Name ______
Period ______
Matching: match the letter with the correct definition
1. ______In 1960, the Soviets shot down a U-2 spy plane
and captured this pilot, the incident greatly
damaged U.S.-Soviet relations.
2. ______this was formed in 1947 to collect information
about—and spy on—foreign governments.
3. ______many Hungarian citizens sought the return of
this former leader who was a Communist but
favored a more democratic system of government.
4. ______when the final agreement between France and
Vietnam divided Vietnam this Communist leader
took control of the north.
5. ______He rose to power in Egypt and sought to unite
and strengthen the Arab Nations, toward this
goal, he was willing to seek the support of
the Soviet Union.
6. ______senator from California who had made his name
as a strong anti-Communist, vice presidential
running mate of Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952.
7. ______the diplomatic art of going to the brink of
war without actually getting into war.
8. ______emerged as the new leader of Soviet Union after
Joseph Stalin’s death, he remained a Communist
dictator and a bitter rival to the United States.
9. ______meeting of the heads of government
10. ______president of the new anti-Communist nation,
South Vietnam, in 1955, who angered his own
people with his harsh leadership.
11. ______Secretary of State who wanted to revise the
nation’s approach to communism, rather than
merely containing it, he spoke of rolling it
back.
12. ______this was a military alliance with the Soviet-
dominated countries of Eastern Europe.
13. ______pledge that the United States would use
overwhelming force against the Soviet Union,
including nuclear weapons, to settle a serious
conflict.
14. ______the United States and its anti-Communist allies
created this new organization and agreed to work
together to resist Communist aggression.
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15. Even with the end of the fighting in Korea, the ______
continued to rage throughout the 1950s and to dominate Eisenhower’s
presidency.
16. At the U.S.-Soviet summit, Eisenhower proposed an “______”
treaty where both the Soviets and the Americans could fly over each other’s
territory to learn more about the other’s military abilities.
17. In January 1957, President Eisenhower issued the ______,
this declared the right of the United States to help, on request, any nation
in the Middle East trying to resist armed Communist aggression.
18. In 1951, the states had ratified the twenty-second ______,
this set a 10-year limit on the number of years a president could serve.
19. In March 1953 longtime Soviet leader ______died, his
death brought an end to a terrible period in Soviet history, he had been
responsible for the deaths of millions of his own citizens.
20. In 1954 France lost a bloody struggle to keep control of its Southeast Asian
colony in ______, the French sought peace with the rebels
who had been fighting to oust them, among these rebels were many Communists.
21. Richard M. Nixon’s outstanding performance in the so-called
______saved his spot on the Republican ticket.
22. The United States sent ______into Soviet airspace
to inspect their military facilities, they carried advanced spying equipment
and flew at altitudes thought to be out of reach of Soviet defenses.
23. On the campaign trail, Eisenhower sharply criticized the Democrats for their
handling of the ______, peace talks had been
dragging on for months, and soldiers were dying by the thousands.
True or False: circle T if the statement is true, circle F if the statement is false
24. T or F To stand against the Soviets, John Foster Dulles favored building
more nuclear weapons.
25. T or F The Warsaw Pact was a tool that helped anti-communists solidify
control in Eastern Europe.
26. T or F The Soviet Union rejected President Eisenhower’s “open skies”
treaty.
27. T or F President Eisenhower agreed that Vietnamese voters should choose
for themselves what kind of government they would have.
28. T or F The Middle East was another region troubled by Cold War tensions.
Matching: match the letter with the correct definition
1. ______the Truman administration created this to
help educate and prepare the public for
nuclear emergencies.
2. ______an international contest between countries
seeking a military advantage over each other.
3. ______On October 4, 1957 the Soviets launched this
first-ever artificial satellite.
4. ______Congress in 1958 passed this which provided
hundreds of millions of dollars for education
in the United States.
5. ______In 1963, this treaty with the Soviet Union
limited nuclear testing.
6. ______this weapon got its power from the fusing
together of hydrogen atoms, it created a
blast hundreds of times more powerful than
an atomic bomb.
7. ______In 1954 the U.S. Navy launched this first
nuclear-powered submarine.
8. ______In 1958, this new agency took charge of the
United States programs for exploring outer
space.
9. ______The FCDA staged this test of the nation’s
Civil defense program in 1955 to explore the
possible effects of a nuclear attack on major
American urban areas.
10. ______could travel thousands of miles and strike
very close to their intended targets, they
could also deliver powerful nuclear weapons.
11. ______streams of radioactive particles produced by
nuclear explosions, exposure can cause
burns and increase the risk of future health
problems, such as cancer and birth defects.
12. ______an object that orbits around the earth
True or False: circle T if the statement is true, circle F if the statement is false
13. T or F November 1, 1952 American scientists tested an H-bomb, the blast
made the island on which it had been placed simply vanish.
14. T or F Early on, the United States focused on submarines as the means of
delivering nuclear weapons, as a result, the U.S. Navy grew
substantially in the 1950s.
15. T or F Throughout the 1950s, the United States did lag behind the Soviet
Union in the number of weapons it possessed.
16. T or F The environmental dangers from nuclear fallout can last for many
years.
17. T or F It became the job of women, according to the FCDA, to prepare the
home for emergency—and to recognize the warning signals of a
nuclear attack.
18. T or F President Truman discouraged the development of the H-bomb because
he was concerned with the potential devastation it would bring.
19. T or F President Eisenhower increased reliance on nuclear weapons,
this shift helped lead to the development of the policies of
brinkmanship and massive retaliation.
20. T or F Even though the first American H-bombs were small their
destructive power was massive.
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21. The arrival and advance of nuclear weapons forced American leaders
to reconsider the way the United States built its military
______.
22. While the United States at first relied on aircraft to carry its nuclear
weapons, scientists were hard at work developing ______
that could be equipped with these weapons.
23. Nuclear power plants in the United States began to produce ______
for homes and businesses in 1957.
24. Educational films such as ______, which featured a
friendly turtle named Bert, taught schoolchildren techniques for protecting
themselves from the deadly effects of a nuclear blast.
25. The United States and the Soviets again had roughly the same
______each side, however, remained
concerned that the other would gain an advantage.
26. While scientists were exploring the atom’s destructive power, they were also
learning to use it for other purposes, in 1954, the U.S. Navy launched the
first nuclear-powered ______.
27. While the public learned to live with the fear of nuclear attack, President
Eisenhower used part of his farewell address in 1961 to inform them of a new
danger: the “______”.
28. The ______launches caused great concern in the
United States, to many Americans, it signaled that the Soviets had surpassed
American scientists in terms of technical skill and knowledge.
29. The American nuclear arsenal was constantly on the ______,
this helped ensure that no enemy would be able to destroy the American
ability to launch an attack.
Fill-in-the-Blank: fill in the blank with the correct word from the word bank
1. ______were another group that quickly recognized the
promise of television, the combination of picture and sound gave it more
persuasive potential than radio.
2. The shift from the North to the South and West was dramatized in the late
1950s when two New York ______teams, the Brooklyn
Dodgers and New York Giants, moved to California.
3. One field in which television had an immediate impact was ______,
America’s leaders quickly learned that TV had great power to change their
relationships with the voters.
4. In the 1940s, researchers began to build the first of what we might recognize
today as ______, these devices used electricity to
perform complicated calculations.
5. Television’s first big hit was the ______,
starring comedian Milton Berle, which later became the Milton Berle Show.
6. The U.S. population was beginning a shift in settlement toward the warmer
southern and western portions of the United States, the so-called
______.
7. On several occasions in the 1950s, ______looked into the
effects of violent content on young television viewers, to address the
concern, the TV industry adopted its own voluntary standards.
8. As the cost of producing entire TV programs rose, advertisers shifted to
buying just one-or-two minute segments during shows to sell their products,
the TV ______was born.
9. The hit show ______got its appeal from another
cultural movement of the 1950s: rock and roll music.
10. Organizing the Information: put the letter for the information in the chart
Matching: match the letter with the correct definition
11. ______this system was designed to be a network of
high-speed roads for interstate travel, all
built on the same design.
12. ______television actor who captured the hearts of
the nation in I Love Lucy.
13. ______scientist who developed a new polio vaccine
in 1952
14. ______Suburban development in New York that started
in 1947, the homes in the community were
affordable for families in the postwar years.
15. ______these devices worked much like vacuum tubes
but with several advantages, they were smaller
and did not break as often, led to improvements
of all kinds of electronics from radios to
televisions.
16. ______a single piece of material that includes a
number of transistors and other electronic
components, also known as computer chips.
17. ______His great success in television earned him the
nickname “Mr. Television”.
18. ______a preparation that uses a killed or weakened
form of the germ to help the body build
defenses against that germ.
19. ______to build the first computers, scientists used
thousands of these, glass and metal devices
that helped form the complicated electronic
workings of the machines.
20. ______this was the first computer available in 1951
for commercial use, earned fame for predicting
the outcome of the 1952 presidential election
based on early returns.
True or False: circle T if the statement is true, circle F if the statement is false
21. T or F By 1959 more than 40 million American homes had at least one television
set.
22. T or F In the 1950s the wide availability of home air conditioning helped make
the move to the Sunbelt practical.
23. T or F The televised 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings gave the public confidence in
Joseph McCarthy and his anti-communist actions.
24. T or F Congress took no formal action to limit television content during the
1950s.
25. T or F A complete UNIVAC system could weigh 30,000 pounds and cost up to $50,000
or more.
26. T or F In the 1950s the United States had clearly emerged as the world’s greatest
economic power.
27. T or F In his book The Organization Man, John Kenneth Galbraith observed the push
toward “sameness” and the increasing loss of individuality among the
growing class of business workers in the 1950s.