 4 forms of government, which was not represented by the Axis powers: Militaristic Monarchy, Communist, Totalitarian, or Fascist
Communist
During this, food and supplies were flown to the people inside a blockaded West Berlin
Berlin Airlift
The height of this unprecedented population explosion in the US occurred in 1957
Baby Boom
Name of 1 st Satellite in space
Sputnik
He gave his famous “Iron Curtain” speech at Westminster College in Fulton, MO
Winston Churchill
He was the first DJ to play Rock and Roll music on the radio
Alan Freed
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were members of this
American Communist Party