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| 5551550360 | The "kitchen debate" | A classic Cold War confrontation over the meaning of freedom - a debate between Nixon and Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev that took place during the Moscow exhibition. | 0 | |
| 5551552569 | World Bank | A specialized agency of the United Nations that makes loans to countries for economic development, trade promotion, and debt consolidation. Its formal name is the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. | 1 | |
| 5551550361 | International Monetary Fund | An international organization of 183 countries, established in 1947 with the goal of promoting cooperation and exchange between nations, and to aid the growth of international trade. | 2 | |
| 5551552570 | GATT | A United Nations agency created by a multinational treaty to promote trade by the reduction of tariffs and import quotas. | 3 | |
| 5551552571 | Bretton Woods System | Named for a conference held at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, in 1944, this system provided the foundation for postwar economic globalization, including the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund; based on the promotion of free trade, stable currencies, and high levels of capital investment. | 4 | |
| 5551561561 | Pentagon | A 7,000-page top-secret United States government report on the history of the internal planning and policy-making process within the government itself concerning the Vietnam War. | 5 | |
| 5551561562 | Defense Department Conglomerates | The federal department responsible for safeguarding national security of the United States. (Daniel Ellsburg) | 6 | |
| 5551559809 | Collective bargaining | Method whereby representatives of the union and employer determine wages, hours, and other conditions of employment through direct negotiation. | 7 | |
| 5551564574 | Treaty of Detroit | A five year contract with the United Auto's Workers and General Motors in 1950. It protected the automakers from annual strikes but gave the workers adjustments of cost of living wages. This also extended to other automakers like Ford and Chrysler and was used as a model for other industries. | 8 | |
| 5551564575 | The "affluent" worker | Book by David Lockwood, Frank Bechhofer, Jennifer Platt, and John Goldthorpe. The affluent workers studied are employed in Luton, a town which benefited faster and more consistently than almost any other in Britain from the economic progress of the 'fifties and early 'sixties. | 9 | |
| 5551567712 | William Levitt | Created Levittown -- the first "cookie cutter" suburb -- was an American real estate dealer. His innovations of providing affordable housing popularized the type of planned community building later known as suburbia. | 10 | |
| 5551567713 | FHA | The Federal Housing Administration gave both the construction industry and homeowners a boost by insuring bank loans for building new houses and repairing old ones | 11 | |
| 5551570165 | VA | (Veterans administration) A Federal agency that administers benefits provided by law for veterans of the armed forces. | 12 | |
| 5551570166 | Sun Belt | U.S. region, mostly comprised of southeastern and southwestern states, which has grown most dramatically since World War II. | 13 | |
| 5551570167 | Interstate Highway System | A system of limited access roadways that connects all major cities in the US. The system was designed to give troops faster routes to get to destinations across the US in the event of an attack on the US. The system's main purpose now is travel by civilians. | 14 | |
| 5551575211 | National Interstate and Defense Highway Act | 1956 act that provided funds for construction of 42,500 miles of roads throughout the United States. | 15 | |
| 5551578923 | "downwinders" | a person living downwind of a nuclear test site or reactor, where the risk from fallout or radiation leaks is greatest. | 16 | |
| 5551575212 | Billy Graham | An Evangelist fundamentalism preacher who gained a wide following in the 1950s with his appearances across the country and overseas during and after the war. He would commonly appear at religious rallies and allowed people to connect with and appreciate religion even more, causing thousands to attend his sermons. His prominence was so large that in 1996, he was also awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. | 17 | |
| 5551578980 | The Power of Positive Thinking | Book written by Rev. Norman Vincent Peale; offered simple how-to course in personal happiness. | 18 | |
| 5551578924 | FCC | (Federal Communications Commission) regulates the television and radio industry, grants licenses to television and radio stations, and blocks monopolies. | 19 | |
| 5551586844 | Baby Boom | A cohort of individuals born in the United States between 1946 and 1964, which was just after World War II in a time of relative peace and prosperity. These conditions allowed for better education and job opportunities, encouraging high rates of both marriage and fertility. | 20 | |
| 5551586845 | Dr. Spock's Baby & Child Care | The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care written by Benjamin Spock, is a manual on infant and child care first published in 1946. The book, along with Dr. Spock, attained fame almost instantly, selling 500,000 copies in its first six months. | 21 | |
| 5551584820 | Betty Freidan & The Feminine Mystique | With her book new ground by exploring the idea of women finding personal fulfillment outside of their traditional roles. The book became a sensation—creating a social revolution by dispelling the myth that all women wanted to be happy homemakers. She encouraged women to seek new opportunities for themselves. | 22 | |
| 5551584821 | Alan Freed | A disc jockey who began playing a unique style of music at the time called "rhythm-and-blues" on a Cleveland radio show, who gained a wide following from black and white teenagers due to his on-air attitude and style, gaining a wide following for this new genre that evolved into rock-and-roll. | 23 | |
| 5551584822 | Elvis Presley | "the King of Rock n' Roll" appeared on the Ed Sullivan show in 1955. He recorded at Sun Records. Honorably served in the Army when he was drafted. Home in a former church (Graceland) located in Memphis, Tennessee. | 24 | |
| 5551592704 | Jackson Pollack | US painter and abstract expressionist known with his drip art. | 25 | |
| 5551592705 | Bebop | Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker were instrumental in creating this, it was a genre of jazz. | 26 | |
| 5551592706 | Displaced Persons Act of 1948 | Authorized for a limited period of time the admission into the United States of certain European displaced persons for permanent residence, and for other purposes after World War II (1948). | 27 | |
| 5551595789 | McCarran-Walter Act | 1952 bill that limited immigration from everywhere except Northern and Western Europe and stated that immigration officials could turn any immigrant away that they thought might threaten the national security of the United States. | 28 | |
| 5551595790 | Bracero Program | United States labor agents recruited thousands of farm and railroad workers from Mexico. The program stimulated emigration for Mexico. | 29 | |
| 5551598588 | "Operation Wetback" | A government program to roundup and deport as many as one million illegal Mexican migrant workers in the United States. The program was promoted in part by the Mexican government and reflected burgeoning concerns about non-European immigration fo America | 30 | |
| 5551598589 | Underclass | A group in society prevented from participating in the material benefits of a more developed society because of a variety of social and economic characteristics. | 31 | |
| 5551600775 | Jackie Robinson | The first African American player in the major league of baseball. His actions helped to bring about other opportunities for African Americans. | 32 | |
| 5551600795 | Brown v Board of Education 1954 | 1954 - The Supreme Court overruled Plessy v. Ferguson, declared that racially segregated facilities are inherently unequal and ordered all public schools desegregated. | 33 | |
| 5551603643 | Thurgood Marshall | American civil rights lawyer, first black justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. Marshall was a tireless advocate for the rights of minorities and the poor. | 34 | |
| 5551606038 | Little Rock Nine | In September 1957 the school board in Little rock, Arkansas, won a court order to admit nine African American students to Central High a school with 2,000 white students. The governor ordered troops from Arkansas National Guard to prevent the nine from entering the school. The next day as the National Guard troops surrounded the school, an angry white mob joined the troops to protest the integration plan and to intimidate the AA students trying to register. | 35 | |
| 5551606039 | Rosa Parks | United States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery (Alabama) and so triggered the national civil rights movement (born in 1913). | 36 | |
| 5551606040 | Martin Luther King Jr. | U.S. Baptist minister and civil rights leader. A noted orator, he opposed discrimination against blacks by organizing nonviolent resistance and peaceful mass demonstrations. He was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. Nobel Peace Prize (1964). | 37 | |
| 5551608319 | Montgomery Bus Boycott | In 1955, after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a city bus, Dr. Martin L. King led a boycott of city busses. After 11 months the Supreme Court ruled that segregation of public transportation was illegal. | 38 | |
| 5551608320 | Southern Christian Leadership Conference | An organization founded by MLK Jr., to direct the crusade against segregation. Its weapon was passive resistance that stressed nonviolence and love, and its tactic direct, though peaceful, confrontation. | 39 | |
| 5551610819 | Greensboro Four | These four college students started a nonviolent sit in at Woolworth department store in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1960. | 40 | |
| 5551550362 | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee | Involved in the American Civil Rights Movement formed by students whose purpose was coordinate a nonviolent attack on segregation and other forms of racism. | 41 |
