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| 5613818241 | Dixiecrats | Southerners who protested Truman's civil rights policy and form State's Rights Democratic Party | 0 | |
| 5613825605 | Fair Deal | Truman's economic program which extended FDR's New Deal | 1 | |
| 5613833654 | Cold War | state of hostility w/o direct military conflict between US and Soviet Union | 2 | |
| 5613849419 | McCarthyism | attacks by Senator Joseph McCarthy and others on people suspected of being Communists in early 1950s | 3 | |
| 5613855460 | Suburbs | residential town or community near a city | 4 | |
| 5613858440 | Baby Boom | sharp increase in U.S birthrate during 50s | 5 | |
| 5613864001 | Brown v Topeka Board of Education | 1954 Supreme Court case where Supreme Court ruled "seperate but equal" education for students was unconstitutional | 6 | |
| 5613871393 | Blacklist | list of 500 Hollywood entertainers who were not allowed to work on films because of alleged Communism ties | 7 | |
| 5613877116 | Eisenhower Doctrine | Commitment to defend Middle East against attack by any communist country | 8 | |
| 5613884069 | Planned Obsolescence | designing of products to wear out or become outdated quickly in order to be replaced frequently | 9 | |
| 5613889795 | Consumerism | preoccupation with purchasing of material goods | 10 | |
| 5613891842 | Franchise | business that bought right to use parent company's name and methods | 11 | |
| 5613896309 | Containment | block of another nation's attempt to spread its influence | 12 | |
| 5613899428 | Brinkmanship | practice of threatening an enemy with massive military retaliation for any aggression | 13 | |
| 5613906861 | Sputnik | world's first artificial satellite launched by Soviet Union which also began the Space Race | 14 | |
| 5613913571 | Warsaw Pact | military alliance with Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellites | 15 | |
| 5613922467 | United Nations | international peacekeeping organization to which most nations in world belong to promote world peace, security, and economic development | 16 | |
| 5613930737 | Beat Movement | social & artistic movement of 50's; stressed nonconformity and self expression | 17 | |
| 5613938874 | Iron Curtain | used by Winston Churchill to describe imaginary line that separated Communist Eastern Europe from Free Western Europe | 18 | |
| 5613947578 | U2 Incident | downing of US spy plane and capture of its pilot by Soviet Union | 19 | |
| 5613951587 | CIA | government agency that uses spies to gather international information and carry covert operations to weaken unfriendly government | 20 | |
| 5613958637 | HUAC | congressional committee that investigated Communist influence | 21 | |
| 5613966132 | Hollywood Ten | 10 witnesses that refuse to cooperate with HUAC investigation of Hollywood | 22 | |
| 5613972037 | Termination Policy | US' plan to give up responsibility for Native American tribes | 23 | |
| 5613980709 | SCLC | organization by Martin Luther King Jr. to work for civil rights through nonviolent means. | 24 | |
| 5614009276 | Mao Zedong | head of Chinese Communists | 25 | |
| 5614011460 | Chiang Kai-shek | head of Chinese Nationalists | 26 | |
| 5614017688 | Winston Churchill | gave Iron Curtain speech | 27 | |
| 5614021170 | Alger Hiss | State Department accused of spying for Soviets | 28 | |
| 5614024774 | Ethel and Julius Rosenberg | Husband and wife executed for giving Soviets the secret to making atomic bomb | 29 | |
| 5614035221 | Douglas Macarthur | U.S General during most of Korean War | 30 | |
| 5614044160 | Matthew Ridgway | took over UN troops after MacArthur during Korean War | 31 | |
| 5614047225 | Fidel Castro | leader of Communist Cuba | 32 | |
| 5614056704 | Jackie Robinson | first African American allowed to play baseball in the major Leagues | 33 | |
| 5614060375 | Dr. Jonas Salk | developed a vaccine for the crippling disease polio in 50s | 34 | |
| 5614064685 | Dr. Benjamin Spock | many parents raised their children based on his guidelines | 35 | |
| 5614072717 | Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care | name of Spock's book | 36 | |
| 5614077455 | Elvis Presley | King of Rock and Roll | 37 | |
| 5614086626 | Chuck Berry. Little Richard. Haley and the Comets. The Coasters. | Some other Rock n Roll Musicians | 38 | |
| 5614092426 | Thurgood Marshall | lawyer that handled Brown V Board of Education for NAACP | 39 | |
| 5614095994 | Rosa Parks | was arrested for not giving up her seat on bus to white man | 40 | |
| 5614099461 | Nikita Khrushchev | leader of Soviet Union after Stalin's death | 41 |
