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2. A large corporation that owns a number of smaller unrelated companies

3. Conglomerate

4. With more money to spend and more products to buy, this was the preoccupation with purchasing material goods

5. Consumerism

6. A marketing strategy designed to encourage consumers to buy more goods

7. Planned Obsolescence

8. A company that offers similar products or services in many locations

9. Franchise

10. A disadvantage of corporate standardization in American business was that it discouraged this

11. Individuality

12. He was nominated by the Dixiecrats to run for president in the 1948 election

13. Strom Thurmond

14. President Harry Truman threated to do this to striking workers in an effort to keep strikes from crippling the US economy in late 1940s

15. Draft

16. The Beat Movement and Rock and Roll music were viewed as forms of this

17. Rebellion

18. He created the vaccine for polio

19. Dr. Jonas Salk

20. He was the first politician to skillfully use the new medium of television

21. Richard Nixon

22. The Eisenhower Doctrine was a warning to the Soviet Union against military intervention here

23. Middle East

24. They are best known for investigating Communism in the film industry

25. HUAC

26. The leader of Communist China

27. Mao Zedong

28. He was convicted of perjury after being accused of spying for the USSR

29. Alger Hiss

30. During the 1950s, the Republican Party hoped to support a balanced federal budget and counter Communism by relying on these/this

31. Nuclear weapons (brinkmanship)

32. What group was forced to retreat to Taiwan

33. The Chinese Nationalists

34. This battle was the last German offensive of WWII

35. Battle of the Bulge

36. These three leaders attended the Yalta Conference

37. Stalin, Churchill, FDR

38. He was the Supreme Commander of US forces in Europe during WWII

39. Dwight D Eisenhower

40. Of these 4 forms of government, which was not represented by the Axis powers: Militaristic Monarchy, Communist, Totalitarian, or Fascist

41. Communist

42. During this, food and supplies were flown to the people inside a blockaded West Berlin

43. Berlin Airlift

44. The height of this unprecedented population explosion in the US occurred in 1957

45. Baby Boom

46. Name of 1 st Satellite in space

47. Sputnik

48. He gave his famous “Iron Curtain” speech at Westminster College in Fulton, MO

49. Winston Churchill

50. He was the first DJ to play Rock and Roll music on the radio

51. Alan Freed

52. Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were members of this

53. American Communist Party