58033327 | Marshall Islands | Site of the first test of the Hydrogen Bomb | 0 | |
58033328 | Integrated Circuit | Made advances in computer technology possible | 1 | |
58033329 | John Foster Dulles | Believed only the threat of nuclear war would stop the Soviets | 2 | |
58033330 | Beat Generation | Rejected many norms of American Society | 3 | |
58033331 | Nuclear Fallout | Dangerous product of a nuclear explosion | 4 | |
58033332 | Summit | A meeting of government heads | 5 | |
58033333 | Air Force | Grew substantially in the 1950s because of advances in military technology | 6 | |
58033334 | Levittown | Community of inexpensive homes built in the suburbs | 7 | |
58033335 | Operation Alert | Proved that a nuclear attack would leave millions dead | 8 | |
58033336 | CIA | conducted secret actions against foreign targets | 9 | |
58033337 | "Affluent Society" | Used to describe an America overly focused on its own wealth | 10 | |
58033338 | Satellite | An object put in orbit around the Earth | 11 | |
58033339 | Jonas Salk | developed the Polio vaccine | 12 | |
58033340 | Nikita Khrushchev | Emerged as the new leader of the Soviet Union after Stalin's death | 13 | |
58033341 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | Promised to travel to Korea and end the war if elected | 14 | |
58033342 | Interstate Highway System | Ambitious building project of the 1950s | 15 | |
58033343 | ICBMs | developed to deliver powerful nuclear weapons | 16 | |
58033344 | SEATO | Organization created to resist Communist aggression in Asia | 17 | |
58033345 | Richard Nixon | made the Checkers speech to apologize for accepting money | 18 | |
58033346 | Brinkmanship | going to the brink of war without actually getting into war | 19 | |
58033347 | Massive retaliation | use of overwhelming force against the Soviets to settle a serous conflict | 20 | |
58033348 | Warsaw Pact | Military alliance between Soviet dominated countries of Eastern Europe | 21 | |
58033349 | Eisenhower Doctrine | The right of the US to help, on request, against communist expansion | 22 | |
58033350 | Sputnik | First artificial satellite | 23 | |
58033351 | NASA | Agency responsible for exploring outer space | 24 | |
58033352 | Duck and Cover | Educational film designed to protect school age students in case of a nuclear explosion | 25 | |
58033353 | Laika | First animal to orbit the Earth | 26 | |
58033354 | Lucille Ball | Star of famous TV comedy "I Love Lucy" | 27 | |
58033355 | Sunbelt | area where people started to settle because of its warmer climate | 28 | |
58033356 | Albe and Baker | First animals to survive a space flight (US flight) | 29 |
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