Post-War America Review Game
1. Name the 49th and 50th states admitted into the United States of America.
2. Who were the two ‘50s pop culture icons on the ‘50s Icons Extra Credit?
3. The Servicemen’s Readjustment Act was better know as the . . . ?
4. President Truman’s domestic agenda was called the . . .?
5. The ingenious solution to the post-War housing shortage was the planned residential
community of . . .?
6. Name one of the two political parties that broke off from the Democratic Party in 1948.
7. Name the 1950s feminist writer.
8. What was the “rat race” in the 1950s?
9. What was the name of the first satellite to orbit the earth?
10. Name one of the programs of the Great Society.
11. Explain what is meant by the term, the “Johnson Treatment”.
12. What was given as the main reason why the Great Society failed?
13. Which high school was integrated in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957?
14. Who was the governor of Arkansas when integration of public schools began?
15. Name two of the organizations that led protests against racist policies?
16. What significant civil rights integration event happened one year prior to Truman’s
integration of the military?
17. What did the 24th Amendment do?
18. Name two of the significant events of 1968.
19. What, according to Tom Hayden, was the paradox of nuclear power?
20. What was the single factor that George Kennan believed was the cause of the students’
disenchantment with government?
21. What was one significant statistic concerning women working in the late ‘60s and ‘70s?
22. What is the nickname for the fact that women rarely reach the highest levels in corporate
America?
23. What was President Nixon’s strategy for getting the U.S. out of the Vietnam War?
24. Where did a non-violent student protest turn violent, causing the death of 4 students?
25. What was the name of the one American soldier who was convicted in the My Lai massacre?
26. What was the term Nixon used to try and justify why he should not turn over the subpoenad
tape recordings?
27. What did CREEP stand for?
28. How many U.S. Presidents have been impeached? Name them.
29. What is it called when there are rising prices and economic stagnation?
30. Name either of the two journalists who “broke” the Watergate scandal?
31. How did the Supreme Court “check” the power of the executive in the Watergate scandal?
32. What percentage of marriages ended in divorce in the 1970s?
33. Where did a new crisis surface over the bussing in of black students to white schools?
34. What was the Twinkie defense?
35. Jerry Falwell founded an organization that used Protestant religious leaders to back
conservative candidates and issues.
36. What is the nickname for supply-side economic theories?
37. What was the name of the Republican that supposedly defeated Harry Truman in the 1948
election?
38. Who was the Chief Justice during the 1960s?
39. Who were the participants in the first televised presidential debate?
40. What was the landmark case that overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson doctrine of separate
but equal?
41. What was the nickname for young urban professionals of the 1980s?
42. What was the name of the program that brought millions of Mexicans to work on farms and
ranches?
43. What was Eisenhower’s term for his ‘middle of the road’ political beliefs?
44. Who was the doctor who eventually developed the polio vaccine?
45. Name one of the popular television characters pictured on pages 698 – 699.
46. Name one of the groups that were left out of the prosperity of the 1950s.
47. Other than Brown v. Board, what was the name of one of the landmark cases of the Warren
Court?
48. What was the name of the commission that conducted a study of the problems for inner city
blacks?
49. What is the nickname for the region with many older manufacturing plants?
50. What “first” happened with the 1984 presidential election?